glomgril

linguistics FTW!

If you are out of shape, do one set of pushups once a day (however many feels comfortable even if you have to cheat a bit). Start small, even just a couple, and gradually increase the reps over time. You will be blown away by the results after even 2-3 months.

Probably works best if you are scrawny to start with but I imagine any out of shape person would benefit.

Given it takes less than 1min per day, everyone has time for something like this.

Hell of a side project. As deranged as it is awesome.

Curious, what kinds of clients pay money for data science consulting? And does it feel like a sustainable business moving forward?

Hold on to your butts...

TBH I disagree. In some fields it has become something of a convention, especially when the thing you're pluralizing is a variable or some other mathematical expression. For example I might write $x_1,x_2,...,x_n$, and then refer to the sequence as "the $x$'s". Happens all the time in professional journals by authors who know very well what the prescriptive rules of written English are. It is just easier to read this way.

What about instead of turning a floor of an office building into a handful of luxury apartments, turn it into several dozen SROs? (genuine question -- I am curious if the same economic unfeasibility concern would apply equally for very small SRO-style units)

Not sure why so many people balk at the comparison of having a dog versus having a kid. You don't need some deep philosophical reason for either: humans have lived alongside dogs for thousands of years, and humans don't need a justification to reproduce any more than a dog would. We're animals, we make babies.

Brings back fond memories of fiddling with TikZ for hours instead of writing my dissertation

Even among fans, early Kanye was never considered a great rapper (although he was always considered an elite producer). It always felt clear to me that he'd be around and doing big things in the music industry for many years, but I kinda assumed he'd be much more behind the scenes and focusing on production.

let me know if you find out

not all coding is software engineering man

> you cannot account for the personalities that sit behind these titles/roles.

This is an important point, and should be more obvious than it is. Projects succeed or fail more as a function of individual personalities than of whatever their job titles are. Easy to forget given that people who share a job title are usually treated as interchangeable components of the machine (at least in big companies and at least in my experience).