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reeboo··on Yes I Will Read Ulysses Yes
This is how I cured my dyslexia.
reeboo··on Making a trading Gameboy: A pocket exchange and algo trading platform
What resources would you recommend for learning more about market-making?
reeboo··on Papermill: Parameterizing, executing, and analyzing Jupyter Notebooks
It's a thin wrapper around notebooks. Does it really need more features? Not saying that it couldn't, but it is feature complete for what its job is.
reeboo··on Papermill: Parameterizing, executing, and analyzing Jupyter Notebooks
As an MLE who comes from backend web dev, I have flip-flopped on notebooks. I initially felt that everything should be in a python script. But I see the utility in notebooks now.

For notebooks in an ML pipeline, I find that data issues are usually where things fail. Being able to run code "up to" a certain cell and create plots is invaluable. Creating reports by creating a data frame and displaying it as a cell is also super-handy.

You say, "dial some logic in", which is begging the wrong question (in my experience, at least). The logic in ML is usually very strait forward. It's about the data coming into your process and how your models are interacting with it.

reeboo··on Ask HN: Machine learning engineers, what do you do at work?
Underrated comment. At my place of work, I find this to be a huge part of the MLE job. Everyone knows R but none of the cloud tools have great R support.
reeboo··on Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution
https://www.wweek.com/news/city/2024/02/22/city-will-scrap-2...
reeboo··on Internet Brands CEO on RTO: "We aren't asking or negotiating at this point."
I honestly can't tell, is this real or a comedy sketch?
reeboo··on Ask HN: Do you homeschool?
> Dunning-Kruger effect

https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2022/04/08/the-dunning-k...

reeboo··on Students are submitting answers saying “I am an AI language model”
How would that work in a public school setting? Seems like there are too many kids and not enough teachers/time to implement this across all subjects.

If you are right, and oral exams become the best way to evaluate student learning, then I could see smaller private schools becoming more popular as a correlation.

reeboo··on Quantum physics falls apart without imaginary numbers
Here is fun, and rather short, book on the history of complex numbers that I liked -- https://www.amazon.com/Imaginary-Tale-Princeton-Science-Libr...
reeboo··on Quantum physics falls apart without imaginary numbers
So does algebra.
reeboo··on SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas
Destin is a national treasure.
reeboo··on SFUSD's delay of algebra 1 has created a nightmare of workarounds
I believe George Bush II tried this with No-Child-Left-Behind. Turns out everyone leaves the poor schools and then you have funding issues.
reeboo··on Home Prices Fell in February for First Time in 11 Years
Its counter intuitive at first glance, but in my area (west coast) it is actually the renter-friendly voters who scare off development. Too many rental protections lead to developers opting for development in red-er pastures.
reeboo··on Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers after earlier cuts
I did not mean that, but now I have a movie to watch! Thanks!
reeboo··on Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers after earlier cuts
I was hoping it was a reference to foraging after the apocalypse.
reeboo··on Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers after earlier cuts
Okay, I'll bite. What does this mean?
reeboo··on AI chatbots are having their “tulip mania” moment
Projecting our humanity onto these models by assuming they are "lying" is a mistake. These models are not thinking, thus, they cannot lie.
reeboo··on The Retreat of the Amateur Investors
Imagine you invested $100 into my company. Let's say my company specialized in doing absolutely nothing, as in, the company had a bank account and produced/sold nothing. In our little toy world where you always make money on investments, two weeks in I returned $150 to you (you've made $50).

This brings up questions like "where did that extra $50 come from", but maybe you get the point of the original comment now.

reeboo··on The Retreat of the Amateur Investors
Because ideas that don't add value should not be pursued, else you are wasting resources.

Imagine how dysfunctional the world would be if you could never loose money investing in something.

reeboo··on Ggplot Implementation in Python
I find the gallergy for plotnine to be lacking content. In contrast, I can usually use seaborn's gallery to figure out what I need to do.
reeboo··on American Data Privacy and Protection Act
I chuckled at the thought of U.S. judges being forced to have opinions on software design principles.
reeboo··on Quantum Algorithm Implementations for Beginners
"... are shorthands for the vectors encoding the two basis states of a two dimensional vector space." How many beginner's know what a basis of a vector space is -- how about unitary operators -- Eigen stuff?

The word "beginner" does a disservice to the level you need to be at to start wadding into quantum stuff. At a minimum, you better not be a beginner of linear algebra!

There is, imo, no better way to discourage people than saying this stuff is for "beginners".

reeboo··on Compile NumPy Functions to Their Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) Equivalents
Last I checked FHE was computationally infeasible for any realistic work load. Has that changed?
reeboo··on NSA's Tips to Keep Your Phone from Tracking You
Which API did you use to do this? I looked into this a while ago but it looked like Android wasn't allowing programmatic access to airplane mode.
reeboo··on Einstein’s Thought Experiments
"You see, Einstein had a problem with it because it seems to conflict with the speed of light limit in Special Relativity. We know today that this is not the case, quantum mechanics does not conflict with Special Relativity because no useful information can be sent between entangled particles." -- So how does quantum communication work? I thought it leveraged entanglement to convey information such that it became untamperable.
reeboo··on Mailvelope
Seems very similar to what https://priv.ly/ was trying to do.
reeboo··on Edward Snowden wants to come home but says U.S. won’t give him a fair trial
He wants the jury in his trail to be made aware of jury-nullification.
reeboo··on Edward Snowden says he would like to return home
He wants the jury in his trail to be made aware of jury-nullification.
reeboo··on The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs
For me its a linear view of how I got somewhere when I'm doing exploratory research. Usually a tree of tabs (I use side tabs) will start with a google search, then go to a site, then another site, then another. When I find something interesting and think "how did I get here again?" and I can just glance at my open tabs.

This context is useful if I get sidetracked/distracted by a coworker, so I can retrace why I was looking at a certain page.

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