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shankysingh··on Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines
My working methodology has been , LLM output is a jumping point and to use my experience, knowledge and basic understanding to N+1 it.

So for bleeding edge stuff it works out well or in places where documentation is not great like Apache Flink.

shankysingh··on Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines
Thats very intersting, If I may ask was it from professional projects or personal projects?
shankysingh··on Cosmology with Geometry Nodes
The research paper has more details https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad68ff
shankysingh··on Google is phasing out support for ClaimReview markup in Google Search.
Google search phasing out claim Review markup support that powers its fact checking
shankysingh··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024)
Heya,

I am also interested but have not been able to find your email ID.

My email is shashank DOT personal@gmail.com and github : https://github.com/shashanksingh

shankysingh··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2024)
SEEKING WORK | UK (GMT) | REMOTE OR HYBRID

Github : https://github.com/shashanksingh Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/singhshashank Reach out : shashank.personal+hn at gmail.com Blog : https://medium.com/fanduel-life/how-do-we-keep-our-70-data-e...

I am experienced Data Tech-lead , with track record of deploying Data products like recommenders, Realtime leaderboards, Inventory Forecasting, Streaming Platforms for Companies like Skyscanner, Fanduel and Faasos ( Rebel Food) etc.

Technologies : Python, Trino/Presto, DBT, Airflow, Kafka, PySpark, Databricks DeltaLake, AWS(Cloud), DevOps, Microservices, Docker, AWS ECS, Apache Spark, Fast API, Kubernetes(EKS), AWS EMR, PostgresSQL( At Billion Scale )

For further inquiries or collaboration opportunities, please feel free to reach out to me at shashank.personal at gmail.com

shankysingh··on Ask HN: Did anybody apply for UK Global Talent visa? How did it go?
Specailly because public transport is amazing, living outside city is doable, while drawing comparable salary.
shankysingh··on Canonical Offering Blender Support
IIRC Movie Next Gen (available on netflix) creator's– Tangent Animation used blender extensively

source : https://lesterbanks.com/2018/09/rigging-next-gen-feature-fil...

shankysingh··on Ask HN: How do old (30plus) software engineers remain excited about the field?
I meant more in terms of anyone who has been in software industry long enough , 30+ in terms of age was just a safe boundary.
shankysingh··on Ask HN: How do old (30plus) software engineers remain excited about the field?
Thanks this is inspirational .
shankysingh··on Ask HN: How do old (30plus) software engineers remain excited about the field?
My problem has been are we playing catchup with the latest and greatest of tech, instead of solving problem's without rebuilding foundation every few years. At least in library/framework sense.
shankysingh··on Ask HN: How do old (30plus) software engineers remain excited about the field?
Sorry about the usage of "old".

I meant more 30+ without any qualifiers , would try wording it better next time :)

shankysingh··on Ask HN: How do old (30plus) software engineers remain excited about the field?
sorry about that, I will edit it.
shankysingh··on Ask HN: How do old (30plus) software engineers remain excited about the field?
Sorry, I am in 30+ range. Just was wondering what everyone is else doing to stay excited about Software engineering because I was struggling with it.

Probably I could have better worded my question.

shankysingh··on Ask HN: How do old (30plus) software engineers remain excited about the field?
sorry, what's FOH ?
shankysingh··on The State of FOSS in India
I started my career with Geodesic, handheld division, which @atul was overlooking as VP , IIRC .

Was really a great experience interacting with him and other stalwarts of FOSS at thats time. I owe my first job to him and Pradeepto :)

shankysingh··on Facebook Joins the Blender Development Fund
Although Not for games, but for movies Tangent Animation comes to mind.

source: https://www.blendernation.com/2018/08/20/next-gen-blender-pr...

shankysingh··on Amnesty International India Halts Its Work in India Due to Government Reprisal
The Prashant Bhushan case : https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/24/world/asia/india-lawyer-t...
shankysingh··on Patreon Raises $90M Series E at $1.2B Valuation
Just a side-note: just discovered your channel, pretty interesting content.
shankysingh··on Effective Airflow Development
Testing Pipeline in Airflow is bit pain, but great expectation makes runtime pipeline validation much easier. https://greatexpectations.io

For unit/integration tests we ended up doing lot of Docker in Docker setup.

shankysingh··on Huawei CEO: After September 15 No More Kirin Chips
I don't have enough knowledge of chip's logistics so my less informed 2 cents would be, thinking from a business perspective, if eventual dominance of chip supply-chain was in cards, Chinese businesses would have had done it regardless of ban existed or not.

So, this ban gives Taiwan and US businesses some breathing space to keep that lead. How its leveraged, is upto the governments and business's .

shankysingh··on Speeding up function calls with lru_cache in Python
oh sorry , somehow I missed it :)
shankysingh··on Speeding up function calls with lru_cache in Python
Thanks for article

Just a side note: with Fibonacci + caching it solidly become Dynamic programming problem so Time complexity reduces from quadratic to o(n), IIRC .

There is a whole class of problems where recursion + memoization(caching) = Top Down Dynamic programming , The other way to Increase performance and actually reduce call stack in these class of problems including Fibonacci would be Bottom Up Dynamic Programming

Some gists I found on it https://gist.github.com/trtg/4662449

shankysingh··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2016)
Location:Mumbai, India

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, Ruby on Rails, DevOps [Linux/AWS], Data Analytics [Python], Mysql, Apache Storm

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/singhshashank

Email:shashank DOT personal AT gmail.com URL :

* Fighting Child Trafficking with Technology http://www.helpingfaceless.com

* http://machinelearningmastery.com/project-spotlight-face-rec...

* Work Covered by globalpost http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific...

shankysingh··on Ask HN: Any movies that changed your life?
Jurassic Park, its not the movie in the literal sense, but the fact that it was my first move I ever saw with my family in a big theatre. So every frame of it "wow" experience for me at that time.

Also "Man from Earth", It was my first movie that made me realize sci-fi genre is lot more than fancy cgi.

shankysingh··on Amazon API Gateway – Build and Run Scalable Application Backends
I almost got an heart-attack because I skimmed over the date :)
shankysingh··on Tell HN: Kevin and I are doing HN office hours Friday from 11 am to 1 pm PDT
Thanks man. Sorry I jumped the gun and posted way earlier :)
shankysingh··on Tell HN: Kevin and I are doing HN office hours Friday from 11 am to 1 pm PDT
We ( www.helpingfaceless.com ) are trying to help vulnerable children using technology and create a viable business model around it.

Short term : Create basic infrastructure for data collection and reporting, manage in cloud, and charge small subscription fee for it.

Long term : Combat child trafficking using face recognition technology and data analytics.

we use B.O.T ( build operate transform ) process to build the infrastructure for organizations and law enforcement agencies .

Biggest problems we are facing : 1. Lack of impact investment 2. Long Sales cycle

shankysingh··on Ask HN: Any good audio podcasts?
Love Radiolab I would add 1. Startalk (http://www.startalkradio.net/ ) 2. How stuff works ( http://www.howstuffworks.com/hsw-podcast.htm )

to the list

shankysingh··on The 20 Deadliest Events in Human History
And on top of that 1 in every 200 men are direct line descendants of him. He did, essentially pivot history of humanity in his favour.

src http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/08/1-in-200-men-...

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