jmcdowell

I was quite interested in one of the CEOs from a premier league team who runs StarLizard which is a private gambling syndicate focused on sports. They're making a lot of money off building models to predict sport outcomes.

I'm not sure if you'd discount that as obviously thats completely different than 1 person sitting in their bedroom placing bets but just thought I'd raise it incase this level of sports betting interests you.

From what I understand they place their bets in Asian markets rather than the markets consumers in the west would.

If anyone is a fan of podcasts and this subject, there is a really good podcast series called 'Ghost in the Machine' which does a deep dive into motor doping, how it could be occurring, the current state of technology to enable it and also looking into Femke van den Driessche's case which is mentioned in the article.

I'd recommend listening to the first hour of the podcast this is taken from just as he was more candid than I thought he would be.

Zuckerberg at points brings up how the EU as is very defensive and has taken social media companies to court for the sum of 30 billion (never mentioning why). He laments how the US government need to be more protective of US tech companies overseas specifically naming the EU. When talking about Dana he says how he will explicitly help with them work with difficult foreign governments (be that through how he did it with the UFC or his relationship with the new administration).

It sounded quite like they're preparing to more confrontational with the EU and he at one point mentions how he thinks the new admin is going to protect them more with foreign countries.

Out of interest, do you find many working on software projects at hacker spaces? Each one I've looked at online seems to have more of a focus on hardware, electronics, metal/wood working with little mention of software. The caveat is that I've only really looked at UK based ones so this may be regional.

I've been trying to find a space that has a similar energy as my old university CS lab. There was a bit of a perfect time in my final year, whereafter 2+ years most people seemed to know each other and at the same time everyone was specialising in their degree. So you could walk into the lab and find people working deep in their own game engine code, others would be working on ML models and others may be working on mobile apps or websites. But with a sense of overall camaraderie and sharing of what you're working on and why.

I suppose it just sounds like I'm describing something like a WeWork but when I've attended those they seem much more employee focused and I rarely saw employees of different companies talk to each other.

I also realise that some of what I describe is often fulfilled by talking to others at your workplace, I'm fully remote so I am missing out on that part.

If anyone knows of anything similar to what I describe above in or near London feel free to reach out to the email in my profile!

Many of the engineers I've worked with in the UK carry EE degrees (I'm unsure how different this is to electronic and computer engineering). It's certainly not seen as a bad thing or a reason to not get interviews compared to a pure CS degree from my experience.

Yea I'm in the same boat, seen a recommendation for AirVPN which seems very affordable and easy to use but then also those recommending to set your own up, is this doable without much knowledge in the area of VPNs?

Any idea who would have "126 million images along with their accompanying Exif location data."?

That seems an insane amount to me.

Ah sorry about that, didn't think to check the history.

Did you skim read? It introduces him as:

"One can be sure that Uber's Design Director, Shalin Amin".

Any reason for the use of Perl both in this and in DDG? I'm a recent Comp Sci graduate and haven't seen a lot jobs for Perl or use cases over say Python/Ruby which seem to more popular.

I haven't used the Suface Pro 3 myself but I'm wondering, can it become your sole/main dev machine? Or is it only good for some light coding?

As someone interested in this lifestyle, do you receive your work from a network of clients you built up from a more traditional job or do you use online job sites.

I work in England but a co-worker here mentioned that the law says he can't carry them unless he had a very good reason e.g. he is a locksmith.