madenine

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Data Scientist© (whatever that means in $CURRENT_YEAR)

Current: CHI Previous: PHL, DC, NY

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Comment · 5 years ago
...and as a part of a deliberate effort to reduce the size and effectiveness of government agencies.

If you relocate a government agency HQ to an area that doesn't have any competitive jobs, you're making it more difficult for that agency to attract and retain tallent.

Just by moving the office in the first place you'll hemorrhage experienced personnel who don't want to move their lives across the country.

To proponents - that's a feature not a bug. Less effective regulation (and eventually deregulation) being the goal.

Comment · 5 years ago
Point taken.

Still, as far as risk to RH is concerned - if this kicks off a change via their customers, regulators, or legal action the change is probably not in their favor.

Comment · 5 years ago
RH makes money by selling data to investment firms, not off individual trades/fees.

If their customers - the firms that pay them, not app users - see the RH platform as a threat to their business they could pull the plug[0]. Or if this prompts regulators to examine RH and similar products.

The risk isn't in the outcomes of options/trades; its risk to their business model.

[0] RH's customer are actually market makers, who by and large will be profiting heavily off of this.

Comment · 5 years ago
I don't think its the FBI's job to figure out who smashed up a Target or looted a Footlocker.

Its definitely the FBI's job to figure out who breached a federal building, let alone the seat of our legislative branch during an active session.

That being said... the FBI, DOJ, DHS, and state agencies definitely do shady stuff and track people via their devices at protests. I'm remembering surveillance planes over Baltimore that were traced back to feds.

Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
No, its not really the same - but the parent is "planning to have a dabble with NLP and machine learning" so my guess is HuggingFace/SpaCy/PyTorch/Tensorflow/FastAI are more the consideration than touching CUDA directly.
Comment · 6 years ago
If you want to dabble; use the cloud.

Colab is free. Colab Pro is $10/mo. GPU instances give you access to better hardware and don't lock up your machine for hours/days at a time.

Comment · 6 years ago
Is there a common linear algebra benchmark?

Would love to see a non-Intel chip + OpenBLAS beating out Intel + MKL

Comment · 6 years ago
> Thinking of Lebron James who hypocritically spoke up about BLM and not about human rights abuses in China[1].

I don't understand this take.

Why does LeBron James have to address human rights in China before he, a Black American, can address human rights abuses against Black Americans in America?

Comment · 6 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMgarcFkXz4

Plane boarding is kinda fascinating.

Comment · 6 years ago
I'm with you.

First real forays into FE that didn't involve slicing PSDs to tables were in Bootstrap and Foundation in ~2013. The responsive grid those frameworks delivered seemed magical at the time, but you got the sense that the benefits came on the back of some serious CSS wizardry and framework overhead.

The newer CSS features (grid, flexbox) seem so light and magical.

Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
There might be something interesting here, but I’ll never know.

The real content is gated, and the blog/abstract rolls up to a sales pitch.

Comment · 6 years ago
In short, yes.
Comment · 6 years ago
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