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The first rule of Fight Club is that you don't talk about Fight Club.

It's your class. You can decide what a grade is worth.

I had many teachers who would give better grades to better people.

Who do you think is "better" or more deserving?

TL;DR: Discipline beats motivation

This hits hard and true.

Don't make me type shift on the command line. It makes my pinky finger hurt after a long day.

a one minute change isn't ran or tested, almost by definition.

Who cares what one person out of 500,000 did one time in 2018?

I only get an hour together or a bit more if I'm lucky.

In terms of people I've hired, if they can solve and code things in real time on a white board, then they can definitely do even better with more time and research.

Everyone does better with research, trial, and error. That's not unique. What's unique is problem solving on your feet in a foreign environment. I want those people.

Just curious, have you ever used AWS?

If you're not doing your own chip design and fab, there's really no one else in town to buy from. AMD, Intel have fallen well short in GPUs. TPUs from Google/Amazon are a more likely threat long-term.

Not that large

Why not do it based on their favorite color?

They gave it to him. They put it on his car.

How do I apply a function to every element of a data frame where that function takes as input the i,j indices of the element along with its value?

This is a problem I struggled on for weeks in college. Eventually having to hack something together that relied on modifying the underlying data frame.

I've not return to R since as python has always had better libraries and easier to deploy.