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akilat90

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akilat90··on Truncated SVD (2023)
Some years ago, I was dabbling with PCA and was reading up a bit on the internet forums.

As soon as I saw that animation in the blog post, I knew that was from the user “amoeba” in stats stack exchange. Quite random, but turned out my memory was accurate: https://stats.stackexchange.com/a/140579

akilat90··on Reddit signals ominous upcoming "changes" for old.reddit.com
Old reddit is the only "discussion forum" experience you could get on web.

In general, reddit has morphed into a version of facebook where picture/video posts are given more priority by the feed recommendation algorithm. True discussions are suppressed and don't get much impressions. A significant portion of the new crowd it attracts has a hybrid persona between the average facebook and instagram/tiktok user.

akilat90··on Ask HN: Anyone making a living from a paid API?
Interesting work! Do you have any figures about GPU costs your service would incur monthly and how much was spent while building it?
akilat90··on Data Science: Performance of Python vs. Pandas vs. Numpy
While we're on the subject, I'd like to see what this community has to offer on the efficiency of the pandas groupby-apply operations, which I believe is an idiomatic pandas way. The question [0] on SO is a demonstration where the groupby-apply falls to complete iteration of the dataset(also using some pandas, not sure if that's idiomatic pandas though)

Thanks!

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45012503/conditionally-p...