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ds_opseekeron Show HN: SQL Explorer – Open-source reporting tool that Just Works

Just discovered this and got the test project up and running... but wondering how to enable CSV import?

The "upload csv file" box does not show up in the test project.

ds_opseekeron Pattern of brain damage is pervasive in Navy SEALs who died by suicide

Bit of a difference between "hard to hit" and "impervious"

ds_opseekeron Maker of RStudio launches new R and Python IDE

I wonder how much of this is just a feedback loop; were people taught both tools and then chose the one that works best, or was one more heavily promoted than the other, so people went with what was easiest to get started?

ds_opseekeron Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught (1996) [pdf]

It hit "delve" on the penultimate point.

ds_opseekeron The Triumph of Counting and Scripting

Reminds me of an observation from a podcast done by a successful creative (sorry, can't remember who, I think Rick Rubin was interviewing the person):

Our society thinks it is normal to have a creative work evaluated by accounting, but never the reverse.

It would be fun to reverse that. "Ok, Jones, you made a profit of 30M, but we don't really see that you released that much creativity. We're going to have to cancel your project."

ds_opseekeron Harvard Study: Planetary Health Index Diet – lower mortality and 30% lower CO2

> the same can of soup at a health food store can easily be $6 while costing $3 at a regular grocery

yes, maybe because the regular store can buy in much higher volume, and will have faster turnover of stock?

ds_opseekeron Ask HN: What indoor CO2 monitor do you recommend?

I'll second air gradient. Founder is really cool and supportive. Tech works. I bought some boards from him a while back, ordered the parts of off alibaba, and had a working ESP32 setup in short order.

ds_opseekeron Gilead shot prevents all HIV cases in trial

In the long run, the side effect of HIV is death due to total collapse of the immune system.

ds_opseekeron EU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat Control

This is one of the traits I admire the most about German culture; awareness that government can abuse its power.

In the US, by contrast, I see one political power eager to give powers to their candidates which they would hate to give to the rival party. It's like they've forgotten that they are giving power to the Government, not to a party, and if the other party gets power they get those powers.

ds_opseekeron Large language model data pipelines and Common Crawl

fasttext failed for me with numpy2.0.

reverted to numpy 1.26.4 and it was fine.

ds_opseekeron Creativity has left the chat: The price of debiasing language models

> a system we use to ask questions expecting truthful answers.

yes, I still wonder how LLMs managed to generate this expectation, given that they have no innate sense of "truth" nor are they designed to return the most truthful next token.

ds_opseekeron Televised Music Is a Pointless Rigmarole (1968)

which killed the ...

ds_opseekeron Squatting in Spain: Understanding Spain's "okupas" problem

because that is illegal?

ds_opseekeron Financial Statement Analysis with Large Language Models

> Why not then publish the strategies once outmoded

Because then your competition knows which strategies don't work, and also what types of strategies you work on.

Don't leak information.

ds_opseekeron Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2024)

Location: US

Remote: Yes

Willing to Relocate: Yes

Technologies: Data Science, ML

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

Email: dr [dot] g [dot] lawyer [at] gmail

Staff/senior DS, founder, former academic interested in solving complex business problems with math. 2 of four companies I built continue to operate without me, former Stripe, 7 year post-doc at the Max Planck. Looking for a hands-on role where I can also shape and lead the DS culture.