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I’m sorry that happened to you. Do you think that the engineer that ambushed you felt threatened by your candidacy? I’ve been around a bunch of engineers who hate hiring to “raise the bar”…

The whole process was pretty informal as I never actually applied (they reached out because of my code!)

I’ll never know exactly what happened, but it I had to guess I think the CDO felt undermined by the “rogue” employees who sourced me as a candidate and pushed me through the process without his consultation…

I found myself interviewing with a hedge fund last year because they liked some of my open source stuff (and approach to API design)...

I had about six conversations with a bunch of the team and a conversation with the CEO to sell me on the position. The last step was a seventh “conversation” with the Chief Data Officer to figure out if this was something I really wanted.

The CDO had different ideas… he joined the Zoom, started sharing his screen (with no introductions), opened a Google Doc and told me we were going “write some code together”.

I was pretty confused and flustered but tried to roll with it. He first asked me to “reverse a string”. OK. My lil Python snippet was fine but he didn’t like that it wasn’t “the most memory efficient way to do it”. He then asked me to write a function to approximate “e”. I just ended the interview right there.

This is the plot of QualityLand (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36216607-qualityland). Highly recommended!

The problem with this is:

Do you want to listen to a 10 brand new songs by 10 brand new artists using generative AI, or do you want to listen to 10 brand new Taylor Swift songs (that were created with the help of generative AI)?

While some people will be able to leverage this to good effect, I fear the established have much more to gain in this new world…

I really hope we get 15 years of iPhone-like progress! Everything just seems like it's moving so fast right now...

Same! I like how it's a little easier to plan out moves and set traps with this game...

With all these new text-to-speech AI models... how can we trust any recordings like this anymore?

But a real human can still use these tools and pass content off as though they themselves created the content…

63.5MB? Why so big?!

I mean, it is on their own website?

His Dave cameo too!

I'm sorry, but this is just a tremendously bad take.

Total points, first 4 years in NBA (including playoffs):

LeBron: 9339

Doncic: 7873

I really didn't enjoy this book. Too fluffy for me.

Better alternatives: The Model Thinker, or Algorithms to Live By!

The animations are really slick for an indie app! Well done!

Gut reaction: I hate it. But I'll probably get used to it...

The IRR calculator % formatting is wrong.

Original: [1000], Flows: [100, 200, 900] Shows: 0.07%, should be: 7.11%

Learning iOS (Swift) could be a gateway to the next-generation of platforms: carOS, realityOS (AR/VR). Or both of these efforts could be complete duds!

It's really good. Scary good. Sometimes it gets in the way though (just writing the damn code might be faster than continuously refining prompts)

How did you get your "Confidential" Airline gigs?

I have Xcode open. Building a cashflow management and forecasting app with Swift/SwiftUI. And using ChatGPT to write a large chunks of it!

But are we confident GPT4 will fail in the same ways? What about 5? I've been coercing it to write code all day and it's honestly pretty good. It can get stuck, sure, but when it does and I provide it the compiler error it can fix in 50% of the time...

Framed differently: what would you (be able to) do, or (be able to) build with an infinite number of “8 year olds” at your disposal?

I think that many people are afraid of GPT4, 5, and 6. Not necessarily ChatGPT(3.5) in its current incarnation. I guess your future outlook is dependent on whether you think this tech is going to be exponential, or logarithmic…

Here it is! https://d1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net/production/7ab64a3b-6c...

From a tweet:

Word count NYT's puff piece on SBF:

"Fraud": 0 "Enron": 0 "Crime": 0 "Illiquid": 0 "Stolen": 0 "Hidden": 0 "Criminal": 0 "Back door": 0 "He's getting sleep": 1

Source: https://twitter.com/TrungTPhan/status/1592349684471037955

Naive question: % chance SBF goes to jail?

"Easier than pandas" is the most important consideration for right now! If pandas is "Jira", I consider redframes to be "Trello" (appropriate for most, but not all use cases).

I actually was inspired to build the library after teaching a one week intensive pandas course to a couple of Data Scientists @ a Fortune 500... (pandas is really hard for beginners!)

While performance and OOM aren't priorities right now, I'd love to one day replace the pandas "backend" with Arrow (or something else) once I nail the API :)

Another thing to consider: the Python community is historically really bad at updating to the "latest and greatest". This [1] resource suggests that 80% of Python versions in the wild are Python 3.6-3.8!!

[1] https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_details/pl-python/3

I think this site is specifically keying in on the "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11" PyPI classifier... While many packages haven't been updated to include this classifier, if you were to run all of the unit tests for all of the "Top 360" libraries on 3.11, I'd be willing to bet 350+ would pass without failure.