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Not a self-venture but my old team built desktop applications for the pricing department at a very large airline. They did everything from recommending price changes to loading ad hoc adjustments and keeping track of pricing strategies. All in JavaFX. That team split and is making most of them web-based now but the desktop apps still thrive in the meantime.

I started my Bayesian journey with his book which is fantastic, and if you're still interested, I highly recommend anything by Andrew Gelman. His lectures are captivating and he drops nuggets of intuition every other sentence. He also has at least one very highly regarded book on Bayes and a great website on stats and reproducibility (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu).

I've seen these stories pop up from time to time about large entities switch to linux or open source software in general and it seems there's a large number who end up going back to windows/proprietary. Hopefully this is not one of those.

This person called it a week ago which I just think is impressive

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28931821

I think it was a joke

I bought a tungsten wedding band and will never again. Not because of its hardness but because I dropped it on the floor and it shattered. Apparently tungsten is very brittle and is useless on a hand that does anything. Luckily it was cheap.

A lot of comments about how terrible T-mobile security is. Is there a (US) carrier that has good security? How much worse is it than others?

"we completed an assessment of the useful lives of our servers and network equipment and adjusted the estimated useful life of our servers from three years to four years and the estimated useful life of certain network equipment from three years to five years. This change in accounting estimate was effective beginning in fiscal year 2021 and the effect was a reduction in depreciation expense of $721 million and $1.6 billion and an increase in net income of $561 million and $1.2 billion, or $0.84 and $1.81 per basic and $0.83 and $1.78 per diluted share, for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021, respectively."

Crazy how those seemingly small changes can result in huge accounting difference.

I don't know about y'all but I'm paid for working 40 and maybe hit 25-30 each week and I get stellar performance reviews. This isn't possible to swing in every profession but at least in my job (data science at a F500) no one expects you to put in a full 40 as long as your output is good.

And if you want to play with this the gluonts python library makes it very easy. It also includes some other time series models as well! I've been playing with it at work and it's enjoyable.

So now I make a bot to upload repositories of intentionally buggy code so that when people blindly use this autocomplete my hacking becomes easier!

So is Belarus going to be the next north korea?

I absolutely loved that book as a kid and still remember the art very clearly 25+ years later. Crazy how such simple things can have such long lasting impressions.

Yes. I don't think there's every been a theorem that could be classified as maliciously misleading. And even if the author didn't mean to make it sound malicious, the grandiose language is unbecoming of an academic article.

I don't think that's true at all for Python. It's explicitly created as a "batteries included" language with a very large standard library. This is a quote from PEP 206:

"The Python source distribution has long maintained the philosophy of "batteries included" -- having a rich and versatile standard library which is immediately available, without making the user download separate packages."

I do think there needs to be a better search system for latex/math symbols. That would be amazing. As far as using the notation, I forget where I read this but I remember seeing that one excuse for the use of abstract symbols is keep the ideas abstract so as to not narrow your mind into just what you're working on. So many areas of math cross over so keeping things abstract could aid in that recognition.

So does this allow google to then harvest all of my data emanating from phone calls/browsing etc?

Maybe I'm dumb but I have no idea what this is even after clicking around and reading the FAQ

edit: I am dumb and didn't scroll down far enough on the github page to see the pictures.

I 100% saw it the same way you did and exclaimed aloud when I read this thread.

NoScript also works on most of them (including this one).

Reminds me of the similar problem with the machine learning conference NIPS which was renamed NeurIPS (not much of an improvement if you ask me). There were instances of women at that conference also being forced into uncomfortable situations relating to the name. People are dumb.

I was just thinking of a few other names that I find amusing but I can definitely imagine people abusing:

- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)

- Aircraft Incident Data Store (AIDS. This was renamed)

Reminds me of the similar problem with the machine learning conference NIPS which was renamed NeurIPS (not much of an improvement if you ask me). There were instances of women at that conference also being forced into uncomfortable situations relating to the name. People are dumb.

Edit: I was just thinking of a few other names that I find amusing but I can definitely imagine people abusing:

- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)

- Aircraft Incident Data Store (AIDS. This was renamed)

Airlines do similar things for anything safety related. Having safer airlines is good for business and there's no sense in hoarding that information.

Strongly agree. I programmed for a living and as my almost exclusive hobby for years. Then crashed and hated both. I forced myself to stop programming at home and re-invigorated my musical hobbies and I've been so much happier. I can now program for fun in moderate amounts too but I took about 6 months - a year hiatus.

I hadn't heard these before and I find that even less exotic languages change they way you think about things. I didn't understand grammar like indirect objects until I studied Spanish. In Vietnamese, every word is a single syllable and you chain them together to make more complex descriptors. They also have no tense. So to say "I went to the store yesterday", you say "I go store yesterday" The form of go does not change depending on the time period. Languages are so cool and if I could make as good a living just studying them I would.

I'm sure a lot of companies are like this but not all. The one I work for is huge (50k+ emps) and is very much like a family. One of our engineers got a really rare, debilitating disease and they kept him on even though he couldn't work for 2 years and they helped raise thousands of dollars for his medical bills. My manager even helped me find external jobs when things weren't improving here. Probably rare but it happens. My coworkers here are easily my best friends.

I use this daily and love it. I used to use R just for EDA and visualization and Python for the rest but plotnine hanged that for me so I can do everything in one language. So much better than Matplotlib IMO.

gif is lossless for images with < 256 colors and good for sharp-edged art according to this.

http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~anderson/images/GIFvsJPEG/compressi...

That would be my guess.

The urinal and gas station ones are right up the street from me and I don't visit either of those facilities anymore for that reason.

I've seen a lot these projects recently. I have used MLFlow for a while and enjoyed it. How does this compare?