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sebastiansm··on Ask HN: Is ChatGPT4 broken since last weekend?
Is there a place where one can finds useful prompts like yours?
sebastiansm··on Show HN: Learn piano without sheet music
Maybe not, but he has an amazing ear and a vaste knowledge of music theory.
sebastiansm··on Apollo will close down on June 30th
Another web browser mobile here.
sebastiansm··on Gorilla: Large Language Model connected with massive APIs
Imagine working in the Manhattan project outside Manhattan.
sebastiansm··on OpenAI Becomes ClosedAI
The apple store don’t sell apples. Time to go to the court.
sebastiansm··on Most data work seems fundamentally worthless
I'll really would like that the reatailer prepared for me my montlhy basket based on my previous and recurrent consumption.
sebastiansm··on Ask HN: Is data science a dying profession?
I think is growing more than dying!
sebastiansm··on Ask HN: What is the best advice you got on any aspect of life?
Not optimal, but there must be some program for those cases
sebastiansm··on Ask HN: What is the best advice you got on any aspect of life?
I followed the advice of lifting weights.

Before that I was feeling pretty tired of my life, barely played with my little son, was exhasuted in my work as data scientist and my personal relationships with my wife, family and friends were poor. Also I didn't had the energy to pursue my hobbies, was abusing cannabis and alcohol and had poor eating and sleeping habits.

Since I started going to the gym and found this simple beginner routine everything started to feel better. Something changed and feel way better and improving every other aspect of my life.

I started this program, but I think anything similar will help: https://stronglifts.com/

sebastiansm··on Does Google need a new CEO?
Nokia has more years than IBM?
sebastiansm··on Does Google need a new CEO?
It would be interesting to know who were the key players on that Chrome team.
sebastiansm··on Chess is booming and our servers are struggling
Feature wise I agree with you, lichess is amazing. Chess.com funds a lot of tounaments that make the chess scene a lot more fun and interesting, lichess cant't do that.
sebastiansm··on Sex offender can't get a job. Completely out of ideas. Help?
Can’t change name?
sebastiansm··on Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?
Interesting. Here in Chile we can do almost everything with our Intenert connection.

I dont know now that we signed the TPP11 how things are going to change.

sebastiansm··on Ask HN: Is AI-Assisted Coding the Start of the Death of Software Development?
I was really hyped when I asked ChatGPT to write some classes to encode some data, everything seemmed magical when the code was outputing and making sense to me at first glance.

But when a tried it didn't work and spent an hour tryin to fix it.

Then I decided to write my own code and stop wasting time.

sebastiansm··on Goodbye, data science
How did you do the transition from DS to SWE?
sebastiansm··on CEO pay skyrocketed 1,460% since 1978: CEOs paid 399 times as much vs. worker
Salvador Allende in Chile wasn't a violent psychopath, but also produced suboptimal results during his short period.

Then came a real psycho, but that's another sad story.

sebastiansm··on The most unethical thing I was asked to build while working at Twitter in 2015
Some people don’t need to stand up because they don’t see any bad or evil in his work.
sebastiansm··on Ask HN: Why don't I see gold at the end of the remote working rainbow?
Just hang on Roblox
sebastiansm··on Show HN: Get conversational practice in over 20 languages by talking to an AI
The advantage of typing is that I can erase and improve what I'm trying to communicate. In real time I struggle thinking about pronunciation and if what I'm saying is correct or understandable by the other person.
sebastiansm··on Show HN: Get conversational practice in over 20 languages by talking to an AI
Yeah. I been looking for a few months for services to improve my English in a cheap/free way. Until now some Discord channels have been my solution to practice conversation, but it would be nice to have this kind of service to speak anytime about any topic.
sebastiansm··on Is GitHub Down?
The previous weekend Github went down a few minutes.

It seems that this behavior is really frequent.

sebastiansm··on Show HN: AutoML Python Package for Tabular Data with Automatic Documentation
At least for tabular data there is no clear evidence that a neural network is superior than a tree-based model [0]. Many Data Scientist colleagues go straight to neural networks thinking that they will have a better result. Considering the complexity and computational cost, I think it is convenient to evaluate which tool to use for each case.

[0] https://sebastianraschka.com/blog/2022/deep-learning-for-tab...

sebastiansm··on Tell HN: Internet Archive is facing a Big 4 Publishers lawsuit
I had listened and downloaded full music albums from the Archive. Don't know why is possible.
sebastiansm··on I made advanced BI queries with Scratch puzzle pieces
Dis you tried Shiny, Dash or something like those tools?
sebastiansm··on Scratch is a big deal
The first week of Harvard's CS50 involves the creation of a little program in Scratch too.
sebastiansm··on Crypto Winter, or Crypto Ice Age?
How did it happen? A country that generates so much innovation and lacks quality in his basics systems.
sebastiansm··on Six programming languages I’d like to see
When I was a student, our teacher told us to just drag and drop GUI elements in Visual Studio and write the functionalities in C#. At that time I didn't knew that existed other ways to create user interfaces.
sebastiansm··on Python for Data Analysis, 3rd Edition
I learned data analysis in the Hadley/Tidyverse way and constantly struggle when working with pandas. I'll try siuba this week at work.

Just one question, this runs over pandas? It's possible to get the pandas syntax like dbplyr gives the SQL query syntax?

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