timlod

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Data Science - freelance and consulting both possible.

https://loderhose.com (contains contact info)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-loderhose/

Technologies: most tech relevant to Data Science/Engineering, e.g. PyTorch, pandas, scikit-learn, FastAPI, etc.

I have both BSc/MSc in Data Science and over 4 years of professional experience working as a Data Scientist with all kinds of data. I don't shy away from any data problem, and value reproducibility and code quality in my work. Feel free to ask for a quick chat!

Are you sure about this?

Being roughly familiar with GDPR, I would be reasonably certain that you could keep a like as long as the identity it's attached to is deleted. Much in the same way as you may see reddit posts that just show a [deleted] user.

I've done this as well in the past - worked pretty well with Blink (and a bluetooth Thinkpad keyboard)! Ultimately I missed some functionality, mostly viewing images, which are essential to my workflow, and not available in the terminal. Unfortunately at the time there was no remote desktop tool available for iOS (not sure if one exists now) which would be able to display a GUI client on the iPad through X11 forwarding.

I've used both, or rather, tried using both - lsp-mode never quite worked for me, whereas eglot is rather simple in comparison and easy to set up.

lsp-mode does 'more' (and there's also an auxiliary package, dap-mode, for debugging), but I guess is somewhat more brittle because of this. dap-mode I do use, by the way (for python mainly) - functionality-wise it's my favourite debugger available in Emacs.

eglot further has a single developer who already assigns copyright to the FSF (and developed other packages, like flymake, which are already part of emacs), so it has that going for it as well.

This is like Avy (or ace-jump-mode) in Emacs: https://github.com/abo-abo/avy

I find this questionable. Sure, the type of food is more important than where it comes from - IF you eat meat. This argument effectively states that you can stop making environmentalist choices once you have avoided the biggest offenders.

Now, if you really care about moving towards a more environmentally friendly world, you'll not stop there. You'll first want to change your diet to be plant-based, but then also want to make sure that those plant-based foods you buy are best-in-class (environmentally speaking), i.e. lead to healthier soil and less microplastics.

Beyond the environmental aspect, I'd also suggest looking at what impact your choices have along social and economical axes.

I do what the author mentions as the common retort to their approach: starting an Emacs daemon (server) at boot, and opening Emacsclient when needed. In general, I always have one frame open to do actual work on, but the client is still useful if I ever navigate with a file explorer or open things through the command line (all text extensions open in Emacs).

I'm not sure all the extra effort needed really does the trick - I don't think mine would start up 'fast enough' to beat running a daemon even if I deferred loading most of my config (which can lead to config issues at times).

That being said, I had a look at their dotfiles, and it seems really well organized. If such an effort makes you write a great config, it may be worth it regardless of whether you end up using the daemon or not!

As someone who's lived in Edinburgh, it's hard to take this seriously. Also, living there, you have access to beautiful nature in relatively little time.

One thing when considering effective giving is that cost-effectiveness does not scale linearly with the investment - this figure may well be accurate for the investments they've received, but that doesn't mean that additional investments will be effective to the same degree.

For example, in this case, educating mothers about how to take care of their babies will be very effective until most of the population is educated - from that point on, there may only need to be ongoing low investment to keep that level of education.

In general, effective giving would try to keep highly-effective charities well-funded, but not have them store excess investments - if not all of the donations can be "activated", the charity becomes less effective per dollar.

Hi! I checked out scite and really like the product- however, I can't seem to find relevant papers in my field (ML&AI), ie., I searched for the batchnorm paper, which there has been a lot of 'reevaluation' of- but it's not available. I suppose at this point you don't have access to (some of) the big AI journals/conferences. Is this something on the horizon?

As for your search: there's climate.careers - a site with jobs based around climate change.

I listened to a number of audio books by the same author during a road trip last year, this tells me I listen to this author to an uncomfortable extent ;)

I believe it focuses quite a lot on artists or tracks listened to a lot, and judging from the covers it shows it selects some top N songs for its analysis. Fun stuff though!

Interesting neural pitch estimation algorithm that doesn't require labels (for relative pitch) or few labels (for absolute pitch).

Naming made me think this had something to do with circuit simulation - SPICE (Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis) is well-known in some circles.

I'm currently taking the course "Audio Signal Processing for Music Applications", a joint course from the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona and Stanford, taught mainly by one of the leading figures in music technology, Xavier Serra.

I think the pacing is great even for people who are not yet into DSP; every lecture teaches fundamental concepts that build on top of each other, and many insightful examples are given (listening to waveforms, looking at spectrograms). I'm now in week 5 (I just watch the lectures at my own pace, e.g. so far I don't need the programming part of the course), and I've already learned a lot.

From Gaggle's FAQ (https://www.gaggle.net/frequently-asked-questions/):

How much does Gaggle Safety Management cost?

Gaggle Safety Management truly is a one-of-kind solution that shouldn’t be mistaken for a less expensive or free alternative. We understand that no two school districts are alike, so our per student pricing is based on your specific requirements as well as the size of your student population. Pricing for other Gaggle solutions also can be customized to the needs of your school or district.

Perhaps a better question to ask is "How much will it cost your school or district if you don't use Gaggle Safety Management?" (emphasis mine)

A lot of their webpage seems to be riding on fear, as is visible when just visiting their homepage.

If you read your second reference, you will find that it states that the decline in homicides is not due to Bolsonaro (it started before he got into office) - in fact, it states that certain types of murder have had increased rates.

Apart from Google Maps I do not use any google anymore.

I have an Android phone (Mi A1) with Micro G running lineage OS and don't use gmail (I use protonmail with a custom domain). Instead of Google Search I use duckduckgo. Very rarely, at work, I will use Google for some niche search. By blocking cookies and using uBlock origin I try to limit my exposure to Google analytics.

Thanks! I had a look, but there isn't much information about them. I'll first try solutions that have more info published.

This is a cool analysis featuring an interesting metric (degree of compressibility) for measuring repetitiveness in song lyrics. Great graphics explaining the algorithm too!

Spoiler: Lyrics do seem to get more repetitive.

European here - I've been to countless homes and would say that less than 1% of homes have bidets (at least around Germany, Benelux), so that statement does not make much sense.

I've been to Japan and recognise their toilets as more useful/comfortable as what you'd encounter here, which is a standard toilet.

A commenter there said that Bloomberg abolished this practice several years ago.

Kudos for going with your own!

After spending a good amount of time traveling and mostly using comparably 'hard' surfaces to sleep on, years ago I decided to make myself a rather thin Futon to sleep on.

Buying one made from natural materials would have cost me (pre-University) too much, so I checked how to do this on a budget:

I ended up buying a thin sheet of coconut fibre as well as some kilograms of untreated wool (which I laborously cleaned) off eBay and an insulation material called Thermo Hemp off an ecological construction store. I layered them Hemp - Wool - Coco - Wool - Hemp. Then I bought a large sheet and sewed it around, making some passes through a grid in the middle to keep stuff in place. (Total cost ~150eu, Queen size)

The sleep experience was great - my girlfriend at the time thought it was way too hard but for me it was perfect. However, over time the materials compressed a bit and after about two years I had to put something soft below to make it good again. I should have puffed it up every once in a while to prevent that from happening and perhaps chosen the layers a bit thicker.

Sleeping in bedding of your own making is great and you learn a lot in the process!

This is about the latency involved with live broadcasts.

For a moment I thought someone tried predict goals based on gameplay information, and be able to forecast goals with a certain confidence - but I suppose the game moves too quickly and player performance is too inconsistent for this to ever work.

Avocado is the English word. Aguacate is the Spanish word which was derived from the Nahuatl āhuacatl.

I read that some researchers doubt the results of the re-analysis. However, I failed to catch what was their problem with the re-analysis?

Is it that the approach of the study overall was too naïve and out of control?

Why, do you think the competition in these fields is exclusively for young female participants?

Obviously that's not the case.

I'm not sure about the exact numbers, but 'Tokyo Metro' is only a small part of the Tokyo train network.

There is also Toei Subway, JR East trains, Minato-Mirai, ...the list goes on. 2100 may work for the entire metropolitan area of greater Tokyo.

In any case, the city is massive, extremely well connected by public transport, and services millions of people daily without delay.

> Here's what he thinks of privacy: he had his own private paramilitary / police force de facto arrest and detain a photographer on a public California road. The photographer was taken to Facebook HQ for interrogation:

> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5563325/Mark-Zuckerb....

Why inflate what actually happened that much? Checked you on that statement, and even the daily mail article just mentioned it was a security guard who told the photographer to go to HQ, where he was met by two executives. No 'paramilitary force'...

I like neither the company nor the person, but please don't spread false information.

My bad, remembered it wrong. I mixed it up with the Nexus One I had before that, but that was a high-end phone.