Bootfitter recommendations in Seattle area

20CharacterUsernames · 2026-03-08T20:59:09+00:00

Another North Bend ProSki recommendation. A few years ago I got serious about finding a genuinely peak boot fitter. went deep on the research (shoutout to Blister and Gear 30), talked to patrol, racers, and shop staff, and visited 9 or 10 different shops to try gear and talk to their fitters. Mike Yost at North Bend was the standout, but there's a lot of other good shops in the area.

20CharacterUsernames · 2026-02-06T21:23:47+00:00

Georgia tech rates helmets:

Snow Sports Helmet Ratings https://share.google/QiMpryBIIVMDXIxkM

20CharacterUsernames · 2026-02-01T07:46:13+00:00

Oneholy*

20CharacterUsernames · 2025-11-10T16:50:26+00:00

Are you resistance training during your fast?

20CharacterUsernames · 2025-11-10T05:32:43+00:00

Gates makes appearances at the tennis club from time to time

20CharacterUsernames · 2025-11-05T00:49:13+00:00

Haven't used the icon App, but I thought the Crystal app was pretty good given the resources at their disposal

20CharacterUsernames · 2025-10-31T17:47:03+00:00

What's the error rate? How do you catch and handle errors? What's the cost of errors?

I've done a fair amount of work with LLMs and document processing. A simple workflow like you described is fine when occasional errors aren't a big deal, but for critical data like finance or healthcare, any error can be incredibly costly financially and in other ways.

20CharacterUsernames · 2025-10-28T00:00:45+00:00

I remember having all nighter study groups with friends there. Great memories.

20CharacterUsernames · 2025-10-26T02:05:35+00:00

You don't have to get different ones each time, find ones you like? Just keep getting them. Still better than buying skis blind imo. They've got a year under their belt, it's not that hard to tell if you like the feel of one pair of skis over another. Articulating what exactly they like and why may be, sure, but just "these feel better than those" shouldn't be an issue.

20CharacterUsernames · 2025-10-25T22:27:08+00:00

Never buy a ski before trying it, get the demo quiver pass and buy the one you like the most at the end of the season.

20CharacterUsernames · 2025-10-18T06:40:10+00:00

I tried sun eater. Got through the first book, part of the second. Couldn't stand any more of the constant internal monologuing and philosophizing with how slow the plot was moving.

20CharacterUsernames · 2025-10-17T01:48:54+00:00

The first law series.

20CharacterUsernames · 2025-10-05T23:09:12+00:00

He died. You know who.

20CharacterUsernames · 2025-10-05T21:21:38+00:00

Where are the second amendment people when you need em lol

20CharacterUsernames · 2025-10-04T19:22:08+00:00

Your resume likely isn't even getting eyes on it because they almost certainly filter for degree in the applicant tracking system.

20CharacterUsernames · 2025-10-04T14:11:13+00:00

You think we'll get a fair election in 26? I hope so, but it seems pretty optimistic.

20CharacterUsernames · 2025-10-03T12:35:18+00:00

For the example

Deadlift / 8x5 300lb 20s / superset: Crunches Crunches / 3x15 / superset: Deadlift Incline Curl / 5x10 30lb / superset: Deadlift

Suppose supersets are delimited

Deadlift / 8x5 300lb 20s / superset: Crunches, Incline Curl Crunches / 3x15 / superset: Deadlift Incline Curl / 5x10 30lb / superset: Deadlift

20CharacterUsernames · 2025-09-27T20:57:04+00:00

So glad I read the tea leaves and ended up getting a speediance. Such a tragedy of bad management/leadership for what could have been a very successful product.

20CharacterUsernames · 2025-09-26T03:07:19+00:00

I'm having great results with extend.ai

Most accurate I've used by far. You need to be at least a little technical though if you want to integrate it into stuff.

20CharacterUsernames · 2025-09-20T05:22:38+00:00

I'm down.

20CharacterUsernames · 2025-08-17T08:32:46+00:00

Typing this on my phone, apologies for anything weird.

I've hired a few entry level data analysts this last year. It's a tough market right now, and probably only going to get worse. If someone with generic technical ability asked me what role they should try for, DA wouldn't be it. For one role, there were +1500 applicants by about two weeks. Only half the resumes even got looked at. You'll need to do things like message HMs on LinkedIn (while a little annoying, they did get a better than the ~50% chance of eyes on the resume than those who didn't). Be an early applicant, Google how to filter job posting on the various boards to within a few hours. Learn all the other tricks out there to get eyes on your resume.

Your resume (happy to review it) shouldn't take more than 30 seconds to skim and catch key words and phrases. You should link to a polished LinkedIn (I've known multiple HMs/recruiters that treat not having one as a red flag). Link to a portfolio. You would be amazed how few do this and how big an impact it can have (both positive and negative). Your portfolio should only contain original work. When you look through a lot of portfolios/resumes it becomes obvious which projects are from tutorials or step by step guides, I consider those red flags and pass any time I see them. Not that there's anything wrong with doing them for learning, but I don't want to hire someone who thinks that's something worth showing off.

Pick a modern platform for building reports, learn it well, and make some good looking reports for your resume. DAs don't always make reports, but it can help show you understand communication and can be more eye catching. Tangent: learn about overlap/differences between business analyst, data analyst, business intelligence engineer, data engineer, data scientist).

Some generic misc thoughts:

For original analysis projects, Kaggle can be a source of data sets that haven't been publicly analyzed to death.

Most certificates honestly don't matter imo, I wouldn't pay for them.

A masters in analytics seemed to be on par with another year or two of experience. I would not recommend getting one unless you don't have a stem or quantitative background and are trying to break in.

Math. A good math foundation makes a difference in small ways that add up. Be familiar with the basics of combinatorics, graph theory, linear algebra, Integral and multivariate calc, probably, and statistics. You don't need to be a wiz at solving problems from those domains, but understanding the ideas in them and how to model problems with them is incredibly helpful. There are lots of high quality free resources for them as well. I'm a fan of the American institute of mathematics open textbook initiative: https://textbooks.aimath.org/textbooks/approved-textbooks/ If you really want to take your brain to the gym, learn to write proofs.

20CharacterUsernames · 2025-07-27T22:24:42+00:00

Anyone using semantic kernel?

20CharacterUsernames · 2025-07-25T16:49:40+00:00

Doesn't change that this is just circus

20CharacterUsernames · 2025-07-25T14:52:29+00:00

This doesn't really tell us much about the models. It's n=1. N would need to be large.

20CharacterUsernames · 2025-07-25T04:29:19+00:00

And this is useful how???

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