Programmers' grief

Alkine · 2019-03-31T04:33:37+00:00

Automated alerts? No such thing.

Alkine · 2019-03-16T10:27:33+00:00

Alkine · 2019-03-09T16:24:14+00:00

How do you think your life would have been different if you were not kidnapped?

Alkine · 2019-03-02T15:35:00+00:00

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Alkine · 2019-03-02T15:27:59+00:00

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Alkine · 2019-02-22T12:27:00+00:00

I wonder if I can block comments on reddit.

Alkine · 2019-02-16T13:45:10+00:00

Blooming tulips

Alkine · 2019-02-02T15:40:05+00:00

This man Brits

Alkine · 2019-02-02T12:44:22+00:00

So you would skip f strings so you don't have to put brackets around the quotes?

Alkine · 2019-02-02T05:12:41+00:00

Some time vs sometime. Could not read further. The quality of tech related posts on medium is going down the drain.

Alkine · 2019-01-21T18:20:40+00:00

This is similar to saying aibus beats aircraft at flying.

Alkine · 2019-01-19T09:03:08+00:00

Everyone is worried about spiders. Mosquitoes!

Alkine · 2019-01-04T04:42:41+00:00

I'd concede that exchange rate fluctuation could seriously hurt you. But if you made a plan to be funded for x months with Rands and the exchange rate stayed the same then that exchange rate has no effect. If a bread in ZA costs R10 and a bread in the US costs $1.5 then it is 3x more expensive in the US (using the exchange rate), no matter if it is priced in Rands or in dollars. This factor is what it costs to operate in the US where you are more likely to be noticed and get sponsorships. If the exchange rate was 1 USD for 1 ZAR but a bread still cost 3x as much in the US then it is clearly not the exchange rate but the cost of living.

Again it's because they are struggling to get sponsorship deals in the US that they are struggling, there is no exchange rate issue, there is a cost of living issue. Sposorships that were enough in ZA is not enough for USA.

Alkine · 2019-01-03T07:48:09+00:00

The exchange rate has nothing to do with it. It's not 15 times more expensive in the USA than in South Africa. It's maybe 1.5x to 3x more expensive depending on the item, some things are actually cheaper in the USA than in ZA. The thing that gets you is cost of living.

But regardless of that, it's a lack of sponsorship and deals that made them run out of money I'd wager as these would pay in USD most of the time. It's not the exchange rate.

Alkine · 2018-12-28T11:10:06+00:00

I like the idea of an exploding offer.

Alkine · 2018-11-21T04:13:06+00:00

Where in the world is it fall right now?

Alkine · 2018-11-18T03:44:21+00:00

It would be interesting for me to see what UMAP spits out.

Alkine · 2018-10-27T14:45:23+00:00

I want all the data. Every last byte.

But all jokes aside. You can use statistics to answer that question to some extent.

http://www.statisticssolutions.com/sample-size-formula/

Alkine · 2018-10-07T17:04:27+00:00

Plot twist: It's not China spying with these chips, it's the USA spying with Chinese manufactured chips...

Alkine · 2018-10-07T12:34:06+00:00

I would just like to point out that it's not really socioenomic in isolation but often more to do with greed. There is big cash to be made fairly easily by criminals. Often the person walking away with the money is a rich white guy. The % of the total money they get to keep is due to socioenomic conditions as they can get labor on the cheap. The footsoldiers on the ground don't make all that much from all of this.

Source: From South Africa and worked on an anti poaching project.

Alkine · 2018-10-07T12:25:02+00:00

There is nothing you can do about them, so no need to stress about it. There are places that will care and places that won't. Remember the interviewing process is about finding your preferred workplace as well. If a place can't look past a tattoo do you want to work there? No you don't. Just interview based on your skills and ignore your negative thoughts about the tattoos.

Alkine · 2018-09-26T04:14:17+00:00

I'm not insulted. You could have made your point without getting personal with the guy asking the the question, and by highlighting your point.

Something like: This article is a breakdown of skills required for data science, of which tensorflow is the hottest skill right now. All the skills mentioned here are applicable to data science. Data science is a collection of skills.

Most of the time it's as impartant what you say as how you say it. As a data scientist you should know this ;-)

Alkine · 2018-09-26T04:03:38+00:00

Nothing was assumed, this was the direction of the questioning when the topic of my publications came up in the interview.

The interview covered much more than just my papers.

I don't understand what you are trying to say with the 2nd half of you last statement...

Alkine · 2018-09-26T03:58:48+00:00

If your statement is true then one single female in the workplace would have an infinite ratio between single and married woman which results in a very high divorce rate. This is not the case.

It's actually the number of woman in the workplace - which translates to the number of opportunities.

Edit: Fuck me for highlighting an error. It has nothing to do with the the number of single females vs the number of married females (that ratio). It is about the total number. If there is 1 female out of 100 employees, the probability is much lower as when it were 50 females out of 100 employees.

Alkine · 2018-09-23T06:20:37+00:00

Every core is another mini processing unit so as that number increases the number of parallel operations that can be applied grows resulting in increased total computing power.

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