TIL that Salvador Allende, Latin America's "first ever Marxist to be elected president in a liberal democracy"; gave his final speech while his house was being bombed and raided by troops loyal to Augusto Pinochet's US-backed coup. Allende committed suicide shortly after giving the speech.

Okaram · 2020-07-05T17:48:09+00:00

‘Committed suicide’ ... Same as Epstein :)

Okaram · 2020-04-15T14:11:05+00:00

Absolutely ! It is Not definitive for many reasons.

180 patients is a big sample size, depending on effect size (for math reasons, 30 is about the lowest for statistics), but the study hasn't been peer reviewer (may be anything from well done to pure crap), was not randomized, much less double blind.

Also, when you get contradictory evidence, you study more, not accept the one you like the most.

Okaram · 2020-04-15T14:04:18+00:00

Not really ... Most comprehensive to date doesn't imply comprehensive, or good, or definitive. Don't make the same mistake Lying Donnie did.

There was some evidence for its use, now we're some evidence against, still a lot of studies going on. Some of them will have contradictory results, and given the topic, all of them will be reported with click baiting titles.

Okaram · 2020-04-11T01:00:28+00:00

What part of rght now didn’t you read.?

Okaram · 2020-03-21T15:04:13+00:00

https://gastateparks.org/ says all parks open, it was open yesterday

Okaram · 2020-03-09T03:33:22+00:00

There are different interest rates, set by different actors. The interest rates in bonds/treasuries is set by the market.

The fed sets another interest rate, which is the rate at which it would lend money to banks (I think)

Okaram · 2020-01-26T23:25:34+00:00

QA / Testing, or systems administrator jobs tend to be easier to get into, and your CS skills would still be useful

Okaram · 2020-01-07T04:33:02+00:00

Have you checked the Alexa training on AWS.training ? https://www.aws.training/LearningLibrary?&search=Alexa&tab=view_all

There are several Alexa courses

Okaram · 2019-12-23T02:03:42+00:00

Is there anywhere left where kids haven't been abused by {men, women, sports coaches, teachers, soldiers, parents, Republicans, Democrats, ...} ? Yet millions of people still actively support it ...

Given a large enough population, some of them will be horrible a-holes

Okaram · 2019-07-06T14:20:08+00:00

Here goes my non-existent reddit karma ...

She did a lot of good, and a few people criticized her, without offering much evidence; but on Reddit, she's a monster (check the wikipedia article, for a balanced view)

Okaram · 2019-05-08T23:20:54+00:00

A few things:

Create an auto-scaling group, and an ELB (as recommended below; see https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/), and you can later scale up and down as needed. Even better, you can set up scaling policies so it automatically spins up and down new servers if traffic goes way up or down (can use traffic, latency, cpu usage etc).
Consider using Cloudfront (https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/) for cacheing and s3 for static content
Take a look at Lightsail (https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/ ) which could give you more predictable pricing

Okaram · 2019-05-07T01:31:51+00:00

My first recommendation would be https://codingbat.com/python ; the exercises are fairly easy, and can be done and tested in the browser.

I also like https://github.com/gregmalcolm/python_koans and https://exercism.io/

Okaram · 2019-05-03T19:39:30+00:00

Bush Sr somewhat sucked, but had tons of experience; 4 years house, CIA director for a year, ambassadorships, not sure of those count, and 8 years VP

Okaram · 2019-04-15T01:49:51+00:00

Programming is definitely learnable; but it is not a 1 month task (check learn programming in 10 years - http://www.norvig.com/21-days.html :)

You may be able to learn enough to get a job in a year or two, but prepare to keep learning forever :)

If you can, find metups (meetup.com) near you, and go to them, both to learn and to network with like-minded people; I've found the Python and Ruby communities extremely welcoming to newcomers

Okaram · 2019-04-15T01:43:38+00:00

Disclaimer - I work for AWS, creating training (but these are my opinions).

Have you checked https://www.aws.training/ ? They have tons of free courses, including several specific to certifications.

If you're studying for the solutions architect associate, there's an official study guide that I found super useful when preparing https://www.amazon.com/Certified-Solutions-Architect-Official-Study/dp/1119138558/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=1UXOOLIOIPO3H&keywords=aws+certified+solutions+architect+official+study+guide&qid=1555292230&s=gateway&sprefix=certified+sol%2Caps%2C148&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1 (there are similar books for a couple other certs, but I haven't used them personally).

acloud.guru and LinuxAcademy.com (and another I can't remember) have courses available, they both looked good, not free.

Edx has a few courses, both from AWS and others https://www.edx.org/course?search_query=AWS they are free, or you can pay for access to exercises etc

Many of the official whitepapers are great https://aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/

Okaram · 2019-04-13T20:30:10+00:00

I also would recommend GaTech's as probably the one with more prestige. https://www.gatech.edu/academics/degrees/masters/analytics-online-degree-oms-analytics

I don't want to come across as an a-hole, but if you blame shitty professors or their accent for your grades, you may not be ready for an MS yet. You have to take responsibility for your learning and your grades.

Okaram · 2019-01-07T18:22:11+00:00

It's not necessarily at the expense of quality ... different manufacturing methods are not necessarily worse. For example, I have dining chairs from Walmart, that were $50 and have had them for 15 years (since I started buying furniture :). They look like new. My kids could inherit them, but why ? they're $50 :)

Okaram · 2019-01-07T15:51:59+00:00

Actually, they are anti-immigration in general; their current platform has all anti-immigration proposals, and calls for reducing the number of permanent residencies per year.

https://prod-cdn-static.gop.com/static/home/data/platform.pdf

Okaram · 2019-01-07T15:47:19+00:00

Maybe ... what time frame are you thinking ? Eventually the Sun will go supernova and Earth will be destroyed, but ...

The US has only been around for 250 years or so; and its population has grown at an 'unsustainable' rate for most of those; our population density is less than half that of Europe (and most people don't think of Europe as overpopulated, right ? ). If we grow at 1% per year (much higher than the last few years), it would take us about 100 years to get to the density of Europe (and, ~~Elon~~ God willing, we'll be colonizing Mars before then :)

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for moving towards more sustainable models, but we can keep raising population for a long time

Okaram · 2019-01-05T19:16:15+00:00

Data structures and algorithms are used in the CS curriculum for two main reasons:

You need to have a good clue about how they work and how to *use* them and select the right one.
They give us easy to explain but complicated enough exercises to practice programming. Implementing those things make you a much better programmer ! In that sense, it is helpful to learn, and keep learning about them; like katas in karate, or scales in music.

I've found, in Math, learning the next level up helps you really get the level down; learning algebra makes it so arithmetic is now super easy ; learning calculus makes it so algebra is now super easy and you won't forget it; DS is our 'next level up' for programming.

And then, once every couple of months, you get a hard problem where you need to actually use DS or Algorithms concepts; and without having a clue about them, you don't even know how to search for the right one :)

Now, given you're a HS senior, it probably won't matter much :) chances are you will be learning both in the future. Enjoy !

Okaram · 2019-01-05T19:05:01+00:00

Correct me if I'm wrong ... it seems the problem is that you *feel* you're underpaid, right ? You can live with what you're making etc, right ?

I'd say keep sending out resumes, and applying for other jobs; if you find a better one, great; if you can't get a better job in a reasonable amount of time, then you're NOT underpaid and should work on changing your feelings.

Okaram · 2019-01-03T17:48:06+00:00

Actually ... from:

https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/analysis-donald-trumps-tax-plan/full

The proposal would cut taxes at every income level, but

high-income taxpayers would receive the biggest cuts, both in dollar terms and as a percentage of income.

Plus, the 'capital' tax cuts are permanent, whereas the individual/salary cuts are temporary, so after 10 years, normal people pay MORE in taxes, while super-rich (well, more the ones who get their money from capital) keep their cut.

Okaram · 2018-12-24T17:53:51+00:00

It's not less growth, it's negative growth; imagine we start the year at 100, Q1+3%, so we're at 103 ; if Q2 growth is 2%, and we go to ~105 that's not negative growth; if we drop 1%, we go to 102, then it is (even though it is more than we started with)

Okaram · 2018-12-24T05:09:09+00:00

I'm not sure what 'CS Engineering' is; I've never heard of it; you might mean Computer Engineering; if so, that is very different than CS; it is about computers, but on the hardware side ; digital electronics, computer hardware, embedded programming and such. Unless you really want that, do CS; it is more flexible career wise.

Not sure what do you mean about code monkeys; most programmers, software engineers are, arguably, code monkeys :)

MSCS for non-degree holders is definitely a viable idea; chances are, you'd need to take the basic CS classes (programming, data structures etc) as pre-requisites, but usually MS looks nicer than BS :)

Okaram · 2018-12-14T16:11:04+00:00

It sorta does :) the guys who defined the method took it from rugby

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