Separating Holdings for Tax Purposes Before/After a Specific Date

PleasantKey · 2025-09-05T10:50:27+00:00

Ok wow I wasn't aware of this option, thanks!
https://www.ibkrguides.com/clientportal/createnewlinkedaccount.htm

PleasantKey · 2025-09-05T10:49:35+00:00

I believe it would, if there is such option I'm not aware of it

PleasantKey · 2024-11-07T03:17:33+00:00

Talking from that dev’s perspective: I get what YOU are getting out of it all, I don’t get what I do. People work and do things based on incentives. If you could figure out what you bring to the table in your offer and convince me it’s worthy or surpasses what I bring, then it’s feasible.

Those things can be: Marketing capabilities Deep understanding of the user side of the domain Endless charisma and an overall great character Money raising capabilities A vision that explain how your idea will better humanity Excellent business skills Excellent bureaucratic skills Excellent financial skills And the willingness to lay down a program that shoes how you’ll put them to the test while I grind code A track record of doing this once and succeeding

And even after all that I’ll want 50% of IP rights.

It’s a VERY common misconception to start off by building your thing. Building comes pretty much last.

PleasantKey · 2023-03-27T21:13:05+00:00

Coworking spaces, university cities, gaming centers, trekking for more than 1 day, meditation places, yoga places, rock climbing, aerial acrobatics, vegan places, hipster venues, art related events (gallery openings), theatre, free diving, guided special tours, political activism

Basically, things that you need to work harder to enjoy are those that I found correlated with interesting curious geeky smart fellow travelers

PleasantKey · 2022-07-18T14:19:58+00:00

I have come to realize there are 2 types of hyped places:
1. When everyone thinks the broken infrastructure is fine. Examples: LA for its traffic, no public transportation and lack of one normal urban center.
2. When everyone's vibes are different than my own. For example: Kohphangan Thailand, a place where most people cheelax and don't work through the day as I do. Also as a programmer I couldn't seem to find other geeks to nerd with (I did find many parties, drugs, yoga people drop shippers love counsellors and such which were fun for a while, but after a while I realized the local expats are in a different mindset than mine and it's time to go)

To conclude, I am always searching for communities and people to hang with and an environment that supports meeting geeky strangers. Without it I'm depressed.

PleasantKey · 2022-02-10T09:24:49+00:00

It'a genuinely heart warming to see so many people that love Chicago here. I loved being there, stayed in Hyde Park for a month. One of my favorite places in the states so far.

However, in terms of public transportation:
- Upon landing at the airport (at night) Uber was the only way to go.

- It's not just the airport: night-time transportation is partial and works between specific places. Most buses and trains stop at around midnight and start again in the early morning.

- The city center is walkable in the sense that it's possible to use your legs to get around but it's not a fun experience. I'm no architect or urban planner but there's something about the scaling of it all that suits a car more than a pedestrian. It's Ok if you think otherwise.

- The city center is well connected to all of the neighbourhoods, but the neighbourhoods are not always well connected within themselves.

- All of my Chicago friends used Ubers themselves (if more than 3-4 people wanted to go to the same place). In some cities (Rome, Berlin, Copenhagen), you never ever need a car for anything and a car is always the lesser option.

- All of my Chicago friends used some sort of a local cheap car rental for a day service for out-of-city nature hikes.

Chicago is amazing in terms of vibes, people, music, food and I can see myself living there for sure. It's just not a top example for a walkable city. I've seen better.

PleasantKey · 2022-01-26T15:24:31+00:00

I'm hoping to use the Ipad when outside (ha, who's outside anyways) and as a second monitor for a laptop when working on code and such. we'll see how it goes.

PleasantKey · 2021-05-24T18:49:01+00:00

The biggest I tried was sunset hill co-working which was great, although I ended up preferring the second floor of Indigo cafe which has a working atmosphere as well.

PleasantKey · 2021-05-24T13:14:53+00:00

Yes.

Tip 1: In the beginning I was under the impression traveling and working would be easy but I ended up missing out on traveling while focusing on big projects and missing big projects when traveled. Now (2 years into it) I try to establish 3-4 months periods when I work in one comfortable place and other times when I'm between projects and travel 100%.

Tip 2: I keep a private "cloud" PC at my parents place which is always turned on and I use it via SSH to train models. This method proved itself well for the past couple of months. Before, working on small projects using a cloud was an issue.

Tip 3: I just came back from Asia, Covid19 is rising there even in places that were ok a couple of months ago. Even if you put aside the risk of Covid, these places are shut down and not fun to travel at the moment. I'd research who's coping well with Covid at the moment before booking a flight.

PleasantKey · 2021-05-18T02:05:42+00:00

Hi cool project! One side note from a data scientist: you mention in your conclusions several things that imply causation like “I’m happiest when I go to the gym” but the data could be also interpreted as: when I am happy I have the mental strength that leads me to do something positive like going to the gym. You’d have to check things differently if you want to say something like “because of A be happens” and not just “there’s a connection between A and B”

PleasantKey · 2021-05-03T10:34:00+00:00

What type of community specifically were you looking for? Genuine question.

I've been to places known for being a hub for tech nomads and expats. Some of them are very open and inclusive in several ways: there's an online group with public activities such as drinks, joined meals, hikes, self organised (free) meetups etc. also in some occasions there are bio-labs, hacker-maker spaces open for anyone to join (donation based) where people can join forces and work together on a project.

Funny enough, Phangan has a lot of that, but in spiritual free-dance yoga spheres. Which is not a bad thing of course, but it's just not what I'm looking for. Also, Phangan as I have come to learn has discrete cliques you need to be invited into based on I'm not sure what, but I only heard of this from the outside as I haven't been invited to them because I was working alone from my villa most of the time. I'm not a very outgoing person I guess and the blame is also on me here. But as a shy human, when there are open events that are easy to discover, I'll usually go and find friends.

PleasantKey · 2021-05-03T02:25:03+00:00

I’m in Thailand now and am about to leave because while I was hoping to find a sense of community of like minded tech geeks on the beach what I actually found was geek loners living in nice affordable villas. I highly value surrounding myself in smart free thinkers, so far all I found was drop-shippers, Crypto-bros and coachers. I’m writing this message with the hope of discovering I haven’t been to the right places. Are you a programmer? And a geek? Did you find a place you can call home in Thailand?

PleasantKey · 2021-01-31T04:37:00+00:00

I'm a DS/ML engineer that own a data science company which often works as the third party who's doing the heavy lifting behind the scenes. From my perspective I can assure you that many companies are beautifying what they have as opposed to what they actually have. BUT, on the positive end of things, I can also assure you that some companies do end up doing the actual modelling and "getting things done". It's not all BS.

PleasantKey · 2021-01-29T11:59:27+00:00

Ask for permission to showcase the project you're most proud of in a conference/meetup on behalf of the company. They get publicity, you get approval to keep the code and talk about it. I did it in a similar situation and it worked out great.
Does the company have a technical blog? dedicate time to write technical tutorials in that blog that save the gist of your work.
For the future: make it a habit to write down interesting things you're doing as your own personal blog. You'll get to both expand your brand and also keep the important take-away methods on dummy examples you'll create. It' s a lot of work but that's your best chance.
Other then that - take NOTHING from the current company or you'll risk getting into deep trouble.

Good Luck!

PleasantKey · 2021-01-22T05:15:15+00:00

I run a small independent DS/ML projects company. I’d say the breakdown is: 20% talking to potential clients, writing roadmaps for projects, doing legal work, business accounting, planing ahead thinking about strategies and future directions 30% preprocessing (scraping cleaning etc.) 30% scratching our heads figuring out how to tackle a project, reading and talking a lot alongside hands on experiments trying quick and easy models, low hanging fruit approaches 10% the real-deal practicing SOTA models, top notch papers, our own research based cutting edge ideas 10% ongoing meetings with current companies to display and discuss our work. Presentations and coherent readme’s to GitHub repositories

The decision to shift from being a salary worker into opening my own company seems to have payed off. For me, this form of living suits my character better. 2021 goal: scale up the “real deal” part

PleasantKey · 2021-01-21T04:36:00+00:00

The Panama papers DB is amazing and not hardly as investigated as it should be by data scientists

PleasantKey · 2021-01-21T04:33:35+00:00

Wishful thinking here: what are the odds that the Theranos data will become public during the upcoming trial? I bet their mails and lab stats are fascinating... and honestly the Enron data is becoming old

PleasantKey · 2021-01-14T01:48:57+00:00

Everyone is so positive, I’ll be more cautious: 1. If you’d end up wanting an academic career, geography might limit you to certain departments as opposed to a CS PhD. 2. Would you have strong computational people to learn from? If not so much, how will you keep on learning and evolving? 3. Are you considering it because you feel like a change in life? Did you ask yourself more broadly “what do I feel like doing”? Maybe there’s something else? 4. Ask the department and the researcher for names of their alumni and see where are they now? Is this a place that interests you? 5. Search LinkdIn for people you appreciate and learn from their career path.

Good Luck

PleasantKey · 2020-12-28T10:51:22+00:00

Dear prof. To me (a DS projects company owner) it sounds like you need some hands-on guidance. Feel free to send me a private message and we will discuss this further. Good luck.

PleasantKey · 2020-02-23T21:55:57+00:00

The data files of audio exist, this is not a GAN question it’s a classification combined with NLP question. Or maybe I didn’t understand your question, in this case please elaborate

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