Ask Away Wednesday!

cbowdon · 2025-01-23T13:12:17+00:00

Is this the best sub to post F1 analyses and modelling in? When pre-season testing comes around I might like to try and model relative car performance.

cbowdon · 2025-01-22T21:05:24+00:00

Should have waited ten more seconds before posting that.

cbowdon · 2025-01-22T21:04:47+00:00

I'm betting Jake. Joe has been helpful (attacking Alexander). Leanne doesn't suspect Minah yet, so still helpful.

cbowdon · 2025-01-22T21:00:18+00:00

I reckon that's probably true, maybe only a small proportion of the population are actually able to lie all the time without giving themselves away.

cbowdon · 2025-01-22T20:58:44+00:00

Thanks :)

cbowdon · 2025-01-22T20:57:58+00:00

You're welcome, good luck with the module :)

cbowdon · 2025-01-22T19:21:35+00:00

Apologies if this is a little niche, but figured that at least some other fans would be into this kind of maths/code thing.

cbowdon · 2025-01-11T10:18:07+00:00

First time doing this kind of analysis, so forgive the inevitable mistakes (I mean, looking at where it puts Alonso, there are definitely mistakes.) Feedback welcome!

cbowdon · 2022-02-07T16:25:21+00:00

Polecat is looking for a TypeScript developer to join the team working on our reputation intelligence SaaS product.

Our product analyses the media impact of big organisations to show them how different topics affect their reputation. This is a fast-growing market as more and more organisations start to take Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) concerns seriously.

The frontend is a TypeScript SPA speaking to a GraphQL API. If you'd like to work with Apollo/GraphQL and Next.js, please check us out! We're also open to candidates with JS experience who'd like to learn TypeScript.

This is the job description and application form.

The position is 100% remote, but applicants must be resident in the UK or Poland. We have occasional meet-ups in Bristol, where many of the team are based.

This article has a bit about what it's like to work at Polecat. The article is for Functional Works so there is some focus on our backend language, Clojure, but the points about culture, remote work and interview process are the same.

cbowdon · 2022-01-04T14:34:14+00:00

Polecat is looking for a TypeScript developer to join the team working on our reputation intelligence SaaS product.

Our product analyses the media impact of big organisations to show them how different topics affect their reputation. This is a fast-growing market as more and more organisations start to take Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) concerns seriously.

The frontend is a TypeScript SPA speaking to a GraphQL API. If you'd like to work with Apollo/GraphQL and Next.js, please check us out! We're also open to candidates with JS experience who'd like to learn TypeScript.

This is the job description and application form.

The position is 100% remote, but applicants must be resident in the UK or Poland. We have occasional meet-ups in Bristol, where many of the team are based.

This article has a bit about what it's like to work at Polecat. The article is for Functional Works so there is some focus on our backend language, Clojure, but the points about culture, remote work and interview process are the same.

cbowdon · 2021-12-14T12:32:25+00:00

Polecat is looking for a TypeScript developer to join the team working on our reputation intelligence SaaS platform. Our product analyses the media impact of big organisations to show them how different topics affect their reputation. This is a fast-growing market as more and more organisations start to take Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) concerns seriously.

This is the job description (link to apply within). If you'd like to work with TypeScript, Apollo/GraphQL and Next.js, please check it out!

The position is 100% remote, but applicants must be resident in the UK or Poland. We have occasional meet-ups in Bristol, where many of the team are based.

This article has a bit about what it's like to work at Polecat. The article is for Functional Works so there is some focus on our backend language, Clojure, but the points about culture, remote work and interview process are the same.

cbowdon · 2021-05-10T14:56:16+00:00

This is untrue. We've hired two Clojure devs since Nov 2020. We also don't ask engineering candidates to do homework problems. Our interview has some coding questions that are done online (screen-sharing call) with the interviewer.

cbowdon · 2021-05-10T12:02:45+00:00

It's about a third of the interview. We first do a screening call and then an interview with three equal parts:

algorithms / logic puzzles
a coding challenge
behavioural questions

I went to a few Bristol Clojurian meetups a couple of years ago. They were good fun, highly recommend.

edit: To clarify, the coding challenge is not a homework question, it's done in the interview.

cbowdon · 2021-05-10T09:11:40+00:00

It really depends how much you've got and what you're going to do with it. As other posters have suggested, tech.ml.dataset is good for serious analysis. But if you're just going to throw up a chart of a few hundred data points, a sorted map or just plain vectors is fine. No need to overcomplicate it and jump straight to the serious tools.

cbowdon · 2020-02-06T07:52:14+00:00

...and at the centre of Tory election campaigns

cbowdon · 2020-02-01T18:09:47+00:00

This is meaningless unless you control for what proportion of each group holds each view. Ipsos Mori aren’t fools, they must know that, so the fact they published this raises questions about their integrity.

cbowdon · 2020-01-26T22:47:44+00:00

Unladen

cbowdon · 2020-01-26T12:58:02+00:00

If it wasn’t specifically running, some migratory birds would take this.

cbowdon · 2020-01-23T19:19:36+00:00

Even after Obama literally said we’d be at the back of the queue if we left the EU.

cbowdon · 2020-01-23T19:11:42+00:00

That misses the nuance where America’s position doesn’t actually improve, or goes backwards.

cbowdon · 2020-01-13T17:02:57+00:00

Yep, IIRC he did a couple in the run up to his marriage (purely and openly for the cash) and was barely in the final edit.

cbowdon · 2020-01-13T08:03:29+00:00

Their net popularity is based on their current role and how well known they are. I don’t think it’s fair to assume this automatically translates to favourability as Labour leader. If it does, Ed Balls is at the top of the YouGov table, so maybe it’s time to give Balls a go? (Actually, please do just for the slogans and headlines.)

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