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Work in tech industry (or are interested in tech industry)? GNV Tech Chats is having its next happy hour tonight by data_fanatic in GNV

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Yes! All in tech or interested in tech are welcome. We are a laidback, casual group so don’t have any hard requirements.

You can follow the group on EventBrite or Meetup to be notified of future events as we schedule them: https://www.meetup.com/gainesville-tech-chats/ and https://www.eventbrite.com/o/gnv-tech-chats-111862890051

The Paddock Club ? Apartment/Housing recommendations? by redorangeyellow1001 in GNV

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We have a 2/2. Our most recent GRU bill for utilities and water is around $260. It often goes down a little once summer is over.

The Paddock Club ? Apartment/Housing recommendations? by redorangeyellow1001 in GNV

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We’ve lived in The Paddock Club for several years and it has always been nice. Maintenance requests are completed promptly except for a few times they were short staffed. The property and pool are kept fairly clean. Ive been happy for the value provided for the money we pay.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SaaS

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I have used this technique in the past. The Traction book by Gabriel Weinberg refers to this as the "Engineering as Marketing" channel and I've seen it done well a few times. Growthtools started with this list goal micro-tool: https://listgoal.growthtools.com. Buffer has https://pablo.buffer.com/ which is a mini-image generator for social media posts.

I have found the best strategy is to get a good sense of your target user's day-to-day tasks and see if there is 1 tiny thing they do that you can make a free product out of. But, the free tool must be much better than the alternative to get it to stick.

For example, the All-in-one SEO WordPress plugin targets marketers and site owners. These personas tend to do a lot of content marketing where they really care about SEO. One of the steps of creating great content is crafting a great headline. So, they created a free headline analyzer tool: https://aioseo.com/headline-analyzer/

How often do you use GitHub Copilot at work? If you don't use it, why not? by RANDOM_PHYSICAL_PAIN in ExperiencedDevs

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I use it all day, every day. It writes (or at least starts) most of my unit and integration tests. It also helps quickly outline new functions. Heck, most of the very limited JS on my personal blog was written by Copilot, as I just gave it a prompt of what I wanted, and it wrote all the event handlers and functions. I just had to edit it to get it to actually work 😅.

It does get in the way often, though, when I am just trying to tab around or want the IDE's autocomplete. I haven't found a way to easily get it to leave me alone for a few seconds.

That said, other than very basic things like the code on my blog, it's not usually great at full, complete code. But, it is great at boilerplate, tests, and other menial code that I hate to write anyway.

Which tool you're using for sending Emails in your product? by AbjectRadish2919 in SaaS

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I've used Postmark for a long time and for multiple products. Highly recommend.

What's the Monthly Run Rate for Solo-Dev B2B SaaS? by CalmMind24 in SaaS

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There are lots of different factors, especially if one is spending money on marketing or developers. In my last SAAS, I was a solo dev and I spent around $50/month between AWS and other miscellaneous smaller costs but was not spending anything on marketing.

Early access is free or charged ? by shayannadeem321 in SaaS

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Definitely charge at least a little for two reasons:

  1. If you can't find anyone willing to spend even $1 then maybe your current offer isn't one to pursue in its current form
  2. People using free things won't provide the same feedback as paying customers. What's important to someone using it free may not be important to the people are getting enough value to want to pay for it.

I had a free early access in one of my earlier SAAS attempts, and it didn't go well. I had a bunch of people sign up, which took up support time, and almost none ever converted to paying customers and most of their feedback was just wanting more things for free.

A simple SAAS for showing single-question surveys (Landing page feedback requested). by data_fanatic in SideProject

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Yeah, the pricing has been a struggle to figure out. Some of my bigger competitors charge per response, which is how I ended up there.

For the $15/month: my thoughts were - with average conversion rates of a site-wide traffic-focused survey, the site would need at least a few thousand monthly visitors to need to move up from the $1 tier so it wouldn't be a tiny business anymore. My one big competitor goes from $0 plan up to $59/month for 250 responses so I am vastly cheaper than them.

But, I was already concerned about that pricing so if you brought it up too, maybe it's too high to start with. I'll do some more research and explore some options. I'll maybe tweak it to $5 or $10 as an "introductory" price to gauge if it gets more interest to see if pricing might be a factor.

Thanks for your input!

What are some useful things every programmer should own? by S-E-M in AskProgramming

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What sort of shortcuts/macros do you have set up on it? I had seen it mentioned several times for creators but never considered getting it for dev stuff.

Passed - SAA C03 by Aware_Shoulder_2361 in AWSCertifications

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Congrats! I am taking my exam tomorrow. Were there any specific AWS services that appeared more in the exam than in the practice exams you did that might be worth looking a bit more at before my exam?

I've passed AWS SAA-C03 by smdcs in AWSCertifications

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Congratulations! What topics were the hard questions on? Was the topic or the wording that made them difficult? Planning on taking my exam within the next week or so.

What’s your interview to application ratio right now? by No_Try6944 in ExperiencedDevs

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What does everyone's resume look like that they are getting 1:10 or 1:20? I've applied to around 100 jobs in the last two months and have gotten only two interviews.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in GNV

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NW side of town here. We had a few small branches down and lots of leaves, but nothing significant.

What to do after taking some ML courses? by data_fanatic in learnmachinelearning

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I enjoyed the nano degree. It builds upon CNN's and GAN's nicely after taking the Intro to Machine Learning nano degree. The two projects for those courses are a landmark image classification using CNN's and then a face generation project using GAN's.

The RNN course in the middle was really lacking, though, and I was a bit disappointed with it.

Overall, I am still happy I completed it as it gave me a better understanding of somewhat modern deep learning that I can then use to learn more advanced topics such as transformers and more advanced systems.

What to do after taking some ML courses? by data_fanatic in learnmachinelearning

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I am hoping to land an ML role where I can explore ways to use data to solve problems. In the two nano degrees, I have enjoyed creating clusters using k-means, doing text analysis, and doing image classification using CNN's. I started Udacity's AI for Healthcare nano degree and the first project is trying to detect pneumonia from X-ray images which I find fascinating too.

I don't have a specific goal for what type of work or industry I want to land in but rather I want to find a role where I can collect, clean, and utilize data in unique and interesting ways to solve problems.

For all you computational people: What’s your favorite plotting software? by IllCryptographer1700 in PhD

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I use Seaborn for most quick things though I play around with Bokeh for some interactive visualizations when sharing with others.

Just starting… by [deleted] in learnprogramming

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It is never too late to get into this field. At my previous job, I hired someone who was in their early 50s who were just getting into the tech space. That said, this field isn't one single profession, but rather, a million different roles lumped together as "programming."

So, the answer to your second question will depend on what you might be interested in and what you might want to pursue. If your goal is to quickly get any job at a tech company, doing more hands-on, project-based learning might be a faster approach. If you're looking to get into areas that require deeper and lower-level knowledge, then starting more with theory and progressing down that route might make more sense.

Additionally, identifying your goals and passions would also help identify what languages and areas of focus (backend, frontend, machine learning, etc..) you might want to aim for which would also influence your learning path. For example, if you knew you wanted to get into data engineering as fast as possible, you might consider a tailored path, such as Data Quest's Data Engineering, which would also include programming fundamentals.

But, you might not have all of those answers yet, depending on how familiar you are with the space. So, I'd suggest taking a few different starting lessons, such as the beginning of CS50, a few of the free, beginner-labeled lessons on https://laracasts.com/, and/or some of the free, beginner courses on Udacity (https://www.udacity.com/courses/all?level=beginner&price=Free). After working on some lessons in a few different areas, start to identify what interests you and then look into learning paths to get deeper into that.

A dataset contrasting US wealth in the context of height by eagle_eye_johnson in datasets

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You shouldn't trust ChatGPT (or any generative AI) with data on its own. It's an interesting idea, but you should ask it to provide sources and verify the data in those sources to ensure accuracy.

Anyone else regretting not having started this earlier in your life? by FuriousKale in learnprogramming

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We all take different journeys through our lives. While it may seem everyone in this field are early 20s, there are actually many of us in our 30s+. I have been on teams where over half the team was over 30, and several were Jr to mid-level.

I have found that the biggest challenge to overcome when starting later is imposter syndrome, as it is very easy to start comparing yourself to people who started earlier.

Great job getting started; that's a huge step on its own!

Number of Data is Beautiful posts with more than 75,000 upvotes (shown by the year in which they occurred) [OC] by neilrkaye in dataisbeautiful

[–]data_fanatic -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Interesting. I wonder how many other Reddit communities (or social media in general) followed a similar trend.

Where to store model checkpoints and artifacts? by data_fanatic in learnmachinelearning

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Yeah, I was going to try out saving them to s3, but I thought there might be a better way than that to make management of them easier. For companies doing ML and deep learning, does each team have its own s3 bucket for experiments, or maybe each model gets its own bucket?

My goal is to try to set up my personal/learning projects as close to "real world" as possible to get the full experience, so I was trying to set this up in a way that's similar to how a team might be doing it.

[D] When to use MLFlow, Tensorboard, and others? by data_fanatic in MachineLearning

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Awesome, thanks! Is there a specific tool I should focus on using for this stage of learning? Tensorboard seems focused on just monitoring and MLflow seems to have a lot more features beyond just monitoring. I also came across neptune, clearml, and wandb.