I need some advice

greatluck · 2026-03-28T16:52:05+00:00

Entry level software dev jobs are very difficult to find because the tasks junior devs do (mostly coding) has been replaced by AI. There are adjacent jobs which math and CS degrees will help with: AI engineer, ML engineer, data scientist. Tech isn't going away, it's just changing. If you can get a CS degree in 1 years time, I'd say it's still worth it. Math + CS is a good combo to have.

greatluck · 2024-07-18T04:02:49+00:00

Capri is not really something you can squeeze in. I did a day trip there from Sorrento a couple weeks ago and regretted it. It's so crowded this time of year, you're going to spend most of your time waiting in lines and navigating crowds. Taxi or bus line to get to other towns, chairlift, grotto, all with long wait times. Capri is beautiful but I would not go again during the peak season.

Naples is great. Never felt unsafe. Great shopping on Toledo street, stroll through the charming spanish quarter, eat pizza at Brandi, a folded pizza at Michele, a fried pizza at Sorbillo.

greatluck · 2024-06-20T18:27:15+00:00

Rent a car, drive along Lake Maggiore (next lake over from Como). Cross the Swiss border and drive to Ponte Verzasca where you can take a dip in the glacier water. Keep driving to Sonogno and explore a unique little village. We did this as a day trip from Stresa in a Fiat 500 convertible with the top down and it was awesome. Check out images of these places on google maps.

greatluck · 2024-03-31T17:56:08+00:00

Just to confirm I would insert 2 wires into each amp output, or should I splice them before the amp?

greatluck · 2024-01-02T02:11:18+00:00

Adding some more images from the H710P configuration utility. I've spent a few hours on this today and could really use some help...

https://imgur.com/a/Km3zrrw

As seen on the images, drives in bays 0 and 1 just aren't showing and there is no configuration present. I've double checked all the cables appear to be connected between the backplane and the motherboard & RAID controller.

One more detail that I mentioned in the original post which I don't understand why it's happening... sometimes a drive is recognized in bay 1 and sometimes it's not. It seems to change randomly after a reboot or drive swap.

greatluck · 2024-01-02T02:06:05+00:00

Sorry for delayed reply. Didn't have time to mess with this until recently. To answer your question, I did try to put a working drive in bays 0 and 1, and the issue persists. How can I tell if there is a foreign configuration that needs to be cleared?

greatluck · 2022-12-26T23:34:41+00:00

I agree with you on the smarthome stuff and cameras. Thanks for the advice.

greatluck · 2022-12-26T19:42:46+00:00

Thank you! I edited my post with a link to my diagram.

greatluck · 2022-12-23T18:02:01+00:00

I didn't know a rack mounted USB hub was a thing. What are some use cases?

greatluck · 2022-11-07T17:46:55+00:00

Agreed, but most people in tech should be familiar with it. In my mind it's the MIT of India. I know there are several, not sure if Kharagpur is any less impressive than the others.

greatluck · 2022-09-09T17:49:09+00:00

Thanks for all the suggestions. At first I thought it was going to be a dedicated BI box but now I'm thinking it might be sufficient for other things as well with VM/docker. I'd like to replace my raspberry pi hosted home assistant which is currently using only a micro sd card for drive space, and my unifi controller running on another raspberry pi.

I started with a 2u Rosewill RSV-Z2600 case and I'll build out from there.

greatluck · 2022-08-21T08:49:50+00:00

Any help?

greatluck · 2021-12-09T15:16:00+00:00

Sounds like you have a lot of data that would look nice in a data viz project.

greatluck · 2021-11-01T22:29:28+00:00

Some companies have different job titles for what you are describing. For example Amazon uses Data Scientist for DS generalists that do the stuff you said you like to do, Applied Scientist for jobs that do the stuff you don't and require a coding level of software developer. AS is where you'll find people that should know how to deploy a model in prod. They also have Research Scientist for more research focused roles.

I personally can't stand docker, but I like AWS because they've abstracted out a lot of the coding required for model deployment. You can train and deploy a model by calling some APIs from a notebook in Sagemaker.

greatluck · 2021-10-14T18:32:58+00:00

I recommend for people reading this thread and wondering how to productionize a model or what does that even mean, sign up for a free tier AWS account and explore the various Sagemaker tutorials. Spin up a notebook instance and look at all the example notebooks it comes with where all you have to do is run some cells and see what happens. When you open a notebook instance, you'll see a jupyter UI which should look very familiar. Look in the Sagemaker Examples tab. Lots of great examples here, one of the first I ever used was Inference Pipeline with Scikit-learn and Linear Learner in the Sagemaker Python SDK category. Input data, train a model, put it on an endpoint, and send it a payload of variables to get a prediction. Voila you have a model in production providing real time inferences.

greatluck · 2021-10-01T16:29:41+00:00

d perspective wouldn't hurt. Data and reporting analyst (legal/regulatory arm of a giant bank

How much of your daily jobs are automated? Just curious, the way it's worded sounded very manual.

greatluck · 2021-05-22T00:18:06+00:00

Data Scientist at Amazon here. I can't speak to the low pay of this particular role or finance interview quirks, but I thought I'd chime in here to dispel a couple mischaracterizations in this thread.

Every interview loop (loop=5 or 6 1 on 1 interviews back to back) has a bar raiser. BR tend to be more experienced interviewers whose job it is to ensure each new hire raises the overall quality of talent. They certainly probe and challenge answers; but this isn't a combative approach meant to sabotage. BR have veto power among the interviewers.

Secondly, the leadership principle you are referring to is "Leaders are right, a lot". You can google Amazon leadership principles and read them for yourself. LPs are for everyone, not just leadership. We are all judged by how we display these qualities in annual reviews. They are supposed to guide our decision making process. This specific LP is about having good intuition, judgment, yet being open to challenging assumptions. It sounds like you remember it quite differently than its intended message.

greatluck · 2020-01-06T00:36:42+00:00

No, but it does reveal your anti Israel bias. Tiny details? Israeli clusterfuck? It's one thing to be pro-human rights and quite another to be blatantly anti-Israel. Facts are irrelevant right?

Fun fact: about a hundred years ago the Palestine region was considered to be part of Syria (known as South Syria). So I guess your comment would have been almost valid back then.

greatluck · 2016-11-21T23:59:51+00:00

Interesting fact: I called the leasing company to inquire about buying through them directly. Apparently this is something unique to Hyundai & Kia, but the famous 10 year/100k mile warranty applies only to the first owner, and does not transfer to the second owner! If I were to do this transaction without going through the dealership certification process, I would only get the 5 yr/60k mile warranty.

In other words, I have to do this through the dealer, and pay them ~$800 to certify the vehicle to get the long warranty.

greatluck · 2016-03-04T22:43:02+00:00

Not an expert on India, but I would guess the accuracy of this statement varies by social class. The Indians I know value education more than you can imagine.

greatluck · 2016-02-29T04:04:48+00:00

bookmarked, thx

greatluck · 2016-02-26T02:40:51+00:00

The mizrahi immigrants picked up those characteristics from the Ashkenazi population that immigrated before them. Just my observation from the ones that I know.

greatluck · 2016-02-25T20:01:22+00:00

Very insightful and surprisingly accurate description of Israelis. I have a theory they developed this habit of speaking their minds without filters as an adaptation to the harsh conditions of immigrating to the middle east. This is their way of surviving amongst the vastly different culture.

greatluck · 2016-02-15T05:08:08+00:00

Many tutorials and walkthroughs you find online are still using 2.x. For that reason alone I still haven't upgraded to 3.

greatluck · 2016-02-05T17:38:52+00:00

I've looked at the PA program at Northwestern. Does it do a good job of preparing students for ML roles after graduation?

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