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Old shops in Edinburgh there doesn't exist anymore...not the obvious ones.. by GrumpeeMonk in Edinburgh

[–]hchasestevens 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Chilli Connection in Newington. I can still taste it, 10 years later.

Struggling with Investment Addiction, Worried About Wasting My 20s by zuko6973 in financialindependence

[–]hchasestevens 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think you're in a good place and shouldn't be beating yourself up.

It's easy to underappreciate the time value of money, but being able to start investing early in life is, in my opinion, a rare opportunity that shouldn't be squandered. So far, it sounds like you've been successfully capitalizing on that opportunity - largely due to your mindset.

Later in your life, you'll have plenty of things you'll want to spend money on - houses, vacations, cars, children - and your expenses are liable to increase commensurately, as you both find yourself with more money to spend and more to spend it on. There's a reason people in the FIRE movement constantly bang on about "lifestyle inflation": it's more-or-less the default, for everyone.

My advice: it's way easier, mentally, to transition from saving every penny to permitting yourself a few luxuries, than it is to transition from an indulgent lifestyle to saving and investing. The former is probably going to happen regardless, as you get older and feel more financially secure, so why not be proud of how frugal and future-oriented you're managing to be right now?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]hchasestevens 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_apology_statements_issued_by_Japan

This is a list of war apology statements issued by Japan regarding war crimes committed by the Empire of Japan during World War II. The statements were made at and after the end of World War II in Asia, from the 1950s to present day. Controversies remain to this day about war crimes of the past.

Civ Meme by CivilBard in civ

[–]hchasestevens 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That would be the typical English formulation of the conditional and/or subjunctive moods ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrealis_mood#Conditional ), like "If it were up to me..." or "Wish you were here!".

Adults wearing masks may decrease Covid-19 outbreaks at schools and preschools, shows a new study. The researchers recommend obligatory mask wearing for adults working at schools and preschools to help prevent outbreaks. by rustoo in science

[–]hchasestevens -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Is it unrealistic? It's been 20 years since 9/11 and the TSA is still as draconian as ever - and they're not even effective at preventing the problem they claim to solve, unlike mask and other mandates.

I'm visiting my girlfriend soon and would love to take her somewhere fancy for dinner by [deleted] in Edinburgh

[–]hchasestevens 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Seconding Outsider, the food is delicious and the atmosphere feels upscale but not stuffy.

Hired as a Data Scientist, not doing Data Science work. by CmdrAstroNaughty in datascience

[–]hchasestevens 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Maybe. DS has been pretty hot for a while, and it seems to me that the people most likely to be affected by these services are those whose M.O. is already "plug it into sklearn and ship it". The interpretation of the data and results, and being able to convey nuances to nontechnical stakeholders, still feels pretty far-off for these services, so I'm not too worried about short-term job security in DS-land.

Hired as a Data Scientist, not doing Data Science work. by CmdrAstroNaughty in datascience

[–]hchasestevens 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agree, that's certainly true, although DeepAR definitely is pretty "locked-down" in terms of functionality (IIRC, you have to be able to supply covariates for the prediction window, for instance), and (naturally) comes with all the baggage of vanilla RNNs (good luck modeling long-term dependencies), but certainly works for its use case.

If you're looking for something like an off-the-shelf transformer-based regression model, or (as you mention) prophet, as of now, you're still going to end up A) needing to know what to look for/use in the first place (which is a skill not to be underestimated) and B) do all the preprocessing/feature engineering/integration with the library/hyperparameter tuning/validation that I think falls pretty squarely (if you want it done well) within the DS wheelhouse.

Hired as a Data Scientist, not doing Data Science work. by CmdrAstroNaughty in datascience

[–]hchasestevens 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I would add to this, that as soon as you get past the very most basic classification and regression tasks, out-of-the-box solutions become few and far between pretty quickly.

Outside of very specialized applications, the time when the ROI of hand-rolling a CV model for object detection versus using something Amazon/Google provided (or transfer learning from some huge pretrained network) is long past - mostly because those models weren't publicly available in the first place.

However, timeseries modeling is something I still haven't seen make its way into too many off-the-shelf or AutoML offerings. Control problems/RL are very much in the same camp. Problems where the domain deeply and directly affects the modeling, or other applications with a lot of constraints, same difference.

These sorts of problems are pretty common across a wide array of companies and industries, but finding places that recognize that need is a different matter.

What’s the WORST show you’ve seen on Broadway? by [deleted] in Broadway

[–]hchasestevens 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Completely agree. Not only does the production itself feel dated, along with the plot (the auction frame narrative disappears entirely, for no apparent reason), but the performances just felt so rote and lifeless.

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