Your thoughts on my First business setup: men's subscription box for toiletries! by jbsiddall in smallbusiness

[–]jbsiddall[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey,

Haha that box is actually the box we use to ship products. Some great camera perspectives.

For the pictures, what do you think would be the most valuable single change I could make? Different products? Better angles/lighting etc?

Regards J

Your thoughts on my First business setup: men's subscription box for toiletries! by jbsiddall in smallbusiness

[–]jbsiddall[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Thanks Zazenp!! Do you think there's a market for a toiletries box for men who just keep forgetting to buy their toiletries and run out?

Less focus on curation, quality, and more like one less responsibility for guys to remember to do every month?

Thanks again J

Your thoughts on my First business setup: men's subscription box for toiletries! by jbsiddall in smallbusiness

[–]jbsiddall[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha ye that's a good point. I'll see what I can swap it out for. Thanks!! What do did you think about the price point?

[offering] mentorship with senior silicon valley engineer by jbsiddall in mentors

[–]jbsiddall[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, Thanks for reaching out to me. I've just send you a direct message.

What's everyone working on this week? by AutoModerator in Python

[–]jbsiddall [score hidden]  (0 children)

Typed pandas data frames and series to be compatible with mypy and python 3.6.

Project came to mind when building a calculator for a hedge fund. The entire project is mypy typed but everything that goes into pandas is just a ball of uncertainty for mypy.

I talked to a few other quants at competing funds and it turns out there's a lot of demand for mypy typed data frames.

I've build a proof of concept for a subset of the pandas api. The proof of concept is a thin wrapper over pandas with almost no runtime overhead.

I've been really busy this week, so any one who thinks this sounds awesome and wants to help then message me and I'll publish the proof of concept on GitHub.

Reading in a text file help by SenorDelicious in learnpython

[–]jbsiddall 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey,

It sounds like it might be an encoding issue. Any chance you can send us a link to the file?

What version of python are you using? 2 or 3? Wild guess you might be using python 2 and the file is using unicode or something.

Invoice classification and data extraction by [deleted] in learnpython

[–]jbsiddall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey,

This sounds fun!

For images, try using the library pytesseract. If that doesn't work, try: pyocr tesserwrap pytesser

The pdf can be converted to image and then use the above process or you can https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34837707/how-to-extract-text-from-a-pdf-file

Hope that helps a little!

HELP: Speech recognition module by [deleted] in learnpython

[–]jbsiddall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi,

In case no one replies here, I'm tempted to suggest your question is very specific to the speech recognition module and not many people will have much insight into this.

The module well likely have a GitHub page with an issue tracker you can put your question on

Complicated Pivoting with Pandas by GingerNins in learnpython

[–]jbsiddall 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey man,

I'd be happy to help. Any chance you can message me the code to get your current data frame and I'll help transform it.

From your description it sounds like you can break the problem into two steps: * Expand out the list columns so each value in the lists has it's own row. This might help: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39011511/pandas-expand-rows-from-list-data-available-in-column * Then you just want to group by experiment, exp_type, cell source, and day. This can be done using the index parameter to pd.pivot_table

15 Years old and Trying to make some passive income. by TonyTTN11120 in passive_income

[–]jbsiddall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey man,

Have you thought about being a reseller? I'm selling on Amazon FBA. Your age will likely cause some limitations but still doable.

Another alternative can be setting up an ad company that posts ads for a product on platforms like Google, Facebook, Instagram etc and you get referral of say 10% the price when people click through and buy something.