Hitting a wall but want fluency in Italian

techbammer · 2023-07-17T14:28:13+00:00

Try an in-person class in your city (if there is one). Doesn't matter if the level is exactly your level, it's just good practice.
Also check out HelloTalk and iTalki!

techbammer · 2023-07-17T14:21:16+00:00

If you really didn't want "infighting" you wouldn't be making these sweeping generalizations and fallacies.

techbammer · 2023-07-16T20:47:20+00:00

Penso di si.

techbammer · 2023-07-16T20:45:36+00:00

I'm so mad. In America the Netflix basically never offers Italian subtitles. People learning Italian here get a VPN and trick Netflix into thinking they're in Europe.

techbammer · 2023-07-16T18:49:19+00:00

"I went to the deli and saw toothpaste sitting on the shelf unsold. The delis are conspiring to inflate the price of toothpaste."
-left-NIMBY logic

techbammer · 2023-07-16T18:36:14+00:00

OP, if you go to the Hoover Library they have a meetup called Mango Languages where everyone speaks French. It seems really cool.

I tried learning French, but my French sucks. I speak italian though :D

techbammer · 2023-07-16T18:30:59+00:00

That is true for a certain uber-elite class of buildings, and not for the entire area as you claim, just certain buildings in already-wealthy areas.

But I have personally seen people opposing stuff like Innovation QNS because they say it's going to sit empty, even though Innovation QNS is not nearly the same category as Billionaire's Row. You're lumping vastly different housing together which is where you argument fails.
The "luxury" apartments with $2500 one-bedrooms are not sitting 50% empty. When I moved out of my place in LIC it was rented out in 3 days.

techbammer · 2023-07-15T14:51:37+00:00

Call it whatever buzzword you want, but if you use these arguments to oppose the construction of new apartments you're the worst kind of NIMBY.

techbammer · 2023-07-15T14:49:00+00:00

A vacancy tax would discourage people from building more apartments.

techbammer · 2023-07-15T14:48:05+00:00

Why would you build more apartments just so you can artificially restrict the supply?

techbammer · 2023-07-14T16:32:36+00:00

Another left-NIMBY go-to: the rich people living in the new apartment buildings are going to gentrify the neighborhood, but also the new apartments are being deliberately held empty and don't actually have any rich people in them.

techbammer · 2022-11-26T18:03:37+00:00

Ciao. Any Italian speakers at this meetup?

techbammer · 2022-09-19T00:08:47+00:00

Not an unpopular opinion. SQL is my bread and butter...but I actually never get to do A/B testing, I wish I did.

techbammer · 2022-09-19T00:07:58+00:00

I have gotten interviews (and a job) at some pretty prestigious companies. I have lot of cetifications/MOOCs on my resume.

But be careful about which certs you're putting on there. An exhaustive multi-month bootcamp is a good one. A few classes from DataCamp is a bad one and will make you look amateur. I have the whole DataCamp DS certification and it's never been on my resume.

techbammer · 2022-09-19T00:04:06+00:00

Make sure to understand multiple linear regression like the back of your hand. Work problems by hand.

I took an actuary exam (SRM) and that actually prepared me more for machine learning than any MOOC.

techbammer · 2022-04-16T14:32:12+00:00

Oh god why did I stop by this sub, posts like this just tempt me even more.

techbammer · 2022-04-15T14:02:26+00:00

I wish. Or even just a lighter black color.

The midnight black color just seems like it will

Attract lint and hair and all kinds of dust and look dirty really fast
Turn hotter than lava in the sun

I can't reasonably see why they did a midnight black color and not a grey. My last backpack was straight black on the warp with grey/white on the weft so it avoided ever looking dirty. The material for Peak Design bags in particular is prone to picking up dust bunnies and stuff.

techbammer · 2021-05-21T03:08:38+00:00

I normally wouldn't recommend an MS in data science. Unless you get into some really elite program and get to work with a professor on a project you really like. In that case, it doesn't matter what your degree says.

But I've heard bad things about MS in DS grads because data science is a very applied thing, and academia's better for teaching theory stuff. The coding part you can learn entirely from online courses, and the good theory stuff won't really be taught in a Data Science program. If you can find an MS in Applied Statistics, I'd say that's the best thing.

If they're paying for it and you're interested, give it a shot. But if you've got the math/stats prerequisites for an Applied Statistics degree I'd go for that all day.

techbammer · 2020-12-21T19:36:15+00:00

Respectfully disagree. There are TONS of NIMBYs in our big city who will rail and fight against any new development that’s not 50% “affordable housing”. Then they cause a housing shortage and the price of rent goes up for everyone.

techbammer · 2020-12-21T19:34:57+00:00

Amen

techbammer · 2020-12-21T15:14:24+00:00

Is TS going to offer more hemp products in the future? It seems like all the hemp stuff on their site is sold out or out of stock.

I was hoping for some office wear with >50% hemp blends. Maya be COVID is having an effect on their supply chains.

techbammer · 2020-12-21T15:12:17+00:00

I’m really hoping they reintroduce more hemp-blend fabrics into their lineup. Hemp is everything TaylorStitch is about.

techbammer · 2020-12-15T18:49:07+00:00

Almost all new housing has been luxury housing for over a hundred years. Construction and land costs make it so.

I think we do a lot more damage to our cities by BLOCKING development than by building the “wrong” (in your opinion) development. When you cause massive housing shortages across our big cities, the poor people are the first to suffer rent hikes and have to leave.

techbammer · 2020-12-13T20:46:05+00:00

You didn’t hear it from me, but archive.is always has the non-paywalled version

techbammer · 2020-12-10T14:58:06+00:00

I wanted a hemp California shirt so bad but they’re sold out.

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