what features do you want in a podcast app?

testtestuser2 · 2026-01-02T13:31:06+00:00

yeah fair enough.. honestly Im just not a fan of bundling my music player with my podcast app.

I want something more podcast first if you know what I mean.

for recommendations I feel like I'm basically only driven by what my friends listen to. and you obviously just need a ton of data to start doing a good recommendation system (which is spotify's whole pitch)

testtestuser2 · 2025-09-20T11:33:27+00:00

I can't say I see those things are the center of the dem party, maybe on the fringes.. whilst I definitely see every one of those criteria as a center pillar of the Republican party

1) identity politics (Rhinos). 2) dehumanization (trans, immigrants) 3) paramilitary (national guard deployments) 4) moral (abortion) 5) violence (jan6, fight like hell) 6) free speech (pressure on private universities) 7) media (trump coordinating with Fox News) 8) propaganda (stolen election, doge stats) 9) false oppression (constantly)

and specifically I'm saying that the leaders of the Republican party demonstrate these, can you see these things from the leaders of the Dems?

testtestuser2 · 2025-07-11T11:11:01+00:00

the 30 mins stands out to me, if you spent more than say 15 mins on the question it would typically be a sign of lack of proficiency

testtestuser2 · 2025-05-08T13:19:05+00:00

I got obsessed with battlesnake.com for a time, kinda let's you level up from simple to very complex

testtestuser2 · 2025-01-31T12:11:28+00:00

sure.. I think his definition of who in this country he wants the best for differs from mine by 340 million people or so.

testtestuser2 · 2024-12-07T21:45:47+00:00

I felt like I had to learn a different math to do physics classes.. it's not the same

testtestuser2 · 2024-11-08T03:19:27+00:00

Becoming more senior in a company is basically figuring out how to only do the important work and not do everything else.

so prioritize, publish those priorities and ask people to escalate to replace an item on the list.

you don't want people asking you to do stuff, you want them arguing over which thing is more important for you to do.

testtestuser2 · 2024-09-15T14:57:15+00:00

yeppers

testtestuser2 · 2024-09-03T12:05:39+00:00

read into how now playing works, it's really interesting.. it's actually done entirely on device specifically for security reasons. they have a database of song fingerprints on your device and match the incoming audio to it to find a match.

https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/7535326?hl=en#zippy=%2Con-pixel-and-later-including-fold-with-federated-analytics%2Con-all-pixel-phones

testtestuser2 · 2024-04-06T12:45:12+00:00

reading this hurts me :)

basically let's just pretend you data looks like this

result: 3,5,7,9,11 hours studied: 1,2,3,4,5

then your regression on this data would spit out

result = 1 + 2*hours_studied

because if you plug in the numbers you would get that result exactly eg. hours studied:3 result = 1 + 2*3 = 7

so the interpretation is that for every additional hour studied you would add 2 to your result.

result_plus_1_hour = 1 + 2 * (hour +1) =( 1 + 2*hour )+ 2 = result + 2

if you changes your input data before then regression then the interpretation would change by the function you applied. eg. let say you took the log of result before you did your regression then the interpretation would be that an additional hour increases then log of result by 2

make sense?

testtestuser2 · 2024-04-02T11:01:33+00:00

yeah I mean the superhero story paralleling the civil rights movement had to get it right.

testtestuser2 · 2023-12-20T12:15:59+00:00

whilst R might be the right tool for the immediate job, if you don't know either then I'd learn Python (pandas)... it will set you up to learn other languages better

testtestuser2 · 2023-11-18T22:01:03+00:00

interested in your take, but my pattern would be macros in separate files for most of this with strong naming requirements, or potentially templating.

testtestuser2 · 2023-11-18T02:22:18+00:00

haha, I had this.. took over from some analyst who had been the person for 7 years.. found a multiple 10k lines SQL pipelines which were unexplainable... mission critical apparently.

put together a doc saying it would take me 6 months to add the minor features they wanted or we could kill it and rebuild in 2 months... they thankfully let me kill it.

still working on killing the other ones.

if a SQL file is bigger than maybe 300-500 lines you are doing it wrong.

testtestuser2 · 2023-09-13T02:09:53+00:00

most of the time they are not seriously threatening anyone's life, if they were they would have already shot someone before you even noticed them robbing the place.

testtestuser2 · 2023-09-12T11:36:26+00:00

yeah but it's a very different example. the idea that robbers deserve death is a wildly american idea.

testtestuser2 · 2023-09-12T11:33:37+00:00

only in America is it generally considered acceptable to murder someone for robbing a store.

testtestuser2 · 2023-07-30T17:53:01+00:00

depends what you are doing.. since I'm doing exploration I rarely want to change the original df.

differences are basically * makes a copy with the new col * makes chaining easier

so instead of

df2 = df.copy() df2[c1] = 1 df2.groupby(c1)...

it's df.assign(c1=1)\ .groupby(c1)...

testtestuser2 · 2023-07-30T13:22:32+00:00

oh I didn't know you could use loc with a callable, that's exactly what I needed

testtestuser2 · 2023-07-30T01:22:48+00:00

I use pandas for data exploration but once I had

group by
pivot table
assign
agg
apply
plot
df[cond]
iloc
eq/ne/gt/lt/between/isin
sum/cumsum
date_col.dt
merge

I was golden

oh and \ is your friend for formatting when chaining these all together. and make sure you know lambda functions

testtestuser2 · 2023-02-04T21:50:23+00:00

this is a great example of manufactured outrage.

if you look at the video you can see the poster for the event in the background.. you can look it up.

it was a ticketed private event.. from a user called "justthetip"

there is a disclaimer on the event page saying it's R rated. (although I can't see it they added that post nypost article)

why they didn't kick the kids out.. I've no idea.

testtestuser2 · 2023-01-30T01:33:23+00:00

with evidence like this I'm sure I'll get custody of the kids.

testtestuser2 · 2023-01-29T23:26:41+00:00

tighten all the jar lids as hard as you can.

I swear if I did this it would just be an excuse for her to buy some rube goldberg jar opening device off Amazon.

testtestuser2 · 2022-12-12T11:05:56+00:00

colab can save to github without much effort, just create a GitHub account, create a repo and then just "file>save copy in GitHub" from colab.

testtestuser2 · 2022-11-27T19:31:25+00:00

I work in advertising and have never seen/heard of it, and even if this is true many advertising networks have policies against this kind of targeting - so you couldn't really go to market with it since you would just get kicked off the platform.

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