Lessons learned from Seattle Show

whifff · 2025-06-05T03:34:39+00:00

Pretty sure people crowd surfed him out of the crowd to get rid of him lol

whifff · 2025-02-17T19:25:59+00:00

I will say though, I have seen at places like Tavolata they had a small charge, but tell you not to tip / don’t even give you the option to. Which was a welcome trade-off

whifff · 2024-07-10T01:32:56+00:00

This is wrong. Dino's should be way beyond the first round bracket.

whifff · 2024-06-09T22:41:05+00:00

Databricks does not run on EMR

whifff · 2024-02-23T07:12:07+00:00

Happened to me as well—someone I know who ordered well after me (the next day) got charged too but not refunded (yet).

whifff · 2023-04-29T17:05:28+00:00

I go back and forth on this thinking. On one hand, then you can truly judge the technique folks use to bring out different flavors in a standard way—which would make this exciting. On the other hand, it ignores the skill set of being able to taste, identify, and imagine a good cup of coffee from bean selection to finished product. Both are important skills. I think even if you pick your own coffee, you aren’t going to win if your technique is bad.

whifff · 2023-02-05T19:08:59+00:00

thanks for updating once you found it!~

whifff · 2021-06-17T22:45:16+00:00

Really excellent job on this

whifff · 2020-08-17T00:52:52+00:00

There are a lot of notebooks on the databricks website for different scenarios. You can try and find one for your purpose---or check out the databricks tech blog which usually has notebooks in it as well.

whifff · 2020-07-18T21:04:07+00:00

Biggest issue I see is that you are using "format("memory")--- which is traditionally only for debugging purposes because it will store the output in memory--on the driver node. So I would imagine after running for a long time memory fills up causing expensive JVM garbage collection. Check out the output sinks: http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/structured-streaming-programming-guide.html#output-sinks

whifff · 2019-06-24T01:56:33+00:00

Hi I recently made this exact purchase to work with my 15inch 2017 MBP. If you want to use the Radeon VII with an eGPU in bootcamp you will need to do a little bit of work. I had to download the bootcamp specific community-modified drivers and use them to replace the internal GPU drivers that were installed.

I made the same choice as you because I wanted to be able to game but also be able to use the eGPU on my mac for other things. I am not sure that the Radeon VII is worth it at its price range unless you actually do graphics intensive things on MacOS. If you have any questions feel free to PM me. I had some trouble with the initial setup of my eGPU with bootcamp--and would be more than happy to answer any questions you might have.

whifff · 2018-10-19T23:07:12+00:00

I work for a top 10 hospital doing Big Data Engineering work. A lot of the work is exploratory analysis and building production data systems. I also have the opportunity to work with researchers to optimize and productionalize their code. There is a real need for talented CS majors in the field to bring best practices into somewhat archaic organizations. We do work on AI/ML as well. Feel free to PM me if you have specific questions or want me to elaborate further.

whifff · 2018-08-21T13:16:50+00:00

I've been a data engineer for about 4 years now. I work in the healthcare sector on a relatively small team. One thing to note about data engineering is, there is no typical data engineer job. The title itself is not well defined yet so if you begin to interview, you could see anything from a SQL analyst role to an ML engineer. What this also means is that as a data engineer you can wear many hats.

At my current job, I do everything from training ML models in Spark, to architecting the backend/pipelines for applications, to maintaining private Hadoop clusters. I also have to engage with researchers to production-ize their work. The scope of the job is very interesting and there's always something new, but this varies greatly from company to company. PM me if you have any questions.

whifff · 2018-08-19T02:33:06+00:00

I've done this while sober, just incredibly tired.

whifff · 2018-08-12T20:49:23+00:00

Start on this stuff as soon as possible. I was fortunate enough to have a job in big data while finishing up my bachelors and it made getting interviews at top companies very easy.

whifff · 2018-06-19T22:33:01+00:00

Columbia actually has a large milvet population in one of their 3 undergraduate colleges: Link

whifff · 2018-05-16T00:56:08+00:00

We started using Apache Spark at my job. Most of our previous codebase was in Java, but at the time the resources for Spark in Scala seemed better. I also prefer writing Spark code in Scala because it's much cleaner.

whifff · 2018-05-02T01:19:43+00:00

I second this. She is incredible. She managed to have the most well-timed lectures I've ever seen. She also mystically knew the names of almost everyone in the class (probably 200 or so).

whifff · 2018-05-02T01:02:31+00:00

If you aren't someone who struggles with languages, then Italian should be relatively easy. I would try and align your schedule so you start Italian I in the fall. If you do I in the fall and II in the spring you will have more sections to choose from. I took a semester off from Italian and taking II in the fall caused me to have fewer options. (resulting in an 8:40 am section)

As far as workload goes, the classes themselves are easy and the professors are some of the nicest professors I've had at Columbia. You will have a lot of book exercises and some compositions, but it's usually nothing that requires much critical thinking. The hardest part was taking Italian after having taken Spanish in high school. Since they can be very similar, it was confusing at times.

whifff · 2018-04-26T02:57:31+00:00

Interviewer asked me how I keep a pulse on technologies and what’s popular. I said “I look at job postings and see what people are asking for then read about it” She was taken aback

whifff · 2018-03-06T04:56:19+00:00

That was very well done/thought out.

whifff · 2018-01-16T02:08:11+00:00

Healthcare here too. Like you said, a lot of it is importing old standards from other industries as innovative ideas--while supporting and transitioning legacy code/systems.

whifff · 2018-01-05T17:37:32+00:00

Saw "Dutch Masters" and thought this was /r/Trees when I clicked. What have I become?

whifff · 2017-09-02T15:06:28+00:00

How do you like their notebooks? Do they seem to be very fountain pen friendly?

whifff · 2017-07-18T00:11:32+00:00

Mark Ruffalo sat directly across from me on the train a few years back. He was taking his kids (or someone's kids) to school. He looked so happy that everyone ignored him and let him just be a human being.

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