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  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Bundling existing code into python package is ridiculously easy, too.

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  • MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    Oghulk wrote: »
    Classmate said I should package up the functions I wrote in python that mimic things you can do in R for machine learning/statistical learning/statistical analysis/etc.

    How 'bout no.

    FWIW if you did that and put it on GitHub/registered the library with PyPI, as an analytics hiring manager I would take that as strong evidence that you're ready for something a little lot higher paying than that internship you're talking about in the job thread.

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  • schussschuss Registered User regular
    MrMonroe wrote: »
    Oghulk wrote: »
    Classmate said I should package up the functions I wrote in python that mimic things you can do in R for machine learning/statistical learning/statistical analysis/etc.

    How 'bout no.

    FWIW if you did that and put it on GitHub/registered the library with PyPI, as an analytics hiring manager I would take that as strong evidence that you're ready for something a little lot higher paying than that internship you're talking about in the job thread.

    You didn't go with arithmancy? For shame.

    MrMonroeOghulkBucketman
  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    god I need to get out of web development

    or at least into something with a healthier ecosystem than the wordpress/LAMP stack

    Mvrck
  • LuvTheMonkeyLuvTheMonkey High Sierra Serenade Registered User regular
    Go .net Brolo, get hired doing enterprise glue code. It's stupid easy.

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  • Macro9Macro9 Registered User regular
    I saw refurbed Xbox one x's on wish yesterday that were like 236 after the deals. Dunno if that's still going on and they're in stock though. Might be worth looking into.

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  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    Macro9 wrote: »
    I saw refurbed Xbox one x's on wish yesterday that were like 236 after the deals. Dunno if that's still going on and they're in stock though. Might be worth looking into.

    Oh, if I can get one for that cheap I'd definitely go for that.

  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    Go .net Brolo, get hired doing enterprise glue code. It's stupid easy.

    but react-like js frameworks are so hot right now

    sure they're only used for like, 6 months before being considered obsolete

    but like... gotta chase that trend

  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    webguy20 wrote: »
    Butters wrote: »
    Can they get away from disc drives yet? Is there enough sales to justify it?

    Microsoft is trying, at least for the low end model.

    It's interesting that discs are still such an integral part of the console ecosystem. About two years ago, I found a DVD at my library that wasn't on any streaming services, and it wasn't until I got it home that I realized I'd slowly upgraded myself out of almost every optical drive in the house without noticing. I had to dig out an old laptop with a half-broke screen just to find a working DVD drive so I could stream the movie to my desktop.

    I guess it has something to do with the used game market? That's really the only difference I can think of between PC and console gaming.

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  • Knight_Knight_ Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    Jedoc wrote: »
    webguy20 wrote: »
    Butters wrote: »
    Can they get away from disc drives yet? Is there enough sales to justify it?

    Microsoft is trying, at least for the low end model.

    It's interesting that discs are still such an integral part of the console ecosystem. About two years ago, I found a DVD at my library that wasn't on any streaming services, and it wasn't until I got it home that I realized I'd slowly upgraded myself out of almost every optical drive in the house without noticing. I had to dig out an old laptop with a half-broke screen just to find a working DVD drive so I could stream the movie to my desktop.

    I guess it has something to do with the used game market? That's really the only difference I can think of between PC and console gaming.

    AAA games are big, and people without good internet will tend to go console.

    Though these days you're kinda screwed anyway, I bought the division 2 on disc for the 10 dollars off and still had to download 50gb once I put the thing into the system. Basically a plastic drm key at this point.

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  • OghulkOghulk Tinychat Janitor TinychatRegistered User regular
    MrMonroe wrote: »
    Oghulk wrote: »
    Classmate said I should package up the functions I wrote in python that mimic things you can do in R for machine learning/statistical learning/statistical analysis/etc.

    How 'bout no.

    FWIW if you did that and put it on GitHub/registered the library with PyPI, as an analytics hiring manager I would take that as strong evidence that you're ready for something a little lot higher paying than that internship you're talking about in the job thread.

    Speaking seriously it's something I would consider doing. I just don't have a lot of time and have been swamped with work.

    It's a backwards and forward stepwise selection implementation. It'd take some work to get it to a more general space and make sure different scoring methods work. Maybe once summer rolls around.

  • OghulkOghulk Tinychat Janitor TinychatRegistered User regular
    I'm also pretty skeptical of the actual value in using stepwise selection methods for data analysis. And a lot of readings have kind of cemented that skepticism.

  • pimentopimento she/they/pim Registered User regular
    Jedoc wrote: »
    webguy20 wrote: »
    Butters wrote: »
    Can they get away from disc drives yet? Is there enough sales to justify it?

    Microsoft is trying, at least for the low end model.

    It's interesting that discs are still such an integral part of the console ecosystem. About two years ago, I found a DVD at my library that wasn't on any streaming services, and it wasn't until I got it home that I realized I'd slowly upgraded myself out of almost every optical drive in the house without noticing. I had to dig out an old laptop with a half-broke screen just to find a working DVD drive so I could stream the movie to my desktop.

    I guess it has something to do with the used game market? That's really the only difference I can think of between PC and console gaming.

    Gamespot would be very disappointed with the console people if they gave up on physical media entirely. A few years ago that would have been a much bigger problem than it is now, but even so I'd guess that discless would be an option on the new stuff rather than the only way.

  • schussschuss Registered User regular
    Oghulk wrote: »
    I'm also pretty skeptical of the actual value in using stepwise selection methods for data analysis. And a lot of readings have kind of cemented that skepticism.

    Unreliable techniques is like the theme of probably 50% of methods I come across. I won't say how much of my own work is in that bucket.

    MrMonroe
  • MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    schuss wrote: »
    Oghulk wrote: »
    I'm also pretty skeptical of the actual value in using stepwise selection methods for data analysis. And a lot of readings have kind of cemented that skepticism.

    Unreliable techniques is like the theme of probably 50% of methods I come across. I won't say how much of my own work is in that bucket.

    I operate under the assumption that all mathematical models of reality are "wrong" at some level of precision, which means you're always "wrong", so the best thing you can be on any given day is less wrong than you were the day before.

    So go ahead and utilize an "unreliable" technique. It's probably better than doing nothing, and you can always come back tomorrow after you've found a reliable technique and implement that instead.

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    60% of the time, it works every time.

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  • McFodderMcFodder Registered User regular
    Buying physical tends to cost me about 1/3 of digital prices so I'm still all about the discs.

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  • BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    I feel like I should get something, anything, on GitHub but I have no idea what I would do. Some of my schoolwork, like my Python K-nearest neighbor projects, or like some of my Java stuff....maybe like a Java program to sort through windows or Unix log files to find certain markers? I know theres probably a million things out there that can do that, but I should probably start somewhere

  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Anything is better than nothing. Just having some classwork up that people can skim through and get a sense of your approach to code is a plus.

    schussPolaritie
  • SporkAndrewSporkAndrew Registered User, ClubPA regular
    The only thing on my GitHub is something that grew out of a silly joke at a previous workplace

    Believe it or not this has helped me in interviews

    The one about the fucking space hairdresser and the cowboy. He's got a tinfoil pal and a pedal bin
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  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    McFodder wrote: »
    Buying physical tends to cost me about 1/3 of digital prices so I'm still all about the discs.

    Yeah. As a filthy casual I'm more than happy to just hang around and wait for my console games to go in sale for like twenty bucks while they still sell at full price online.

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  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    Butters wrote: »
    Can they get away from disc drives yet? Is there enough sales to justify it?
    They'd "have to" put SSDs in there instead. Which has not happened yet, at least on Sony's side of the fence.

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  • schussschuss Registered User regular
    MrMonroe wrote: »
    schuss wrote: »
    Oghulk wrote: »
    I'm also pretty skeptical of the actual value in using stepwise selection methods for data analysis. And a lot of readings have kind of cemented that skepticism.

    Unreliable techniques is like the theme of probably 50% of methods I come across. I won't say how much of my own work is in that bucket.

    I operate under the assumption that all mathematical models of reality are "wrong" at some level of precision, which means you're always "wrong", so the best thing you can be on any given day is less wrong than you were the day before.

    So go ahead and utilize an "unreliable" technique. It's probably better than doing nothing, and you can always come back tomorrow after you've found a reliable technique and implement that instead.

    Yep. A LOT of modern analytics is directional in nature, so you don't need it to be 100%, just complete enough that you can make the strategic recommendation of "yeah, that seems like a good idea".
    Just the other day we threw out most of the results from a popular sentiment scorer because it turns out word classification sucks when people are talking formally or diplomatically.
    However, it doesn't make the technique invalid, just one to be examined for consistency when used.

  • pimentopimento she/they/pim Registered User regular
    Sorce wrote: »
    Butters wrote: »
    Can they get away from disc drives yet? Is there enough sales to justify it?
    They'd "have to" put SSDs in there instead. Which has not happened yet, at least on Sony's side of the fence.

    I don't see that they would, a platter drive is still faster than streaming data from a bluray disc. Putting one in a luxury model could work nicely though.

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  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    pimento wrote: »
    Sorce wrote: »
    Butters wrote: »
    Can they get away from disc drives yet? Is there enough sales to justify it?
    They'd "have to" put SSDs in there instead. Which has not happened yet, at least on Sony's side of the fence.

    I don't see that they would, a platter drive is still faster than streaming data from a bluray disc. Putting one in a luxury model could work nicely though.

    Yeah, when was the last time you could play a game without copying the entire disk to the hard drive?

    BahamutZERO
  • DiarmuidDiarmuid Amazing Meatball Registered User regular
    SSDs might be still a little pricey, especially at the 500gb to 1tb range, to be standard in new consoles.

    pimento
  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    edited April 2019
    consoles desperately need faster i/o though

    its become such a huge bottleneck

    Brolo on
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  • XeddicusXeddicus Registered User regular
    The only thing on my GitHub is something that grew out of a silly joke at a previous workplace

    Believe it or not this has helped me in interviews

    @SporkAndrew In String.class.php on line 48 "L_SUCCESS = 'hooray1'," should be "L_SUCCESS = 'hooray!',", no? :P

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  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    edited April 2019
    The only thing on my GitHub is something that grew out of a silly joke at a previous workplace

    Believe it or not this has helped me in interviews

    I really like that duration lib you've got going on

    e: I feel cheated I didn't see it was a fork, how could you spork

    bowen on
    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • SporkAndrewSporkAndrew Registered User, ClubPA regular
    bowen wrote: »
    The only thing on my GitHub is something that grew out of a silly joke at a previous workplace

    Believe it or not this has helped me in interviews

    I really like that duration lib you've got going on

    e: I feel cheated I didn't see it was a fork, how could you spork

    It was forked because we needed to composer it in and at the time the guy hadn't merged a PR that added support for days. I don't like how GitHub lumps stuff that you've done nothing to with stuff you've started from scratch
    Xeddicus wrote: »
    In String.class.php on line 48 "L_SUCCESS = 'hooray1'," should be "L_SUCCESS = 'hooray!',", no? :P

    Everyone knows a 1 is a lower-case !

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  • Knight_Knight_ Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    youtube tv went up in price by 10 dollars yesterday to 50 dollars a month.

    i really liked the service when it was sports and a dvr for 35 dollars. i don't think the discovery channel is worth 120 dollars a year, this streaming future is not very good.

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    Knight_ wrote: »
    youtube tv went up in price by 10 dollars yesterday to 50 dollars a month.

    i really liked the service when it was sports and a dvr for 35 dollars. i don't think the discovery channel is worth 120 dollars a year, this streaming future is not very good.

    what is youtube TV

  • jgeisjgeis Registered User regular
    Brolo wrote: »
    Knight_ wrote: »
    youtube tv went up in price by 10 dollars yesterday to 50 dollars a month.

    i really liked the service when it was sports and a dvr for 35 dollars. i don't think the discovery channel is worth 120 dollars a year, this streaming future is not very good.

    what is youtube TV

    Cable TV but through YouTube

  • ToxTox I kill threads he/himRegistered User regular
    Motorola is rolling out Pie to z3 users.

    Just got updated this morning

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    jgeis wrote: »
    Brolo wrote: »
    Knight_ wrote: »
    youtube tv went up in price by 10 dollars yesterday to 50 dollars a month.

    i really liked the service when it was sports and a dvr for 35 dollars. i don't think the discovery channel is worth 120 dollars a year, this streaming future is not very good.

    what is youtube TV

    Cable TV but through YouTube

    ah, I swear they had a youtube TV thing that was just like... an app that let you watch youtube on your TV
    I was wondering how the hell they were charging $50/month for that

  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    can I literally watch all of TV through youtube TV? Or is it just like a few dumb channels?

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • jgeisjgeis Registered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    can I literally watch all of TV through youtube TV? Or is it just like a few dumb channels?

    I just checked, and in my zip code they offer 76 channels.

  • Knight_Knight_ Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    it was like 50 something channels. i got it to watch sports and they have a lot of sports channels.

    they're adding the discovery networks now which i guess was a sore spot between them and the other streaming tv offerings but so much money.

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  • a5ehrena5ehren AtlantaRegistered User regular
    edited April 2019
    pimento wrote: »
    Sorce wrote: »
    Butters wrote: »
    Can they get away from disc drives yet? Is there enough sales to justify it?
    They'd "have to" put SSDs in there instead. Which has not happened yet, at least on Sony's side of the fence.

    I don't see that they would, a platter drive is still faster than streaming data from a bluray disc. Putting one in a luxury model could work nicely though.

    A low-end 1TB SSD is only like $140 at retail now (the Intel 660p is $115 on Newegg today, even), which isn't too far off what a 500GB laptop drive cost in 2012.

    At console/integrated scale you would pay less than that. Another option would be phone-style UFS 2.1 storage embedded in the motherboard, which would probably cost even less.

    It would be a decent chunk of their BOM cost, but they could definitely eat it early on in anticipation of costs dropping during the lifecycle.

    a5ehren on
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  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    Yuck it's like 50% sports channels, no thanks.

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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