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reeboo commented on Yes I Will Read Ulysses Yes theatlantic.com/magazine/... · Posted by u/petethomas

JadeNB · 9 months ago

> Why not both? Listen and read along.

Have you done that successfully for any book? I've never tried, but it seems likely to me to be very difficult, unless you happen to read at exactly the narrator's pace.

reeboo · 9 months ago

This is how I cured my dyslexia.

reeboo commented on Making a trading Gameboy: A pocket exchange and algo trading platform questdb.io/blog/making-a-... · Posted by u/bluestreak

TheTank · a year ago

Author here. Thanks for reading this post. I had fun making this and thought the path that led me to this might be interesting for others.

I’m really interested in feedback and ideas on things I could improve and add. I found this really inspiring as it got me more into programming, discovering electronics, and 3d printing.

I have no desire to ever make this project commercial, but it’s been a great platform for me to learn and experiment new things so I’ll take any idea be it for the gameplay or purely technical. Some features I have in mind are:

- Multiplayer over bluetooth where one device is the ‘game-master’ running the exchange and can monitor and guide players while injecting events.

- Additional quoting algos such as pegging one side of the order book and fighting for position

- A tutorial and better UI. The game is hard to pick up for the first time and probably needs to be made more intuitive etc.

While all of this was made with no practical use in mind (there are a lot of markets and products, and you’d trade them in different ways, so you’d need a different game to speak to a volatility trader for example), some people I work with at various trading desks found it useful for interviews or as an introduction to the idea of market-making for junior people.

reeboo · a year ago

What resources would you recommend for learning more about market-making?

reeboo commented on Papermill: Parameterizing, executing, and analyzing Jupyter Notebooks github.com/nteract/paperm... · Posted by u/mooreds

Kalanos · a year ago

Is this still being developed? The last commit to the main library was 5 months ago and its tied to exceptions/tests.

reeboo · a year ago

It's a thin wrapper around notebooks. Does it really need more features? Not saying that it couldn't, but it is feature complete for what its job is.

reeboo commented on Papermill: Parameterizing, executing, and analyzing Jupyter Notebooks github.com/nteract/paperm... · Posted by u/mooreds

mcpar-land · a year ago

What is the benefit of parameterizing a jupyter notebook over just writing python that's not in a jupyter notebook? I like jupyter notebooks for rapid prototyping but once I want to dial some logic in, I switch to just writing a .py file.

reeboo · a year ago

As an MLE who comes from backend web dev, I have flip-flopped on notebooks. I initially felt that everything should be in a python script. But I see the utility in notebooks now.

For notebooks in an ML pipeline, I find that data issues are usually where things fail. Being able to run code "up to" a certain cell and create plots is invaluable. Creating reports by creating a data frame and displaying it as a cell is also super-handy.

You say, "dial some logic in", which is begging the wrong question (in my experience, at least). The logic in ML is usually very strait forward. It's about the data coming into your process and how your models are interacting with it.

reeboo commented on Ask HN: Machine learning engineers, what do you do at work? · Posted by u/Gooblebrai

singularity2001 · 2 years ago

Teaching others python.

reeboo · 2 years ago

Underrated comment. At my place of work, I find this to be a huge part of the MLE job. Everyone knows R but none of the cloud tools have great R support.

reeboo commented on Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution effectiviology.com/shirky... · Posted by u/walterbell

malfist · 2 years ago

Please tell me, what companies are involved in the "homeless industrial complex" and what industrial product do they produce?

reeboo · 2 years ago

https://www.wweek.com/news/city/2024/02/22/city-will-scrap-2...

reeboo commented on Internet Brands CEO on RTO: "We aren't asking or negotiating at this point." twitter.com/MorePerfectUS... · Posted by u/smoothjazz

reeboo · 2 years ago

I honestly can't tell, is this real or a comedy sketch?

reeboo commented on Ask HN: Do you homeschool? · Posted by u/hazard

cvccvroomvroom · 2 years ago

Change schools or move somewhere with better schools.

Unless you have a stay-at-home spouse and don't care about their socialization, homeschooling is an impractical fad that sabotages children's academic achievement and throws division of labor and specialization of trade to the wind under the mistaken presumption of ability brought on by Dunning-Kruger effect and a willful lack of comparison to the experiences of good schools.

reeboo · 2 years ago

> Dunning-Kruger effect

https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2022/04/08/the-dunning-k...

reeboo commented on Students are submitting answers saying “I am an AI language model” futurism.com/the-byte/stu... · Posted by u/ironyman

indymike · 3 years ago

Looks like oral exams are about to make a big return.

reeboo · 3 years ago

How would that work in a public school setting? Seems like there are too many kids and not enough teachers/time to implement this across all subjects.

If you are right, and oral exams become the best way to evaluate student learning, then I could see smaller private schools becoming more popular as a correlation.

reeboo commented on Quantum physics falls apart without imaginary numbers scientificamerican.com/ar... · Posted by u/wrycoder

andrew_eu · 3 years ago

There is much more to the history of complex numbers, and that is also worth a read [0]. In particular, Gauss was very against the term "imaginary numbers" because it implies some mystery around them. I vaguely remember reading that he preferred the term "lateral" numbers, but that may be a mistake. Euler's formula connects them very plainly with rotations in a complex number plane.

The intuition I developed with them while studying physics was that, unlike "real" numbers which interact by stacking, complex numbers interact by stacking and rotating. This is bizarre to think about with single numbers in a 1D world, but we don't live in a 1D world. In higher dimensions they rotate and sheer rather than just scale.

And indeed, QM (at least as it was thought to me) would fall apart without complex numbers. Whether a physical theory can be consistent without them is an interesting question, but not because a physical theory with them creates some kind of metaphysical paradox.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_number#History

reeboo · 3 years ago

Here is fun, and rather short, book on the history of complex numbers that I liked -- https://www.amazon.com/Imaginary-Tale-Princeton-Science-Libr...