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apwheele
1,887karma·374submissions·November 10, 2021
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Data scientist. Former academic in criminal justice field.
Personal blog at https://andrewpwheeler.com/
Consulting at https://crimede-coder.com/
Large Language Models for Mortals: A Practical Guide for Analysts (book), https://crimede-coder.com/blogposts/2026/LLMsForMortals
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Can folks comment on what applications they use k-means for? It was a basic technique I learned in school, but honestly I am not really familiar with a single use case that is very clearly motivated b…
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You might reach out to the folks at the Institute for Justice, they have written letters to the cities to get the cameras taken down in these scenarios, https://ij.org/press-release&#x…
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Oh nice, thank you for that tip. I was doing the opposite, `new_obj = mod.Class(...)` and then assigning the dicts from the old object (which was when I realized the pickle save/load was easier).
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Here is my take -- if you wanted some sort of app that required complicated regression modelling to happen client side (and the data is not crazy big), this would be a decent option. So you just ser…
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I don't disagree with the fundamentals of the post (most stuff is vapid, not just on LinkedIn but other platforms as well). But I still personally have benefitted the most from LinkedIn for grass…
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I mean, for the main simulation I would do it like this: set.seed(10)
n <- 10000; samp_size <- 60
df <- data.frame(
uniform = runif(n, min = -20, max = 20),
norm…
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These are 100% people who claim to be senior ICs with years of developer experience in python. The resume thing that list being expert in dozens of libraries, etc. It is even less tricky than you are …
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The rub is the take home assignments are not good either. I do personally let people pass the tech if they have good open source work (a good tech blog, legit python repo's, not just trivial home…
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I expect `python hello_world.py`, but if people are confused I just nudge them to what I expect. It is not meant to be a trick question. If people do not have local setup, I just have them write out i…
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Even before the coding assistants I was not happy with homework. It was not discriminatory, everyone looked the same, https://andrewpwheeler.com/2022/03/24/i-have-no-clu…
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I do simple questions similar to the quoted LinkedIn post. (So less leetcode and more "do you know how to code anything".) While I can agree it is harder under stress, what is the alternativ…
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Client side it is aggregations of the data, (so yes you could run out of memory). DuckDB does not load all of the data client side.
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