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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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So I am tiny fish, https://www.linkedin.com/company/crime-de-coder/ , so not quite sure what typical impressions look like for the big influencers (currently my company webpa…
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I have a question I ask people I interview now for data science jobs -- can you run a python hello world from the command line? A non-trivial number of people who say they have multiple years of data …
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Data scientist, and I have had a few examples of seemingly simple "how would you build a schema" job interview questions that I had a difficult time with on the spot. So last one I remember …
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When you get asked questions IMO I would just swap out your experience for equivalent, e.g. do you have Jenkins experience - no, but I have created my own automated CICD processes to build test and pu…
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IMO the long acting drugs + more intensive caseworker intervention is the most feasible way for the very difficult to work with individuals. (Long acting is good for opioids as well, https:/…
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I have not used this specific tool, but have used https://community.coherentpdf.com/ for the cropping/rescaling. And in general "printing" (posters) is what I have used…
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So showing up 1-2 minutes earlier does indeed increase survival rates. For instances in which someone is actually shot, I estimate that -2 minutes = 1% increase in survival, https://link.sp…
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High yields are 5% now -- I get who cares about 2k now, personally I wish I did the high yield earlier. I did somewhat similar to OP for maybe 10 years and lost out on low 5 figures when I go back and…
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I imagine you have gotten this advice before, but IMO a high yield savings probably makes sense. Say keep 10k in checking for bills, and then the other 40k in high yield. It will more than easily pay …
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I am speaking more generally of the industry. You can look at my profile and follow the bread-trail to see whom I work for. It is not insurance, we are a client of state systems, and I work to do the …
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The scale of health insurance claims is incredible, my company has a process that simply identifies when car insurance should pay the bill instead of medicaid/medicare post traffic accident (subr…
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Similar to pmx's point, an implicit assumption in this (which is unlikely to be true in many scenario's) is that the there is a negligible spread in the distribution of revenue per customer.…
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Yep, https://duckdb.org/docs/extensions/azure