Hacker News: methusala8

New comment by methusala8 in "Solveit – A course and platform for solving problems with code"

methusala8 — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 06:30:24 +0000

A great course and helps with learning proactively and not reactively. Important in this age of ai. I was part of cohort 1 and have enrolled for the next one.

New comment by methusala8 in "Ask HN: When was the last time you visited Stack Overflow?"

methusala8 — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 02:53:21 +0000

More than 2 years ago. LLM's are good at explaining things that I do not understand. And I do not need to vist 10 pages to search for the answer.

New comment by methusala8 in "Ask HN: If you were to start a business outside of tech, what would it be?"

methusala8 — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 09:34:11 +0000

I would love to transition into counselling. If I can make ends meet with it, It would be sufficient.

New comment by methusala8 in "Ask HN: How are people using ChatGPT to increase productivity in personal life?"

methusala8 — Fri, 30 May 2025 08:49:33 +0000

Diving deeper into exercise posture correction and journalling/motivation.

New comment by methusala8 in "Ask HN: Resources for learning about AI models"

methusala8 — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:48:03 +0000

This blog has extensive writings on both the things you are looking for : https://simonwillison.net/

New comment by methusala8 in "Ask HN: Is there money in RAG?"

methusala8 — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 17:57:31 +0000

There is a lot of other algorithms that are useful and provide value

can you please elaborate? Thanks.

New comment by methusala8 in "Ask HN: What is your default notes app?"

methusala8 — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 12:37:53 +0000

Dendron all the way.Very rarely use pen and paper. Many of my notes are from the web.

New comment by methusala8 in "Ask HN: Who needs help this holidays?"

methusala8 — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 16:05:59 +0000

Just sent an email. Thanks so much for this initiative.

Ask HN: Does Chat GPT and Code interpreter signal end of Data science?

methusala8 — Mon, 08 May 2023 02:12:35 +0000

Looking at some of the impressive capabilities of Chat gpt + code interpreter, I wonder how long the data science role will still be relevant? [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lia5dLO1VE

[2] https://roundup.getdbt.com/p/is-oss-the-future-of-ai

Edited post based on comments. Added a new link where the plugin can consume 60mb csv file and come up with findings

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35857373

Points: 3

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New comment by methusala8 in "Ask HN: Resources for Fluency with Pandas?"

methusala8 — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 04:53:50 +0000

Complete Pandas Bootcamp on Udemy.

New comment by methusala8 in "I need your help. I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around ChatGPT"

methusala8 — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 11:06:07 +0000

What would be the fundamentals that would stand this AI onslaught?

New comment by methusala8 in "Ask HN: How do I thrive in an AI dominated future?"

methusala8 — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 04:41:18 +0000

Prompt engineer : Someone who is quite good at providing the right prompts in order to guide ai towards the solution that is needed.

New comment by methusala8 in "Ask HN: What note taking websites/applcations do you use?"

methusala8 — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 21:14:53 +0000

The main impediment for knowledge retrieval in apps like obsidian/roam etc. are that the notes cannot be retrieved easily, especially as the number of notes scale. (Maybe, Obsidian users might disagree with this point, but that was my assessment.)

Dendron is built for ease of retrieval of notes. It is built mostly for devs. Now, I can retrieve forgotten syntax easily in Dendron when compared to other apps. The fact that is is built on top of VS code helps.

New comment by methusala8 in "Ask HN: What note taking websites/applcations do you use?"

methusala8 — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 19:37:31 +0000

Dendron for its blazing speed and its ease of use.

https://www.dendron.so/

New comment by methusala8 in "Ask HN: What's Your Biggest Regret?"

methusala8 — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 10:48:09 +0000

I would go back and complete education rather than dropping out of school. I had to waste 7 years of my life in order to understand the importance of education.

Eventually, got a Masters in Statistics. But I wish I could run this back and get those lost years.

New comment by methusala8 in "Kim Jung Gi has died"

methusala8 — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 09:07:34 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jung_Gi

Wiki entry for those, like me, unsure who Kim Jung GI is.

New comment by methusala8 in "Ask HN: Books for Reevaluation of Life"

methusala8 — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 18:02:30 +0000

I am that by Nisargadatta Maharaj or Freedom from the known by J.Krishnamurti.

You may disagree with what they are saying, but these books will give you a new perspective.

New comment by methusala8 in "Ask HN: How to get some money on the side using my SRE and DevOps experience?"

methusala8 — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 09:13:39 +0000

Not the OP. But trying to break into this field and would be thankful for some assitance/advice.

Email : myhandleonhn at gmail.com

Thanks.

New comment by methusala8 in "Ask HN: How to get some money on the side using my SRE and DevOps experience?"

methusala8 — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 09:07:07 +0000

I am data scientist, trying to move into Security engineering. What is the necessary background needed to get into such roles. I have a background in Statistics and not computer science. Thanks.

New comment by methusala8 in "Ask HN: Which books you have read till now that were worth investing time in?"

methusala8 — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 14:52:53 +0000

+1. Amazing book. Derek Lin has a good translation of this book too.