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New comment by thess24 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

thess24 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 01:27:43 +0000

https://stackwise.bio -- a biohackers playground - find, create and share wellness protocols (improve sleep, brian johnson longevity protocol, ultimate mitochondria boost, etc)

- rating of all supplements

- track experiments you're running on yourself

- knowledge database of all supplements and peptides (side effects, benefits, etc)

- way to find the cheapest blood tests by comparing different companies

https://transferbridgeus.com -- a service that helps international students studying in the US to transfer colleges. Its free and we handle everything

New comment by thess24 in "Crypto unlikely to survive as investment if unregulated, SEC chairman says"

thess24 — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 16:21:04 +0000

Whats wrong with Solana? I don't know much about it at all, just curious

New comment by thess24 in "Ask HN: Simplest stack to build web apps in 2021?"

thess24 — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 00:09:57 +0000

I was starting to look at the same thing. I used to do a bit of Django development (5ish years ago) and things seemed to have changed a good amount with the tooling / frontend.

Does anyone have an opinionated stack they like with Django to get things up and running quickly that could also set me up well for the future for a website and an app(if I want to transition the website to a stable business, etc)?

The things I'd be looking for opinions on:

  - django vs DRF
  - react (or next.js) vs vue vs something else for frontend
  - what other tooling should I use for modern front end development
  - what else is in your stack for CI/CD, rollbacks, db migrations, deployments, etc.
  - do you use any other templates or themes for the frontend to make the UI look good?
  - how you handle security / auth when using a front end framework with django as the backend -- are there any tricks? I've heard JWT can cause headaches 
  - any django packages they recommend using, or other front end packages that are popular

Thanks!

New comment by thess24 in "Have Online Reviews Lost All Value?"

thess24 — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 15:27:21 +0000

Thanks for the link - I'll probably just use this instead!

New comment by thess24 in "Yogababble"

thess24 — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 14:52:28 +0000

I don't do anything low latency so its mostly the common scientific python stack -- numpy, pandas, sklearn, etc. Mostly linux, lots of Spark, some R and C#. We're really flexible on what we can use to solve our problems but the team has pretty much settled on python as both developers and analysts can work together more easily.

New comment by thess24 in "Have Online Reviews Lost All Value?"

thess24 — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 14:47:04 +0000

Something I've been thinking about recently is that there should be a site that only takes the "good" products from amazon and displays them for different categories - maybe only the top 20 or so. If i'm looking for an oven mitt / phone case / whatever the amount of junk is overwhelming. I envision it would essentially be a semi-curated list of amazon items. Anyone know of something like this? It's on my backlist of projects to build if I can't find any substitutes.

New comment by thess24 in "Yogababble"

thess24 — Fri, 27 Sep 2019 20:45:29 +0000

Lazy Prices [1] is a paper I was looking at for a while (I work on a Quant Research team) that does this in a simple way and the authors had good results. It takes the changes in language in some key sections of financial fillings as signals.

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1658471

New comment by thess24 in "Engineering Uncertainty Estimation in Neural Networks"

thess24 — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 04:11:22 +0000

https://twiecki.io/blog/2016/06/01/bayesian-deep-learning/

This is a good example. There’s not much info I’ve been able to find - I’d be interested if anyone else has a solid tutorial.

New comment by thess24 in "Ask HN: Cities underserved by tech jobs?"

thess24 — Sat, 11 Aug 2018 03:53:55 +0000

Agreed (but I'm biased). Companies could get some great tech talent for relatively cheap in Chicago.

New comment by thess24 in "Linear regression by hand"

thess24 — Sat, 20 Jan 2018 19:43:09 +0000

I agree, it seems like no help just to list a formula to memorize. If someone knows enough linear algebra to understand what the formula represents, they can do the derivation. This link [1] is a good one if anyone is interested.

[1] https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2014/derivation-of-the-normal-...

New comment by thess24 in "Introducing Preemptible GPUs"

thess24 — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 03:33:21 +0000

I asked an AWS solutions architect about this specifically and they said they had no plans to implement it yet (that they knew of). I’d like to see someone offer this too

New comment by thess24 in "Goldman Sachs Is Setting Up a Cryptocurrency Trading Desk"

thess24 — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 22:33:10 +0000

I've seen a few well know prop trading firms that are trading cryptocurrencies as well (Jump, DRW, probably others) and there doesn't seem to be too much talk of that. Goldman lends credibility and pretty much everyone has heard of them, so I get this is bigger news, but to me the more interesting news is in the trading firms.

Prop trading firms have no reason not to manipulate the cryptomarkets (it seems legal) and have the capital and knowledge to do so. Or am I missing something and manipulating these markets is illegal?

New comment by thess24 in "CBOE Will Start Bitcoin Futures Trading on December 10"

thess24 — Mon, 04 Dec 2017 16:12:29 +0000

No. Because they are cash settled, only cash will change hands.

New comment by thess24 in "eBay launches visual search tools that let you shop using photos"

thess24 — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 20:15:49 +0000

Yes, the types of photos will have a huge impact. eBay most definitely has an advantage in that regard.

New comment by thess24 in "eBay launches visual search tools that let you shop using photos"

thess24 — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 20:10:43 +0000

I've been building an automated service very similar to this for womens fashion (mens fashion soon) in my free time over the past 5 months using deep learning. The goal is to index existing items, and then expand to items that are no longer available. So you could take a picture of your shoes/shirt/hat/etc and it would ideally find the same one. If it doesn't find the same exact item, it would find similar items at different price points that you could buy. Getting similar items isn't that hard -- getting the exact item is much trickier though. With the pace of improvement in these types of models, there will probably be a lot of these types of apps popping up over the next few years.

New comment by thess24 in "eBay launches visual search tools that let you shop using photos"

thess24 — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 20:02:37 +0000

Pinterest does have something similar and has a few blog posts about how they did it

New comment by thess24 in "Effective Tensorflow"

thess24 — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 16:05:22 +0000

For those who use Tensorflow regularly:

What 'type' of tensorflow do you recommend for a project starting today -- tf.slim, tf.contrib.keras, 'raw' tensorflow, keras with tensorflow?

I am building a production model so was probably going to use tensorflow because I like the tooling (tensorboard), and ability to write once for production and research.

New comment by thess24 in "AI Hedge Fund Goes Live on Ethereum"

thess24 — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 18:58:58 +0000

Wow that is truly unbelievable. Thanks for the clarification and the link (reading now).

New comment by thess24 in "AI Hedge Fund Goes Live on Ethereum"

thess24 — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 18:23:27 +0000

Maybe you could clear up something I've been wondering as someone new to cryptocurrencies. In the ICO, Bancor exchanges their own, newly created coins for Ethereum and the 'investors' are hoping that the new Bancor coins value will go up? So the Bancor team raised ~150 million dollars (in Ethereum) with no strings attached -- ie, no investors, debt, etc? Do I have this right?

New comment by thess24 in "Quant Job Interview Questions (2009) [pdf]"

thess24 — Sat, 12 Nov 2016 19:05:10 +0000

It's definitely possible with a masters in SE. There are many types of quant (see the markjoshi.com link above) - it will be easiest for you to become a quant developer with your background in software engineering. This will be much more focused on the software development side of things rather than the math/modelling side of things, but depending on the firm will give you large exposure to how the modelling side works. They are very competitive positions, but if you are a strong programmer that can prove you have knowledge of financial markets, have relevant side projects, and can understand and communicate the math behind what you build, you will have a leg up on the competition.