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New comment by thisguy47 in "Claude for Excel"

thisguy47 — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 22:52:27 +0000

Sheets also has an `AI` formula now that you can use to invoke Gemini models directly.

New comment by thisguy47 in "Loading Pydantic models from JSON without running out of memory"

thisguy47 — Thu, 22 May 2025 18:57:17 +0000

I'd like to see a comparison of ijson vs just `json.load(f)`. `ujson` would also be interesting to see.

New comment by thisguy47 in "Sky-scanning complete for Gaia"

thisguy47 — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 23:34:30 +0000

Which university if you don't mind me asking? I'm interested in doing something similar as a hobby.

New comment by thisguy47 in "Ask HN: Share your "LLM screwed us over" stories?"

thisguy47 — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 18:05:31 +0000

The linked post is more a story of someone not understanding what they're deploying. If they had found a random blog post about spot instances, they likely would have made the same mistake.

In this case, the LLM suggested a potentially reasonable approach and the author screwed themselves by not looking into what they were trading off for lower costs.

New comment by thisguy47 in "I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months"

thisguy47 — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 19:55:28 +0000

It is because they have a different vesting schedule from most companies. Instead of 25% of your stock annually with a 1 year cliff, they pay out 5%, 15%, 40%, 40%. So once your signing bonus is up, your shares ramp up.

New comment by thisguy47 in "What Is Dbt and Why Are Companies Using It?"

thisguy47 — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 00:14:03 +0000

Unfortunate typo: It’s about to be a decade since the Harvard article touting data science as the sexist job in the 21st century.

New comment by thisguy47 in "Aliens Would Visit for Knowledge, Not Resources"

thisguy47 — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 06:54:55 +0000

Given this, it's also possible that it would take such minimal effort for such an advanced civilization to destroy upstarts, that they would automate it and be done with it.

New comment by thisguy47 in "Aliens Would Visit for Knowledge, Not Resources"

thisguy47 — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 20:44:03 +0000

My personal favorite take on this is the Dark Forest concept (probably because I just finished reading the book).

It makes sense to me that unless there were some way of ensuring mutually assured destruction, any advanced alien race would simply eliminate any sentient species they became aware of that could possibly become a threat in the future (whether that's hundreds, thousands, or millions of years).

New comment by thisguy47 in "Billions of Random Numbers in a Blink of an Eye"

thisguy47 — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 17:11:04 +0000

Ah yes, thanks everyone for pointing out my mistake, I am not using the `size` parameter, so this is really only generating a single random number. My mistake!

New comment by thisguy47 in "Billions of Random Numbers in a Blink of an Eye"

thisguy47 — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 02:17:25 +0000

Am I missing something? With numpy on my 2017 Macbook Pro, I can generate 1B random, normally distributed numbers on a CPU in ~1.3 microseconds.

In [3]: %timeit np.random.normal(1000000000)

1.3 µs ± 26.2 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1000000 loops each)

Edit: and 2.5e17 in ~7.95 microseconds

In [5]: %timeit np.random.normal((500000000, 500000000))

7.95 µs ± 90.7 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 100000 loops each)

New comment by thisguy47 in "Rate My iPhone App"

thisguy47 — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:26:44 +0000

It's called Middow and it basically takes two locations and finds the midpoint between them. You can then search for pretty much anything around the midpoint and meet people in the middle or whatnot.

I have already pushed out the first update which will save addresses you search for so you don't have to type the same ones over and over. That should be approved by the App Store either tomorrow or sometime soon after that.

Also, if you wanna be a sport and give me some free publicity, digg this story!

http://digg.com/apple/Middow_Meet_in_the _Middle

Any tips, suggestions, praise?

Rate My iPhone App

thisguy47 — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:57:00 +0000

It's called Middow and it basically takes two locations and finds the midpoint between them. You can then search for pretty much anything around the midpoint and meet people in the middle or whatnot.

Also, if you wanna be a sport and give me some free publicity, digg this story!

http://digg.com/apple/Middow_Meet_in_the _Middle

Any tips, suggestions, praise?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=746964

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