Howdy. I’m Mark Essel, an engineer that’s added cofounder, web developer and author to my bag of tricks. My quest is to rediscover my life’s passions, and leverage that drive into profitable business ventures.
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Submissions
Show HN: Yet Another News Reader
boomerang-news.com
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Show HN: Multiplayer Space Game
voidhorizon.net
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A Hacker's Guide to Machine Learning: MLUtils
amazon.com
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A Hacker's Guide to Machine Learning
812142374009.gumroad.com
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Show HN: Welcome Makes Travel Easier
welco.me
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Ask HN: Why is HN so slow?
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The shortest guide to the ruby debugger
victusspiritus.com
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A compelling argument for regulations on sub $1billion dollar IPOs
victusspiritus.com
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Node.js, MongoDB and Mongoose 1.1 Node Tuts
nodetuts.com
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Cleanup crufty git commits from unknown at localmachine
victusspiritus.com
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Talent
youtu.be
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The Old Kingdom
victusspiritus.com
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Joanne Wilson: Interview IV - RealAcad Mondays
alearningaday.com
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An elegant ruby script for building complex c++ projects, using cmake
victusspiritus.com
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Communication is Free, Spam Filters Cost Money
victusspiritus.com
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Simons Mall Free WiFi Killed my Gmail Account
victusspiritus.com
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Harsh economic conditions instruct our sense of value
If you can use a typed language, you want guardrails. Unit tests aren't enough you want integration tests with headless browsers if applicable. It can automatically catch many of its own mistakes earlier.
Be opinionated on your rules files for how you want it to organize the data and code (I built a scaffold template I use all over https://github.com/victusfate/scaffold, fork it make it your own)
If it edits tests you need to push back on why. I'm seeing it too often go to switch case vs simple inheritance. It's too slow sometimes for simple one line change.
Long time ycombinator news member sharing my latest book. It's designed for devs who can hit the ground running with python, and it's what I wished I had back in 2017 when I started building ML applications professionally for clients and startups.
The book source code is OS and available here https://github.com/victusfate/HackersGuideToMachineLearningS...
ps I used to share blog posts here 14 years back from victusspiritus
Greetings!
Long time ycombinator news member sharing my latest book. It's designed for devs who can hit the ground running with python, and it's what I wished I had back in 2017 when I started building ML applications professionally for clients and startups.
Yeah it's updated regularly with third party data + fresh crawlers. We do miss closures/relocations sometimes. We also sometimes mix up the content for place descriptions on multipage pages (saw that recently with a friends test recommendation for Peking duck, at a place that didn't carry it).
Bonus points if you tie this to a cryptocurrency that is "staked" by data owners (you and I). Sounds like a reasonable core idea to build on, good luck!
We do a ton of data plumbing at my current startup https://welco.me/ . Ps we launched our 2.0 app today
Welcome's a travel app (iOS currently) which helps navigate new destinations on the fly. You can leave tips, ask your friends for tips, skip boring stuff, or lock in your favorites to have Welcome sweat the planning while you wander and enjoy. If you go off plan, no biggie. The app adjusts to wherever you are and picks out the best venues.
Just thinking about how many simultaneous breakthroughs occur, and expertise in so many areas is mind boggling. In contrast there are slower periods/cultures too, ie hunter gatherer societies.
You could spend one life to become an expert doctor only to have all that knowledge made obsolete by time.
I believe I remember potty training but my parents said I learned at 13 months. I'm likely misremembering using a tiny plastic toilet in the bathroom from that age to 2-3.
I can almost certainly remember the daunting climb onto a full sized toilet between age 3-4.
Focused on Information Theory in grad school at Stony Brook in 1996/97, and enjoyed Nam Phamdo's courses. Sadly after reading 8-9 pages I feel like much of this review is over my head now. The words make sense but the concepts are pretty dense.
I do remember the algorithms (Huffman coding), but the high level concepts are harder to remember - information being directly correlated to randomness (entropy). Information is the unknown (random?) message, that sounds more like noise. Channel capacity makes sense: based on noise there's an upper limit on how fast you can communicate bits and groups of bits.
When I review GitHub usage like this, I can't help but feel the statistics don't represent which language I can best express my ideas with, and which are my most important projects (ie many work repos have very few stars)
This is keeper, I'm at 350+ ideal weight around 230-240lbs (6'7") and looking for something to shake up my consumption that makes sense. I regularly exercise (20hrs/week low-medium impact) but eat fast foods
Fractional CTO/Engineering Consultant https://tekhorizons.com
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Howdy. I’m Mark Essel, an engineer that’s added cofounder, web developer and author to my bag of tricks. My quest is to rediscover my life’s passions, and leverage that drive into profitable business ventures.
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/victusfate; my proof: https://keybase.io/victusfate/sigs/SANc9xcXUJfNQw28Oh9OOChKWp59W_HIXb9KTQ3JvVw ]
Verifying my Blockstack ID is secured with the address 16PpGPz7jGJ8DCJZFko3ekMXsphFfXR6xd https://explorer.blockstack.org/address/16PpGPz7jGJ8DCJZFko3ekMXsphFfXR6xd