Location: Denver, Colorado (greater metro)
Remote: In-person with hybrid flexibility strongly preferred. Remote for the right team.
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python (7 years of Pandas, NumPy, NLTK, Pillow, etc), Django + PostgreSQL + HTMX, good 'ol fashioned ML and statistical modeling, VBA (unfortunately)
Résumé/CV: Happy to share upon request
Email: ulr6n3g3 at anonaddy.me
Hi HN, I help firms increase their bottom line through my finance / math background and MacGyver data analytics approach to problem solving. My experience includes finance & trading, healthcare, the Rubik's Cube, and some time in grad school where I mostly built custom NLP models and generated fractals instead of grading papers.
I've discovered and implemented profitable trading strategies, saved weeks of C-suite time by automating boutique financial reporting, and built a Python app that saved the company from buying some $500k software. Each of my tech skills are self taught because they've helped me solve specific problems I've found at the firms I've been part of (or because they were a fun way to spend nights and weekends).
I'm interested in joining a team working on intellectually stimulating projects. (Consulting / contracting for the right opportunity.) Reach out if you think we could work well together and I'd love to meet up for coffee. More about me on my website (in profile).
I’ve always loved this example. I implemented the Monte Carlo pi estimation on a LEGO Mindstorms NXT back in high school. Totally sparked my interest in programming, simulations, etc. Also the NXT’s drag-and-drop, flowchart programming interface was actually a great intro to programming logic. Made it really easy to learn real programming in later on.
> If you know your metric longitude, you know the local time shift, and vice versa.
I've also thought that setting time using longitude could make sense. Especially since I and many people tell time, schedule meetings, etc using a device with a GPS. This article [0] makes an interesting point about the effect that time shift based on longitude would have on computers in the same data center.
> At the equator, the position directly underneath the mean Sun travels west at about 463 metres per second. That means a standard rack unit is about one millisecond wide. ...
So, strictly speaking, continuous time zones mean that clocks on machines in different parts of the same data centre — neighbouring racks, even — will need to be set to different times, depending on the exact positions of those racks.
It concludes that you would have to choose a single reference point to represent the time of a machine and that:
> We might even consider applying this consistency across all machines in any given data centre. This would simplify tasks such as e.g. collating accurately timestamped log entries from multiple machines. We would ignore the real longitudes of the various machines and set all of their clocks to the same local time. The interior of the facility would become an area of uniform time; a "time zone", as it were.
I will second p5/processing as a fun tool. It's really a pretty easy and way to get into generative art. P5.js has an online editor which makes it easy.
The new nature of code book was updated to use p5 instead of processing and a fun way to start. As is the "coding train videos" which are interesting in the seem for kids but cover more advanced topics..
I've discovered and implemented profitable trading strategies, saved weeks of C-suite time by automating boutique financial reporting, and built a Python app that saved the company from buying some $500k software. Each of my tech skills are self taught because they've helped me solve specific problems I've found at the firms I've been part of (or because they were a fun way to spend nights and weekends).
I'm interested in joining a team working on intellectually stimulating projects. (Consulting / contracting for the right opportunity.) Reach out if you think we could work well together and I'd love to meet up for coffee. More about me on my website (in profile).