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andrewmatte | 3 years ago | on: Big meat can’t quit antibiotics

I am not a doctor - I just write code... I remember being up in arms about weird stuff in my food when I first heard about it but now I think about the wellbeing of the animals while they're alive and shit, man, if I were sick I'd want antibiotics too. When is it excessive? Is it because they're all so close together in the factory "farm"? What do the veterinarians say about this?

andrewmatte | 4 years ago | on: Transformers, originally designed to handle language, are taking on vision

I have not given transformers enough attention... but my impression is that this is still storing entities in the weights of the neural network instead of in a database where the can be operated on with CRUD. What are the knowledge discovery researchers doing with respect to transformers? And the SAT solver researchers?

Here is an article on KDNuggets that explains transformers but doesn't answer my questions: https://www.kdnuggets.com/2021/06/essential-guide-transforme...

andrewmatte | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: Hvr, a Social Browser

Eventually ads but, as the head of tech of this venture, we have no plans to sell browsing history. Also, we've taken care to never expose your email address. Deleting a post genuinely deletes the data from our database, unless the post has been reported as violating standards. What other privacy concerns would you like to see addressed?

andrewmatte | 5 years ago | on: Write Libraries, Not Frameworks

I like microframeworks because they do one thing well and they don't in the way - like a library. When I use batteries-included frameworks, I end up not using a lot of what they offer.

andrewmatte | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: I've saved up $80k USD. What should I do with it?

I used to be a stock broker. But right now I am not your stock broker. This is not advice.

Great fundamental wisdom is that you can't (consistently) time the market but you should try to Buy Low, Sell High. That said, we experience a massive COVID crash. It's a great time to buy, but we don't know how long it will last or whether it will be long recession afterwards.

Index investing through ETFs is a great way to get diversity in a single financial instrument such as the S&P (large companies), NASDAQ (tech), or the Russell (small companies.) The NASDAQ has largely recovered but the Russell still has a long way to go back to February prices.

I have an old friend whose parents sold their home recently and gave him a sum. He's putting in 10% per month for the next 10 months, all in the S&P.

andrewmatte | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: Full Text Search on Podcasts

Cool idea for an add-on!

I've noticed that I feel better about giving feedback to uncompensated developers using "this is great and" instead of "this is great but."

It could make or break someone's day.

andrewmatte | 6 years ago | on: How to learn how to write great tests in Python?

My best advice for you is to write modular functions that can be tested separately rather than integrated stuff that can't be disentangled.

A unit test should test the functionality of a single chunk of code. What kind of stuff are you writing?

I write webservers most of the time. So what I do is, at the top level of the request, immediately pull data off of the request so that I can access to the data in native python types that are easy to mock for testing. Each layer of my webserver does only one thing which could be gluing the auth+services together, but is still easy to mock.

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