• Dec 29, 2019

  • M Night Shyamalan’s Servant is pretty good.
  • Paid Jan rent, full.
  • Called Grayson for his 5th.
  • CFB national championship is gonna be LSU Clemson.
  • MapReduce used to be pretty popular for big data; take a large problem and split it into tasks for a distributed system (map) and then recombine them logically after whatever operations have been performed (reduce).
  • Practice problems:
  • https://leetcode.com/problems/longest-common-prefix/. Easy.
  • Started the array-sum problems. 2sum, 3sum, 4sum, and variations. Will finish later.
  • Drove to big bear for NYE/brobeans.
  • Petty 1st place sbsc lol (62.4%). I finished the season at 51.2%, better than last year at 45.9.
  • Niners beat the seahawks, 1st place NFC.
  • A few requests were deadlocked. It can self-detect, and sentry notifies. Could restart, or just wait for nginx to kill the thread workers.
• Dec 28, 2019

  • Practice leetcode problems.
  • https://leetcode.com/problems/string-to-integer-atoi. Nothing specially really, just checking lot of corner cases.
  • https://leetcode.com/problems/palindrome-number. Very easy.
  • https://leetcode.com/problems/regular-expression-matching/. They need to be clearer than the wildcard will only be in the second position. I was about to program the true way to do it.
  • https://leetcode.com/problems/container-with-most-water. Nailed this one.
  • https://leetcode.com/problems/roman-to-integer/. Easy. Remember, while loops allow you to iterate in desynced fashion, which is common (rather than just `for ind, item in enumerate(array):`. A while loop allows you to jump around in the array, skip 2 items, control your own index for each step, etc. This occurs pretty frequently in logic problems.
  • https://leetcode.com/problems/integer-to-roman. More roman numerals!
  • Went back over the leadership principles, making examples and memorizing each.
  • Watched the second season of You. Loved how much they made fun of LA actors.
  • Remember python’s compound operators. You use += but you can did it with basically everything else, like *= or %= (modulo then define). They’re all the same as x = x * 5, with whatever operator and number you need.
• Dec 27, 2019

  • Transcrypt is a python/js compiler. https://www.transcrypt.org/. You can put python in your html, javascript in your backend, etc. Weird.
  • The vip terminal at lax costs about 5k/yr for membership and >3k/flight. https://theprivatesuite.com/.
  • Bought a straightener. The boar’s hair brush works a bit better for shorter beards. Needs to be ~2″ for this to shine.
  • Nasdaq index is mostly tech focused (unlike dj/spy).
  • Hit up spencer, bonus alex is visiting la in a couple days.
  • Skipped amazon fresh and buying/brining/smoking meat, gonna be in big bear for the next half week.
  • Made this:
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  • Added phil and raj to the paid league.
  • select * from users where email like ‘%WORD%’;
  • insert into league_user_association values (<league_id>, <user_id>);
  • Coke has the same acidity as lemon juice.
  • Run pull sauna meditate.
  • 1000p motorcycle puzzle. 4hrs maybe?
  • The coriolis effect causes large-scale fluids (eg oceans/hurricanes, not toilets/baths) to rotate clockwise in the southern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere (closer to equator = moving faster).
  • Lynch definitely running for seahawks on sunday. Awesome. AB is apparently working on signing with the saints as well. Terrible. Man needs mental help.
• Dec 26, 2019

  • Placed some small limit orders for option calls. They didn’t execute.
  • Eric got me the athleanx inferno size program, started looking through the website.
  • Supercontest.
  • Odds:
  • 0: 1/32
  • 1: 5/32
  • 2: 10/32
  • 3: 10/32
  • 4: 5/32
  • 5: 1/32
  • Obviously a coin flip is a binomial distribution, just like a dice roll. As n gets large, this approximates Gaussian (normal).
  • Standard deviation of coin flip = 1/(2*sqrt(n))
  • Created ticket: https://gitlab.com/bmahlstedt-group/supercontest/issues/140.
  • Push sauna meditate.
  • Scheduled amazon onsite for mon jan 13.
  • Flew SFO LAX.
  • Ashish called about the NCL telem site.
• Dec 25, 2019

  • Committed lines, submitted picks.
  • Final week 17, we’ll know the season winner on Sunday.
  • This week was a pain in the ass. The iframe table format was completely different for the lines. Different order, different column, etc. The autofetcher didn’t know how to understand any of it. I entered the lines manually.
  • [[u’TITANS’, u’TEXANS*’, u’SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2019 1:25 PM’, u’3.5′], [u’BROWNS’, u’BENGALS*’, u’SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2019 10:00 AM’, u’2.5′], [u’VIKINGS*’, u’BEARS’, u’SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2019 10:00 AM’, u’1′], [u’COLTS’, u’JAGUARS*’, u’SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2019 1:25 PM’, u’3.5′], [u’FALCONS’, u’BUCCANEERS*’, u’SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2019 10:00 AM’, u’0′], [u’COWBOYS*’, u’REDSKINS’, u’SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2019 1:25 PM’, u’11’], [u’SAINTS’, u’PANTHERS*’, u’SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2019 10:00 AM’, u’13’], [u’EAGLES’, u’GIANTS*’, u’SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2019 1:25 PM’, u’4.5′], [u’STEELERS’, u’RAVENS*’, u’SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2019 1:25 PM’, u’2′], [u’BILLS*’, u’JETS’, u’SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2019 10:00 AM’, u’1.5′], [u’PATRIOTS*’, u’DOLPHINS’, u’SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2019 10:00 AM’, u’15.5′], [u’PACKERS’, u’LIONS*’, u’SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2019 10:00 AM’, u’12.5′], [u’CHIEFS*’, u’CHARGERS’, u’SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2019 10:00 AM’, u’8.5′], [u’RAMS*’, u’CARDINALS’, u’SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2019 1:25 PM’, u’3′], [u’49ERS’, u’SEAHAWKS*’, u’SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2019 5:20 PM’, u’3.5′], [u’BRONCOS*’, u’RAIDERS’, u’SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2019 1:25 PM’, u’3′]]
  • dbsession.commits._commit_lines(week_id=34, lines=lines)
  • core.scores.commit_scores()
  • util.email.email_picks_open(season=2019, week=17)
• Dec 24, 2019

  • Happy Hollow Park/Zoo in San Jose.
  • LAMP = linux apache mysql php. I always forget this one. It’s old.
  • Rivian, big ev company.
  • Power rankings (nfl and espn) have the niners 3rd after the saints and ravens.
  • FF ESPN: 5-7. 11/12 PF. 11/12 final rank.
  • FF Yahoo: 5-8. 7/10 PF. 10/10 final rank.
  • Worked with amazon to schedule the date of the onsite. Suggested the second week of Jan.
  • Went over their documentation of the onsite process: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/landing_pages/in-person-interview.
  • Confirmed the citadel coding challenge for Jan 7.
  • Ordered a whiteboard ($18) to practice. My old one was stained/dry.
  • STAR = situation task action result.
• Dec 23, 2019

  • Received results for the amazon coding test, passed, got invited for a day of onsites.
  • Markets.
  • Boeing fired their CEO.
  • S&P up 3.5% in the past month. Record highs. Such a strange time, with every indicator shouting bear years ago.
  • Pivotal went public last year, 2018-04-20. Earnings tomorrow.
  • TSLA hit $420, and rising. People are so weird.
  • More practice problems. Mostly leetcode.
  • Getting better and faster with every one.
  • Writing out a couple BASIC examples of the iteration/recursion, like the first two loops/stacks, is extremely helpful for developing the algorithm. Makes it much easier to extrapolate if the whole problem is too complex to wrap your head around in code or thought.
  • Reversing an array is obviously O(n). Same for linked list.
  • When you see a problem that expects a logn solution, expect something like a binary search where you’re halving the problem space each time.
  • Started looking on redfin. 1-2br, 1bath, garage, $1m. There are some options in places like south city, rwc, epa, santa clara.
  • Marshawn Lynch might play for the seahawks next week against us. So conflicted.
  • Lunch at little lucca’s. They were out of dutch crunch.
  • Updated the banner so I wouldn’t have to on christmas. Redeployed.
  • German bar with all the kids from the block.