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Re:Video gaming may be associated with better cognitive perf... by wswope on Thursday October 27, 2022 @12:07AM (#33352956)
Learned Java as a first language to write bots back in 2009. Present day, I’m 1.5 yrs into writing a market analysis/flipping site for OSRS, and it’s been a great way to play with time-series stuff, sysadmin, and front-end.

Gotta credit a good chunk of career success to RuneScape as well.

Re:Video gaming may be associated with better cognitive perf... by shoemakersteve on Thursday October 27, 2022 @02:40PM (#33362049)
Something like ge-tracker? I always thought it sounded fun to work on something like that, but also a ton of work for a game I'd probably be bored with way before I'd be able to finish anything tangible. I'm guessing there's decent potential for profit though, so that might be a good motivator.
Re:Video gaming may be associated with better cognitive perf... by wswope on Thursday October 27, 2022 @03:14PM (#33362570)
Yep, same basic premise as GE-tracker with higher detail visualizations and fancier stats/feature engineering on top. Flipping to max cash became a pandemic hobby of mine, so I started off with a handful of homerolled spreadsheets/Jupyter notebooks to cover blind spots that I felt GE-tracker was missing, and eventually decided I could make a better version of the same recipe on my own.