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by Breza 7y ago
I can't suggest Introduction to Statistical Learning enough, it's a fantastic book! I loaned my copy to another data scientist because I didn't want to hog such a valuable resource.
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by Breza 7y ago
Never Split the Difference was really useful. I don't apply the exact methodology, but the general principles are useful in many different situations.
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by Breza 7y ago
What are the best O'Reilly books you read? I've read some excellent books from them and some meh.
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by Breza 7y ago
Evicted offers a great view into a topic that may be new to many HN readers
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by Breza 7y ago
I finished the Bible last year. It took a lot longer than other equally long books have taken me to read. The Bible is really a collection of a bunch of different books. The constant narrative changes can be hard to follow. To be clear, I&#
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by Breza 7y ago
You have to remember that The Bible isn't one book. It's a collection of a bunch of different books in one convenient binding. I finally finished reading the whole thing last year and was surprised by how many different perspectiv
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by Breza 7y ago
The "how many times" isn't always true. I work with email a lot at my job and email image caching is getting more aggressive.
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by Breza 7y ago
I agree with you. Practitioners not knowing the history of their fields is a problem. In grad school, we learned the canon of managerial theory over the past century. Knowing the tradeoffs between different schools of thought makes me a bet
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by Breza 7y ago
I'm not sure why they're being posted now, but I really like Five Books. You get more depth than most book aggregation websites.
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by Breza 7y ago
I'm not affiliated with that website, but it's worth noting that the footer of every page has this disclosure notice: "Five Books participates in the Amazon Associate program and earns money from qualifying purchases."
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by Breza 7y ago
Confirmed, both from reading (I suggest The Lion in the Living Room) and from experience. My cats know my schedule better than I do.
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by Breza 7y ago
Your commitment and the end result are both impressive
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by Breza 7y ago
I have a 100-minute subway commute and a Windows 10 laptop. The ability to download is nice. If I wanted to, I could watch two movies a day in 4k.
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by Breza 7y ago
This is fun!
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by Breza 7y ago
Not to mention Reddit -> Reddit I'm amazed at how successful some crosspost bots are.
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by Breza 7y ago
I feel the same way! My workstation can easily handle the fast.ai projects but they insist that people use cloud servers.
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by Breza 7y ago
Mass also adds to the force of the impact
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by Breza 7y ago
Most investors are smart enough to recognize BS and pass. But they don't issue press releases announcing "We just decided not to invest in this much-hyped startup." It only takes one deep pocketed investor to buoy a deeply fl
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by Breza 7y ago
I'm from Michigan and I prefer "Great Lakes region" when talking about the area described in this post.
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by Breza 7y ago
There's a lot that gets in the way of reading most Bibles. This old Kickstarter laid out the problems nicely (not an endorsement, I don't own this version). https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adamlewisgreene
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by Breza 7y ago
Ah, the old endemic versus non-endemic debate. Increasingly, you're right, but some brands really like the prestige of having their ads appear with content related to their topic.
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by Breza 7y ago
This is an important distinction that the article doesn't cover. The article focuses on a specific subset of advertising. Brand awareness ads are even harder to measure.
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by Breza 7y ago
What about Coca-Cola? They spend billions on advertising even though everybody already knows who they are. They want to seem current. No brand wants to be thought of as yesterday's news. Facebook advertises to remind people that they e
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by Breza 7y ago
In EMT training, they had to repeatedly tell us all to get watches with a second hand. It felt like the stone ages.
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by Breza 7y ago
That's fascinating, thanks for sharing!
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by Breza 7y ago
That totally depends on the subreddit. r/politics? You're absolutely right. But the more focused subs offer a wealth of information about obscure topics. For example, check out this recent thread on r/machinelearning where pe
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by Breza 7y ago
Exactly. If you have Bluetooth and wifi turned on, you're sharing your location. So the OS makers decided to make that obvious by requiring you to have location turned on.
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by Breza 7y ago
These days, it's thankfully rare that people are forced off a flight. The worst problems I've had have come from having a flight cancelled with all the next flights fully booked. As long as the airline can point to weather, they d
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by Breza 7y ago
I agree with you. WeWork doesn't have strong network effects and the business model is easy to copy. There are real estate companies that each owns tens of millions of square feet of office space. If WeWork really were worth $40 billio
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by Breza 7y ago
I'd read it!

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