Malarkey73

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by Malarkey73 10y ago
Indeed - I think it's unclear how you should begin to teach R now. There is a lot of legacy stuff that you may need to recognise if you want to understand the help documentation. But if you wanted to seriously work in R it maybe better
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by Malarkey73 10y ago
Idiomatic R has changed enormously with the growth of Magrittr the ℅>℅ operator, dplyr and now broom. Code by expert users is unrecognisable from that of a few years ago.
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by Malarkey73 10y ago
This is an odd article because the main "demagogue" featured is John Bright who was more regarded as an economic and social reformer and great parliamentary orator. He may have aroused strong passions but was far from a populist h
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Bitcoin 'not real money' says Miami Judge(theguardian.com)
2 points by Malarkey73 10y ago|0 comments
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by Malarkey73 10y ago
I'm sorry - I don't mean to imply that Germany is all powerful. The power dynamics of different EU institutions are complex and sometime unwieldy. And often a single country can block something. However I respectfully disagree wit
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by Malarkey73 10y ago
Influence in the Euro institutions is largely determined by the size of the economies and their contributions to the budget. Germany is first among equals.
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by Malarkey73 10y ago
Hell will freeze over before the German government lets Deutsche Bank go bust. They let Greece go bust rather than the Landesbank.
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by Malarkey73 10y ago
Manufacturers will still abide by EU regulations. Otherwise their products won't be able to sell abroad. The UK government just won't have any input - that's a REAL loss of sovereignty.
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Globalisation is Fraying. Look Under the Elephant Trunk(medium.com)
2 points by Malarkey73 10y ago|0 comments
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by Malarkey73 10y ago
I'm not totally sure whether this analysis captures the true extent which R vs SAS vs SPSS is used. If I use R for a plot, or a simple bit of regression, or anova, or even cross-validation. I don't reference it in a paper. I only
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by Malarkey73 10y ago
Yes and no - the dplyr example code heavily used pipes but that's really a feature of Magrittr package. You can used dplyr without pipes. Plus dplyr essentially allows you to treat tables in a database as if they are data.frames.
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by Malarkey73 10y ago
I also find these buzzwords annoying - but they're different. 'Privilege' is the only term from that list in the article... 'Trigger' I find annoying in almost every context; with the exception of facilities for the
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by Malarkey73 10y ago
Bayesian Star Wars : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8IuGxP4Pa4
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by Malarkey73 10y ago
I have this very concern about using SVM in medical research. I also worry greatly about diagnostic predictive models that maximise overall prediction success but don't balance the relative consequences of false positives and false neg
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by Malarkey73 10y ago
One of the most mind boggling sentences in that article was: "On Sunday, Northpointe gave ProPublica the basics of its future-crime formula — which includes factors such as education levels, and whether a defendant has a job. It did no
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by Malarkey73 10y ago
A lot of this hit home to me as similar to my experience in bioinformatics - where all the formats are standardised and everything should be reproducible - but almost every project ends up completely different. Software + Research = Chaos
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The Real Lesson for Data Science That Is Demonstrated by Palantir's Struggles(simplystatistics.org)
4 points by Malarkey73 10y ago|1 comments
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by Malarkey73 10y ago
And forget Plato and ~half of Greek Philosophy.
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by Malarkey73 10y ago
Firstly the price of beans, CPUs and clothes may have fallen - but the price of education, healthcare, energy and especially housing have not fallen. They take up more and more of disposable income - and it's hard to argue that they ar
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How politicians poisoned statistics(on.ft.com)
7 points by Malarkey73 10y ago|0 comments
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MMA's Popularity Is No Defence for Legal Killing(theguardian.com)
2 points by Malarkey73 10y ago|0 comments
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by Malarkey73 11y ago
That's wrong. The top 1% pay 30% of income tax. But this is only about a third of UK tax revenues. There is then NI, council taxes, property taxes, business taxes, VAT and duties. The poorly paid actually spend a much higher % of there
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by Malarkey73 11y ago
Having an objective measure of each players skills and their potential. FIFA EA - Dribbling Ability: 23 (subjective) Moneyball - On Base Percentage 23% (objective)
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by Malarkey73 11y ago
There is a big difference between PCR and CRISPR though. Whilst PCR is effectively a reading technology, CRISPR is a writing technology. For many medical technologies then PCR is a standalone diagnostic tool (it is HUGE in mol. biol., patho
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The Contempt That Poisoned Flints Water(newyorker.com)
2 points by Malarkey73 11y ago|0 comments
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by Malarkey73 11y ago
This is an odd settlement though as it sort of ignores the law. Corporation tax is based on profits - which Google offshore to avoid UK tax (and many other places). Here they have said to them we see what you're doing - make nice. So t
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Data Sharing and Research Parasites(nejm.org)
2 points by Malarkey73 11y ago|0 comments
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Name new element in Terry Pratchett's honour: Octarine – the colour of magic(boingboing.net)
3 points by Malarkey73 11y ago|0 comments
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by Malarkey73 11y ago
Yes but with a complete DNA database you can match an external sample exactly to the database with (near) complete accuracy. The DNA database doesn't tell you anything itself. With a database of all communications you have to mine it
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by Malarkey73 11y ago
If you can make exploitative profits from old drugs why risk your money making new ones?

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