Malarkey73

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by Malarkey73 12y ago
The data I come across is a mix of comma, tab, and space delimited though predominantly what the commenter above would call "line oriented". So I personally just don't see the benefit from a less generalised version of coreut
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by Malarkey73 12y ago
I'm not totally sure why csvgrep csvsort csvcut csvjoin are needed as replacements for grep sort, cut or join? The syntax doesn't seem noticeably clearer? And - without testing - I presume csvkit in Python is a bit slower than the
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by Malarkey73 12y ago
I'm not really sure what this "work-hours" data is capturing. My parents were teachers and I remember them marking after school and some weekends. My wife is now a teacher and she has after school meetings at least once a we
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by Malarkey73 12y ago
I'm familiar with this idea - but it's nice to see explained with cute little puppies and kittens.
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by Malarkey73 12y ago
True but have you seen most academic websites? They really aren't that into web dev. They are mainly concerned with static publication. But yes Python is growing in this area and generally as command line scripting glue. I'm not s
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by Malarkey73 12y ago
I think the author really needs to define scientific computing. Some people would think of that as simulations, clusters, astronomy, epidemiology and fluid dynamics. That maybe typified by a scripting language wrapper(inc Python) to C, C++
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by Malarkey73 12y ago
We're all lovely people and we served nice coffee and delicious biscuits.
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by Malarkey73 12y ago
I'm not a regular interviewer but I've been on a panel for a few recently. For one job in particular the standout candidate on paper gave the worst interview I have ever seen. He was arrogant, confrontational, couldn't answer
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by Malarkey73 12y ago
Rowling was an unemployed divorced single mother who had to rely on welfare to support her whilst she wrote Harry Potter. She is quite socially conscious and has always supported the welfare state that gave her a leg up.
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by Malarkey73 12y ago
This is another of those websites that asks you to sign up without explaining what it does ... except for the "learn more" button which takes you to a page which explains very very little. nice font.
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by Malarkey73 12y ago
This article (and some people here) seem to be mixing up the conclusion that particular so-called "super foods" are viewed with skepticism by oncologists. And a poor high fat high sugar diet is very clearly associated with cancer,
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by Malarkey73 12y ago
I'd really like to watch Oz. Coming from the UK that was the first show I watched where I thought "There's some good American TV, What is this HBO thing?"
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by Malarkey73 13y ago
I agree with most of what they say here - except using data.table. I much prefer using data.table structures with dplyr a far simpler more familiar syntax. Indeed data.table - the object implementation - is brilliant and should just replace
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by Malarkey73 13y ago
Oh dear Im afraid I was a bit like this the first couple of days in my last job. I soon realised what I was doing though and started to bite my tongue. Then after a couple of weeks I knew that all the issues with the system were not the fau
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by Malarkey73 13y ago
Yes to a data analyst that is big data. If you are doing some MCMC and that is really what it takes on that size of data then you have a big data problem. The more sophisticated a statistic, the more high dimensional the data, the more samp
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by Malarkey73 13y ago
I think Hadley Wickham has a decent description of big data in terms of the analytical process... to expand slightly on his description: On normal data you can iteratively explore and visualise it hitting return and seeing plots or model re
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by Malarkey73 13y ago
Jeez. That is like sooooo many modern websites. What is this site? What is thingumajig.io? Its a webby thingumajig? Sign up? Sign up for what? Oh it's a website for web something. nice font.
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by Malarkey73 13y ago
Really? - I'm suggesting we cover up sexist behaviour. No I'm suggesting if you are going to publicly accuse someone of sexism you should have something to back that up. I'm suggesting as you note yourself that it's unfa
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by Malarkey73 13y ago
Well I think your reply comes off as highly judgmental :P but hey its the internet. I actually think her general points about the problems in academia are correct but her particular story just smelt wrong. The common place academic line of
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by Malarkey73 13y ago
It must be a difficult process for her readily identifiable adviser to realise he has been labeled a sexist all over the internet by someone who has been in the lab for a couple of years. That said I'm all for a better deal for PhD stu
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by Malarkey73 13y ago
They are wrong because graduate students have never had any relation to the unions or collective power. You are wrong because academic science is indeed a profoundly and increasingly competitive business with insufficient places for all to
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by Malarkey73 13y ago
OK this is a shame... but a quick look at the authors CV (on her webpage) shows that she graduated in 2007 and has two scientific publications, neither first author... which is OK for someone who appears to be 2 years into a PhD. But readin
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Pastor Fred Phelps: 'An angry, bigoted man who thrived on conflict'(theguardian.com)
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by Malarkey73 13y ago
No. I don't believe a word of that. And your analogy undermines your own argument. If you had said Michael Jordan or Lionel Messi ... but Tom Cruise? Really? Tom Cruise is a perfectly good Tom Cruise (a good actor) but a million other
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by Malarkey73 13y ago
Are wages purely determined by supply and demand though? There is a tale I remember about an economics professor who dumbfounds his class by pointing out that there is a huge surplus of economics students across the country who all want to
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by Malarkey73 13y ago
To add to this I was very surprised recently trying to hire Statisticians/Mathematicians for a computing data-sciency bioinofrmatics role to find that a couple of PhD students had no computing skills at all. No DB, no linux, no scripti
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by Malarkey73 13y ago
This article is ass backwards. It implies that the upper middle classes are poor because they don't keep cash savings. But what it actually suggests is that the middle classes are putting their money into property and investments - whi
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by Malarkey73 13y ago
Multimeters here in the UK are almost always yellow (or red less often). They've been mostly yellow as long as I can remember and I've never heard of Fluke.
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by Malarkey73 13y ago
I don't see why innovation of your software means you have to lose compatibility to old data. It seems to me you can do pretty much anything whilst having a small set of conversion scripts to get the old data into your preferred new fo
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by Malarkey73 13y ago
That's funny. If there is one thing that Python users do more after than diss R - it's steal from R.

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