NumberCruncher

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by NumberCruncher 4y ago
This is anything but new. In Germany BMW sells cars since years, where the engine power is throttled by default and the throttling can be disabled for an extra fee. Former colleges of mine are working on the business side of this, trying to
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by NumberCruncher 4y ago
> If you cannot start from the real Objectives and have to make up fake ones The more you understand the real motivation of people the harder it gets to take business goals and decisions seriously.
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by NumberCruncher 4y ago
What I wrote was meant in the context of data science. You can not do ML without having access to real data, not even in highly regulated industries. Obviously you won't touch PIIs. But whether the real data is sitting in your train&#x
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by NumberCruncher 4y ago
> I don't think your interpreting the sentence correctly And I think you are injecting the words "only", "there are" and "everything" here and there just to change the meaning of the sentences I quoted
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by NumberCruncher 4y ago
> That doesn't mean an experienced full stack developer would do Data Science better, because he might lack a lot of skills that matter more in that domain. This resonates with my experience. I had the opportunity to work on a DS co
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by NumberCruncher 4y ago
> We don’t need statistics to learn about the world. A sentence, written by the author on, commented by me on and read by the HN community on devices, which exist only thanks to 80-90 years of rigorous, statistics based QA in engineering
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by NumberCruncher 4y ago
Dealing drugs involves solving interesting problems too nevertheless IMHO it is bad for society and I try to avoid both dealers and addicts if possible.
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by NumberCruncher 4y ago
After 15 years of experience with SAS this sounds to me like saying "knowing how to write and having a pen makes you to a poet". But it depends on how far you can toss a stone...
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by NumberCruncher 4y ago
Either he is onto something or not, but his ego is going to scare any sane person away.
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
Thanks for the insightful comment.
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
> You manage problems and projects and enable people to do their jobs well. This is based on the assumption that people want and can do their jobs well, or at all. Lucky you, if this sounds strange to you.
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
I did not say, that is illegal to fire people in Germany. Nonetheless as an employer you have to obey the laws making firing cumbersome. Laws, not made by slave drivers...
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
This is true, but I remember reading an article where the journalist compared the "only X rooms left with these conditions" claim to the system of the given hotel in real time. Well, as it turned out, the hotel had more than X fre
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
In Germany this isn't a legal move. One of my former employees (global telco everyone knows) tried to do the same, namely moving the contracts of the employees to an other company. 200 of them started a class action and won easily. The
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
> several of the dark patterns don't The "only x room left with these conditions" false claim is used also in the EU.
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
An other good question: why is dropbox scanning abd opening files outside of the dropbox folder?
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
My issue with the JS world is that it is leaking from frontend webdev into other domains. 0.1% of your users having a bad user experience because of using a "just good enough" JS library is pretty fine for me, even if I am - as a
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
Bose quite comfort 35 ii and the 700. We use them 4-6 hours a day due to covid homeoffice and couldn't be happier. IMHO if you want to have something better you have to switch to the studio section and give up the BT.
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
> The data set itself—gathered by marketing insight firm Nielsen—was huge, representing 45 percent of all food store sales in the city This means that in the 5 households Nielsen used as a "representative sample of Seattle's po
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
This resonates with my experience. A couple of years ago I invested more time than I proud of into buying the right bluetooth headset for me. I have found a site with pretty detailed reviews and tested their reviews standing in stores and t
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
> It is astounding to me that a state as paranoid as Israel [...] would actively sell some of that highly sensitive tech to other states that not that long ago had a death wish for Israel You should google up the story of the Swiss compa
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
"I didn't do it on purpose" and "no one knew what we are actually doing". I gonna call it the "data scientist's switchblade...
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
> Tinder has an incentive to keep the paid users paid my making sure it is difficult for them to find a match An evil data scientist would put almost exclusively users on your screen who you are interested in but they are not interested
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
It is the same in Hungarian. "szarni rá" is the exact translation of the German expression.
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
Being a butt in a seat while your manager justifies his position with "someone has to manage the butts in seats" and his manager justifies his position with "someone has to manage the managers of butts in seats" solves a
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
Not OP, but those questions are 2+ years old.
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
> "You may not understand the forces that have led society to be organized the way that it is, but you should respect that sometimes the order of things reflects knowledge you may not have." I just imagine Moses saying "Wh
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
> Most of that time is spent executing poorly crafted Oracle SQL queries drawing millions of rows into the analytical run-time for, sorting, aggregation, discarding, merging, and spliting tasks. I always try to follow the rule-of-thumb o
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
> If your time-machine can follow a continuous path through spacetime between A and B, there is no more problem. Nope, there are still some problems. It's not enough to be at the right space (=coordinates) at the right time, but you
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
If I were you I would do what our working student from Iraq did. Enroll in a German university without tuition fee, do some freelance / working student job on the side until you can turn your student VISA into a normal one.

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