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by _coveredInBees 8y ago
That GE Digital failed, is no surprise to folks like me who worked (left there a couple of years back just before things got especially bad with layoffs) at GE's R&D labs and were always skeptical of the flashy sales pitch surround
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by _coveredInBees 8y ago
Not exactly. "Extend those wrapper libraries" is not at all trivial or easy because when the wrapper library / charting library creates abstractions, it also places some limitations on the overall customizability. So when the
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by _coveredInBees 8y ago
I could not agree more with you. So many folks here seem to be missing the actual utility of D3 and why it still remains relevant and useful in todays JS/Web landscape. If you need standard stuff, there are plenty of awesome plotting l
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by _coveredInBees 8y ago
Yeah, but then you just end up making another charting library which is less flexible and limited by the constraints forced by your abstractions. There is a fundamental reason why D3 has remained relevant for so long in an ever-changing JS&
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by _coveredInBees 8y ago
Everyone shitting on D3 here should stop and consider that there must be some fundamental reason why a library like D3.js has withstood the test of time in the JS landscape, when most libraries go out of fashion within months. Most of the c
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by _coveredInBees 8y ago
This is an absolutely ridiculous article. There is zero substance to it, nor any meaningful discussion of any sort. I kinda expected more from an article on Time :-/
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by _coveredInBees 8y ago
*piqued
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by _coveredInBees 8y ago
He added it in after my and other folks' comments. It wasn't up on his site originally.
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by _coveredInBees 8y ago
All the best man! You have a very impressive portfolio. I know you said you put your site together in a rush, but if you get a chance, I think you'd be helped a ton by making it more inline with your personal site in look and feel, and
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by _coveredInBees 8y ago
Op, while I hope you manage to land a gig, I'll be a bit critical here and say that your webpage/resume could use a fair bit of work. 1. You have zero links to projects or things you've worked on (even if it is a simple calcu
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by _coveredInBees 9y ago
I think this article could have used a few more Amazon affiliate links. I always enjoy a well-researched article with lots of irrelevant cross-references.
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by _coveredInBees 9y ago
I'm a bit surprised by that comment. I actually find Prime to have pretty good content and typically better movies than Netflix (who's movie library has been shrinking pretty drastically over the years). If you haven't alread
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by _coveredInBees 9y ago
Sure, NNs "could" do that...but they are far more likely to just memorize a bunch of stuff when someone who isn't well versed with ML just applies an out of the box solution to a problem, looks at a simplified cross-validatio
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by _coveredInBees 9y ago
It's not just technical decisions... the entire site is a single web-page with zero content except for trying to harvest emails. I mean, if you want people to spam such low quality stuff on HN, then I guess that's your prerogative
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by _coveredInBees 9y ago
This is such buzzword powered horseshit. Absolutely nothing about this problem domain requires Deep Learning. Simple regression models if implemented properly can do just fine. Not to mention that sites like Redfin/Zillow have access t
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by _coveredInBees 9y ago
Try pip installing scipy or Numpy and you'll see the value of conda.
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by _coveredInBees 9y ago
Or just disable scripts from nytimes.com using uMatrix or some similar extension.
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by _coveredInBees 9y ago
Yeah, I work at a startup where we specialize in signal processing + ML. We have a robust set of infrastructure in MATLAB (use our own ML libraries rather than MATLAB's libs) and try as we might, we haven't been able to switch alt
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by _coveredInBees 9y ago
I learned D3 a year back and am reasonably fluent at it now and I'm not sure I would ever pick this platform to learn D3. The easiest way to learn is simply to have a blank HTML file with your D3 code in it. The reason you want to do t
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by _coveredInBees 9y ago
It's okay. Still just scratches the surface. Felt a bit too superficial for my tastes. He still does a good job of explaining intuitions and at a simpler level, but it definitely isn't very rigorous and the homework assignments st
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by _coveredInBees 9y ago
Coursera used to be great. I've taken several courses in the past. The problem is that most courses were one-and-done deals where they were put up and there was instructor + TA participation during the first 1-2 times the course ran. S
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by _coveredInBees 9y ago
I believe that only a small subset of courses on Coursera can be taken for free while being able to do the quizzes and assignments. A lot of them are restricted though.
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by _coveredInBees 9y ago
Coursera has been sliding steadily into irrelevance over the past couple of years. It started with lofty goals, and then at some point it just became a money grab when they refused to let you take quizzes and assessments without paying. Tha