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by adw 10y ago
> what was obviously a night off Public figures don't get time off. It's one of the ugliest parts of the gig.
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by adw 10y ago
Statsmodels is a grab-bag of various statistical models from linear regression upwards. This is an opinionated library for (some relevant parts of) econometrics.
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by adw 10y ago
(For the avoidance of doubt, I agree with you, I'm just expanding on your thoughts...) You can have effects working both ways at once. A lot of world-class woman scientists seem to wind up working in either brand-new or highly interdis
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by adw 10y ago
Ms. Fowler and all others similarly situated , I would suggest.
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by adw 10y ago
Sometimes you just have large blobs, though! (I'm thinking, for instance, of machine-learned models; big matrices are exactly the kind of thing we have HDF5 and friends for.)
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by adw 10y ago
I have a pet theory that any given system has a maximum cleverness budget. Make sure to spend it on the things which actually matter in your problem domain. Interesting data products often have to spend a lot of that cleverness budget in th
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by adw 10y ago
Yep. Everyone winds up with some war story about cleansing some multi-petabyte data store – but the better data engineers I know try very hard to avoid having two of them.
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by adw 10y ago
I'd agree entirely. Unless you have an exceptional reason, in which case you probably know what you're doing already, build a version of your system which uses either a relational database (with a sensible schema, not a single-tab
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by adw 10y ago
Different communities. Matlab and Octave are big among capital-E engineers, R is for statistics and fights with Python.
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by adw 10y ago
Also in the ABC News/Jaunt VR 360 piece, "Inside North Korea": https://www.jauntvr.com/title/f81fc63d1d (disclaimer: I'm Jaunt's data scientist.)
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by adw 10y ago
They'll lose to Twitch long-term.
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by adw 10y ago
They'd have to sell a heck of a lot of those to justify their valuation.
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by adw 10y ago
Professionally I'm a data scientist, but vocationally I'm interested in how the world works, and "real industry" is an important part of that. Also, I'm British, and the Alliance Boots deal was big news.
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by adw 10y ago
Stefano Pessina. One of the most impressive European entrepreneurs. And he's CEO because the pre-existing management, who got them into this mess, were terrible .
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by adw 12y ago
Speaking strictly to Einstein, he made testable predictions, and that's what made that work a part of the scientific process. Whether something is science or not doesn't affect whether it's good or worthwhile knowledge, thoug
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by adw 12y ago
Not inconceivable the two are connected somehow, of course (either in tribute from Korg or even the other way round; AFX has released a bunch of tracks named after gear, e.g. Fenixfunk 5... and it'd hardly be surprising if certain arti
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by adw 12y ago
The Perdew-Burke-Enzerhof functional, and the generalized gradient approximation, is a Big Honking Deal for accurate quantum-mechanical simulation of solids. For more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Density_functional_the
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by adw 12y ago
Re Yahoo! - http://arxiv.org/pdf/0902.2206.pdf (which uses VW). VW is the (open-source) state of the art. If you want a linear learner, use it.
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by adw 12y ago
Your jobs page is 404ing. Also; tell Toby Andrew said hi.
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by adw 12y ago
My former field's solid-state physics and that's the same deal.
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by adw 12y ago
Yeah, I have that suspicion too, and I secretly hope a language like Julia makes all of this moot: but the question I'm trying to find an answer for is "what language should I use for large-scale-but-not-distributed matrix factori
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by adw 12y ago
Thank you so much! (To answer your question: linear algebra and optimization. I do a lot of Numpy right now, and I see Eigen in my future...)
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by adw 13y ago
For someone who wants to learn "modern C++", particularly for number-crunching, without a strong C background (say... someone who develops predictive models who mostly writes Python and Java, not that I resemble that or anything..
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by adw 13y ago
So that begins to look a bit like the RSA problem, doesn't it? Find a problem which can only be solved efficiently given some "secret" knowledge – where, instead of that knowledge (the prime factors) being secret, the knowled
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by adw 13y ago
Visual programming languages have gone a long way in some niches, too; LabView (lab automation and experimental logging) and Max/MSP (audio and video synthesis) come to mind.
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by adw 13y ago
I guess the /? in the url is here to defeat the dupe filter, but the site loaded much faster for me without it.
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by adw 13y ago
The assumption here is that we know , because we're geniuses, what a good user experience looks like. That's aggressive.
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by adw 13y ago
Sometimes they just lose their digits.
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by adw 13y ago
When I was working on this stuff, the most popular GPLed code was ABINIT – do people still use that? (My lab was a SIESTA shop, and there were a lot of CASTEP people around, but not many using VASP...)
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by adw 13y ago
Flipboard, Palo Alto, CA We're working on building the world's best personal magazine. We're taking that mission literally: my team, this week, just shipped this – http://gigaom.com/2014/01/29/f

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