alexilliamson

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   by alexilliamson 9y ago

   GTD 4 life
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   by alexilliamson 9y ago

   I think the article you mention supports the opposing from the one you are defending: that article seems to be saying the ultimately the President can decide to ignore everyone else's judgement and launch anyway. Care to elaborate on
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   by alexilliamson 9y ago

   I would argue that KISS and Van Halen were incredibly main stream and are usually considered metal... at least van Halen
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   by alexilliamson 9y ago

   The integration with R is awesome. I was amazed to see that you can create a chart with R code - with ggplot for instance - along side "native" power BI charts, and the ggplot graphic responds to filters and other report-level ma
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   by alexilliamson 9y ago

   Do you have an example or two of changed since since 7.8.11? As someone who started using org-mode at the end of last week, I'd like to make an informed decision on whether or not to go ahead and tattoo this to my forearms, or whether
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   by alexilliamson 9y ago

   From the article: "The statistical significance of the drop is extremely strong" I haven't read the source paper yet, but the way this is phrased makes me skeptical of the strength of these findings. Having worked briefly on
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   by alexilliamson 9y ago

   "The Silk Roads: A New History of the World" By Peter Frankopan. This book tackles essentially all of human history, tying together the world's major cultural shifts with the socioeconomic forces that brought them to pass.
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   by alexilliamson 9y ago

   Keeping the calculation back of the envelope, if the population is 320 million and you want $12k a year for everyone, that's 3.9 trillion dollars. If US GDP is 18 trillion, you would need tax an additional 20% of everything to fund UB
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   by alexilliamson 9y ago

   Octopus - it's a water animal
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    by alexilliamson 10y ago

    What happens when I dispute The Onion? What happens when FAKENEWS_OUTLET gets disputed and claims it's The Onion? It feels like Facebook is taking us for a ride here...
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    by alexilliamson 10y ago

    Slaughterhouse Five has been my least favorite Vonnegut that I've read. However, I've absolutely loved the other few that I've read, most recently Cat's Cradle.
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    by alexilliamson 10y ago

    I would be curious to hear some opinions from people here on The Outline, both in terms of design and content. I was really pumped for its launch, which happened in late 2016 (maybe November?), but in the time since I've only occasion
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    by alexilliamson 10y ago

    But I think the author was careful to sprinkle caveats so as to avoid universal recommendations. Rather, it take on a few common abuses. About the mean vs. median, it might be true that "mean" is appropriate in just as many conte
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    by alexilliamson 10y ago

    There are still posts with no link to the comments. Seems like it is happening whenever the summary is also missing below the title (currently "5. Ask HN: Leave job right before app goes to production?" is like this)
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    by alexilliamson 10y ago

    This is great thank you. I'm a super-novice, but extremely fascinated by this field. I just ordered his book Quantum Computing since Democritus.
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    by alexilliamson 10y ago

    That felt informative. Was it... informative??
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    by alexilliamson 10y ago

    > many of us who are still dependent on MS products that haven't been getting much attention (SQL Server and it's related BI tools) What about Microsoft's investment in R and integrating it with SQLServer? Seems like at l
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    by alexilliamson 10y ago

    Went to a few seattle.rb meetups, and truly felt like the experiences captured what makes Seattle/Ruby weird, wonderful.
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    by alexilliamson 10y ago

    I read the comments before reading the piece, as one tends to do, and I started out on the side of the narrator being pretentious, if that's the best word to describe enthdegree's feelings on the conveyed tone. Interestingly, how
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    by alexilliamson 10y ago

    Topology has always seemed like the exotic yet substantive branch of mathematics... would love to see more reading like this posted.
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    by alexilliamson 11y ago

    Location: New Orleans Remote:Yes Willing to relocate: No Github: alexilliamson Technologies: Ruby, Rails, HTML, CSS, Python, R, Stata, SQL, Data Engineering, Analytics,Business Intelligence Email: alexilliamson@gmail.com
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    by alexilliamson 12y ago

    Chicago, IL, prefer to relocate anywhere else Resume: please contact Tech: Ruby, Rails, R, Stata, Weka, VBA, TSQL Email: alexilliamson gmail