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by alexilliamson 4y ago
Money? No press is bad press
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by alexilliamson 4y ago
How do you know your breath stinks? Isn't that really hard to detect on yourself?
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by alexilliamson 4y ago
I remember looking into this and being surprised it was controversial when DHH (lol) got up on a soapbox about how flossing was a scam promoted by Big Dental.
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by alexilliamson 4y ago
Be realistic, not a single person will suffer consequences for continuing to say "white space".
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by alexilliamson 4y ago
Why didn't you like it? I thought it was pretty universally loved. This is the first I've heard someone express disappointment.
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by alexilliamson 4y ago
I'm going to take this opportunity to plug the excellent documentary Life Itself - about Ebert. It really makes you appreciate the mark he left on film criticism and the industry in general.
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by alexilliamson 4y ago
The last sentence describes the band Rush for me. Three such incredible musicians coming together to make meh music.
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by alexilliamson 4y ago
The scikit learn documentation is also really fantastic
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by alexilliamson 4y ago
This would imply that the confidence interval around the coefficient in a logistic regression is not a very useful concept, which I don't think is true.
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by alexilliamson 4y ago
I was so happy to see this mentioned. I'm on book 8 which is shaping up to be my favorite so far. I wanted a new epic series after Hyperion, so this has been the year of Malazan!
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by alexilliamson 4y ago
There is IMO a coherent moral framework that says "this is harming no one"
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by alexilliamson 4y ago
The Act of Killing - it's hard to even describe the premise. Its a present-day (2012) profile on participants in the 1960s mass killings in Indonesia. An absolutely brutal look into human nature.
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by alexilliamson 4y ago
+1 for Vietnam. And Jazz. And The West. There is something about starting a Ken Burns series that is super relaxing, and releases the pressure to find the "perfect thing" to watch for the next 10-20 hours. Vietnam is particular
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by alexilliamson 5y ago
Fun fact this is also true about Chicago except it's 11am.
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by alexilliamson 5y ago
Not to mention the auto complete that comes with RStudio. Is there any way to get equivalent functionality in Jupyter?
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by alexilliamson 5y ago
I'm glad someone else got on this soap box today. Folks will bend over backwards to justify the U-3 rate when it's not that meaningful at all.
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by alexilliamson 5y ago
Andrew Gelman's blog is fantastic and always happy to see it on HN. I don't have the link handy, but the HN crowd would love his critiques of Why We Sleep.
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by alexilliamson 5y ago
OT but Tree of Life was definitely a critical hit in 2010.
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by alexilliamson 5y ago
In New Orleans at least, there is a ton of lead in the soil. When I was working for the City, playgrounds were prime targets for remediation.
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by alexilliamson 5y ago
RStudio has pretty amazing python support now FYI
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by alexilliamson 5y ago
These three comments really hit home. Thanks!
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by alexilliamson 5y ago
Longreads is great... I actually thought that was the one shutting down and just breathed a sigh of relief
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by alexilliamson 5y ago
Hyperion by Dan Simmons. I had an itch for some good epic world-building after finishing the Game of Thrones books and giving up on the next ones being released. Was not disappointed. Structurally, Hyperion is a play on Canterbury Tales,
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by alexilliamson 5y ago
I think it probably goes on more than people outside of local government realize. I only worked for the City of New Orleans for two years, but in that time we had delegations from governments in Japan and Israel visit our office to talk ab
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by alexilliamson 5y ago
Yes exactly! Deriving calculus from set axioms truly opened my mind to math, and more generally critical thinking.
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by alexilliamson 5y ago
Yes this the tradeoff we need to make more explicit in these discussions. Is it better to err on the side of feeding too many people? Or do we err on the side of extensively validating peoples' hunger status, knowing that for every i
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by alexilliamson 5y ago
If you're an excel wiz, you build it once and when you need to update, you drop in new data and everything magically is updated.
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by alexilliamson 5y ago
Also in insurance. I'm a big fan of using python to generate "read-only" pretty formatted workbooks. It makes the process more reproducible but people who "need my data in excel" still get that.
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by alexilliamson 5y ago
Well thats the whole point of the debt book. Taking that progression and poking holes in it. IIRC, Graber suggests that physical money came in too play when kings needed to levy armies.
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by alexilliamson 5y ago
True about the AC. But Seattle is slightly cooler year-round, right?

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