altairiumblue

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by altairiumblue 8y ago
There have been many attempts for interventions that increase IQ with little to no evidence that it's at all possible.
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by altairiumblue 8y ago
You really don't. That doesn't mean that it doesn't exist or that it should be ignored
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by altairiumblue 8y ago
In general, you can't take a strictly advisory referendum with a win margin of a couple % to dictate your international policy for decades. More specifically, when the winning side has committed campaign violations and the UK's ow
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by altairiumblue 8y ago
Their incentives with regards to data are aligned differently - Apple make most of their revenue from selling hardware to their users, Google make most of their revenue from selling ads to someone different from their users.
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by altairiumblue 8y ago
What do I see differently - just about anything. What would I tell myself? I wouldn't bother at all. Any advice that I can tell to my younger self was probably also available at the time. And I was really bad at listening to it. Someti
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by altairiumblue 8y ago
Personal machine - Apple Mail - it's simple and it looks good, I don't need anything else. At work - Outlook - also used by everyone else at the company for email + sharing calendars and scheduling meetings. I never use the web UI
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The EU's 'Secret' Brexit Negotiation Exposed(youtube.com)
2 points by altairiumblue 8y ago|0 comments
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Brexit, Briefly: Revisited!(youtube.com)
1 points by altairiumblue 8y ago|0 comments
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by altairiumblue 8y ago
Personally, I don't care for luxury items or brands. But your argument here is a mess - you despise people with passion because of their consumer choices... and you're mixing up consumerism, environment, politics and income inequa
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by altairiumblue 8y ago
Different opinion - I have some interest in the topics he covers but I cannot listen to someone speak with such indifference in their voice for long periods of time. I've tried to listen to his podcast a few times and have never been
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by altairiumblue 8y ago
Rebranding according to what's in demand is all fine, but if you choose data science please make sure that you actually have a solid understanding of statistics and software development. Because ultimately that's what data science
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by altairiumblue 8y ago
Why would it be private? At this point this isn't just a cynical position, it has to be your default if you've watched the privacy problems that every single facebook product has had in the past and is still having at the moment.
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by altairiumblue 8y ago
Math is huge so how you approach this will depend a lot on your starting point and your goal. Which branch of math are you interested in? Do you need it for something specific to your career or is it just a hobby? What's you current le
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by altairiumblue 8y ago
When I saw the headline, at first I thought it was an old article that you can read in a different light and have a laugh. Writing it now is just obnoxious. A lot of text with no meaningful content, mentioning a bunch of problems without of
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by altairiumblue 8y ago
This reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYfNvmF0Bqw
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by altairiumblue 8y ago
Depending on your use case - numpy, pandas, scipy, matplotlib, statsmodels. Also check out R - you may or may not prefer it to Python, especially if you're coming from Matlab.
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by altairiumblue 8y ago
Alteryx - limited functionality, doesn't scale, can't debug properly. But they have a great sales team I suppose. Also SAS. It amazes me how much money some companies are willing to spend on products that are worse than their open
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by altairiumblue 8y ago
All of my books are in pdf and receive zero maintenance - many of them are still incredibly useful.
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by altairiumblue 8y ago
Any discussion on blockchain AI has to also include a serverless big data solution as a quantum cloud microservice . Otherwise you're just leaving money on the table.
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Why There Will Be No Data Science Job Titles by 2029(forbes.com)
6 points by altairiumblue 8y ago|0 comments
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by altairiumblue 8y ago
I think this is because you expect creativity to mean something resembling artistic ability (e.g. painting), while the paper's definition is closer to problem solving (performance on CRATs).
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Listening to music 'significantly impairs' creativity(sciencesources.eurekalert.org)
72 points by altairiumblue 8y ago|57 comments
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by altairiumblue 8y ago
To be more accurate, swap "global warming" with "climate change" and see if your original argument about the double standard holds up.
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by altairiumblue 8y ago
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/xkcd/vignettes/xkcd-...
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by altairiumblue 8y ago
Jake is a great teacher - I would definitely recommend his book to people new to Python for data science, as well as any talk by him that you can find on youtube. Also, it's kind of a shame that matplotlib is still so deeply ingrained
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by altairiumblue 8y ago
Yes, this always struck me as strange and at the time my naive thought was that Apple was overvalued. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTd7Iax-I60 What he says around 00:27 about Snickers applies very much to Apple as a bran
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by altairiumblue 8y ago
I've been wondering about this - why would you pass data from one language to the other? If you already have existing R code, you can easily manage it through R itself.
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by altairiumblue 8y ago
- I really don't think that Python needs an additional layer of abstraction, especially when using scikit-learn which is high level enough as it is. - The workflow in the readme is missing the part when you actually use the model. This
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by altairiumblue 8y ago
The network effects of everyone being on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram are huge. You can't expect your contacts to move to your network of choice - even if they set up an account, their behaviour and the content they post will b
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by altairiumblue 8y ago
They have all the data. They should be able to do better than this.

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