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by apwheele 3y ago
SEEKING WORK | Remote | Raleigh, NC, USA PhD (in criminal justice), and with my background mostly focus on mathematical modeling in the public sector. This includes program analysis (I did X and want to see if it made Y go down), forecastin
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Reading the paper, this is pretty weak sauce findings. Here is the main scatterplot showing the fit lines, https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AP1GczOuepTKEj908Wc8Gkx... The main findings are suggesting a slope change
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I get that part -- I don't get the bad website though. Like why have a http website? At least have a legit website and advertise your services no? How did they get the contracts for outsourced work to begin with? (Is there some type of
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Ask HN: Scam IT Consulting Firms?
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I have a similar background, and I just use a $5 a month Hostinger plan that manages the PHP server and I am quite happy with it. So it is just keeping my server side secrets in PHP in a way that makes sense. Now, this does not allow me to
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Don't Evaluate Your Model on a Smote Dataset(gmcirco.github.io)
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Matching mentors to mentees using OR-tools(andrewpwheeler.com)
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Transforming Predicted Variables in Regression(andrewpwheeler.com)
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TLDR, maternal morbidity in US sources often widens the net to include things like drug overdoses. Whereas other sources do not, and that can explain the discrepancy between US and other nation maternal mortality rates. Read this article th
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Adjusting Predicted Probabilities for Sampling(andrewpwheeler.com)
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Outliers in Distributions(andrewpwheeler.com)
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An alt take on opioid treatment coverage in North Carolina(andrewpwheeler.com)
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Agreed a bit of different use cases. (Or maybe should say the SPC approach is a better/more principled approach, whereas this is an easy graphical approach and I don't need to worry about "resetting" the CUSUM.) I use th
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Not SPC, but in a similar spirit usecase, I have code examples here of calculating confidence intervals around proportions in SQL, https://andrewpwheeler.com/2020/11/30/confidence-intervals-a... I am one of t
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Managing R environments using conda(andrewpwheeler.com)
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Agree with this, I am pretty agnostic to the pandas vs R whatever stuff (I prefer base R to tidyverse, and I like pandas, but realize I am old and probably not in majority based on comments online). But many teams who are "R adherent&q
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The Value of a PhD(andrewpwheeler.com)
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I just don't get these to be honest -- besides the fact that author missed simple things like `df.groupby('var',as_index=False)`, isn't this obviously arbitrary "this is easier my way" complaints? (I did R befo
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What does AI regulation in policing look like?(crimede-coder.com)
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For a random bit I feel hackernews crowd will appreciate, I clench my jaw when I get angry. I have given myself TMD (jaw pain closing/chewing and will click/pop in fits). Not recommended. Root causing the source of stress and amen
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by apwheele 3y ago
My area (data science) there is a problem with resume embellishment and HR/tech-recruiters not having a clue (I presume similar across different tech areas). It has gotten to the point where people straight up lie about tech experience
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by apwheele 3y ago
Agree about Pakt, but not about $50 self publish per se (nor the tenured prof remark). I am in the process of writing a code book, but it is compiled via quarto so at least you know the code works as expected. This is my favorite helpful ad
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Advice for Learning Statistics(andrewpwheeler.com)
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P-Values with Large Samples(andrewpwheeler.com)
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Streetview has a direct API you can query and download images, https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/streetview/... . Can set the FOV and orientation as well.
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Prediction Intervals for Random Forests(andrewpwheeler.com)
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My Journey Submitting to Cran(andrewpwheeler.com)
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Illegal Employee Handbook Rules(mattbruenig.com)
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Based on personal experience, I have a very different opinion than Daniel. I do not think peer review adds much value over self-publishing. Consumers still need to read and verify the work themselves. Bad stuff gets published in peer review
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The flight of the Weird Nerd from academia(writingruxandrabio.com)
49 points by apwheele 3y ago|35 comments

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