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   by bigger_cheese 3y ago

   At least here in Australia you get pretty decent food at pubs I mean it's not going to blow your socks off but any pub worth it's name will serve a decent Chicken Schnitzel or Parmigiana. It's the high end hipster bars that t
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   by bigger_cheese 3y ago

   >Herbert's elaborate spiritual systems then become manifestations of the culture under religion, but don't hold true moral or philosophical significance that religion is supposed to have, because the true moral reality in his s
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   by bigger_cheese 3y ago

   >Did Herbert have a plan for this combo, or was he just making up some future backstory? It has been a very long time since I read all the novels so I can't recall all the details. It is a major plot point in book 5 "Heretics o
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   by bigger_cheese 3y ago

   If you are doing data analysis I don't think any of the 3 pieces of software you mentioned are going to be that helpful. I see these products as tools for data visualization and reporting i.e. presenting prepared datasets to users in a
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   by bigger_cheese 3y ago

   Also Australian, about 10 years ago my local council aggressively installed parking meters everywhere around the shopping mall and they have steadily jacked up the price ever since. Public transport where I am is crap, so driving is essenti
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   by bigger_cheese 3y ago

   I'm Australian and I've always pronounced "Source" and "Sauce" such that they sound the same. I think the rhyming slang part comes from Cockney slang my Dad always used to say "Dogs Eye and Dead Horse&quot
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   by bigger_cheese 3y ago

   > am in the process of launching a new Open-Source project for Civil/Mechanical/Chemical engineers I'm in this group (I'm a Materials/Chem eng). We have recently started using media wiki internally for all sorts
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   by bigger_cheese 3y ago

   I'm not a data scientist (my background is Engineering) I use Azure ML Studio. the regression feature uses an ensemble of different algorithms there is an explanation here. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure&#
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   by bigger_cheese 3y ago

   Maybe try slopes and second derivatives (change in temperature over time and so forth) could also try introducing various lag windows into timeseries data. edit: I've Also seen a lot of pitches about predictive maintenance / autom
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    by bigger_cheese 3y ago

    I work mostly with regressions and often it is almost more informative when something you expected to be a significant term isn't. Can help track down interesting behavior. More recently Machine learning has really enhanced what you ca
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    by bigger_cheese 3y ago

    I think you need to go a step further and define a few more terms like what you mean when you say "Analytics" and "business intelligence" For example >PowerBI - microsoft business analytics I don't think I would
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    by bigger_cheese 3y ago

    I also get this very strong feeling of having forgotten something when I get into my car. It used to happen almost daily. I would get into my car reverse out of my driveway. I would drive towards my workplace for about 2 to 5 minutes until
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    by bigger_cheese 3y ago

    Energy intensity is an issue with hydrogen steelmaking. To produce hydrogen by electrolysis at the large scale needed for steelmaking requires a massive amount of electricity. Ideally it needs to be green electricity as well. So if there is
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    by bigger_cheese 3y ago

    One thing that I have noticed confuses a lot of people is "timeseries joins" (I don't know the real term for this) I'm talking about where there is no "one to one" match between keys in the two tables. I'm
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    by bigger_cheese 3y ago

    I'm also Australian but I do not think our style of compulsory voting would be popular in the US, my understanding is the way elections are managed in the US suppresses the voter turnout. For example in the US they have their election
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    by bigger_cheese 3y ago

    Are the fish always the same color/is their color distinct from the background. I work at an industrial plant we have been able to measure a lot of things simply by analyzing the pixels in the video. For example one application we have
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    by bigger_cheese 3y ago

    That sounds similar to how my school in Australia worked. I wanted to study Engineering at university so was required to have a certain amount of advanced Mathematics courses as well as physics. We had two Math Streams, the advanced stream
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    by bigger_cheese 3y ago

    I'm not from the US so I am admitting to being somewhat ignorant here but my understanding is that Banking Consumer Protection laws (and attitudes) are very different in the US at least when compared to where I live (Australia). Here t
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    by bigger_cheese 3y ago

    When I was learning to read Japanese the Hiragana alphabet was displayed in a somewhat periodic table-esque format. The vowel ending sounds were the vertical axis (a,i,u,e,o) then next column was ka, ki, ku, ke, ko - then sa, shi, su, se, s
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    by bigger_cheese 3y ago

    Yeah the "programming" part has always thrown me off when I started my first Engineering job one of the guys was always talking about an "LP" model I thought it was some deep piece of black magic until I realized it was
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    by bigger_cheese 3y ago

    I had a 486 dx4/100 there was a checkbox in winamp options you needed to tick in order to be able to play mp3's, I've long since forgotten what it was labelled but when you checked the tickbox it worked and audio played corre
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    by bigger_cheese 3y ago

    It depends on the age I think. I used to play a lot of games but as I've gotten older I've found myself with less time. I've also noticed my reflexes have gotten a lot worse, I'm in my late 30's I struggle with some
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    by bigger_cheese 3y ago

    Even in the STEM world I don't think statistics is taught all that well. I studied Engineering a STEM subject, this was sometime ago (2000's) and at that time we were required to take a "statistics for engineers" course
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    by bigger_cheese 3y ago

    That is exactly why I bought a Mazda earlier this year. I wanted to upgrade to a larger car (since 2010 I have driven a 2 door Toyota Yaris it was getting to hard to manage without extra doors) wanted something plain, reliable that I could
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    by bigger_cheese 3y ago

    SIL is used in my industry (Industrial manufacturing and Refining). It covers more than software though. Mostly system integration - for example things like interlocks and whether a valve will fail open/closed etc. In one instance we w
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    by bigger_cheese 3y ago

    I am Australian. When I was assigned Jury duty in 2016, my Company continued to pay me (I think this is a legal requirement if you are a full time employee), I showed my manager the letter from the court and I was instructed to enter a leav
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    by bigger_cheese 3y ago

    I'm an Engineer (not a scientist) not sure how much is applicable to other fields but when I've been interested in what the "current state of topic X is" I have looked for recently published thesis on the topic, a good t
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    by bigger_cheese 3y ago

    Thankyou - good to know there is a name for the pattern I'm reading more about it now.
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    by bigger_cheese 3y ago

    >Probably an unpopular opinion, but I think having a central database that directly interfaces with multiple applications is an enormous source of technical debt and other risks, and unnecessary for most organizations. Read-only users ar
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    by bigger_cheese 3y ago

    I can second this, in my Engineering degree the Linear Algebra course (and the Calculus course) were both taught by the Math Faculty at my Uni. The textbook we used was "Linear Algebra: And its Applications" by David C Lay 20 year