billwilliams

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by billwilliams 13y ago
A comparison that this article makes 'Ah yes Amazon has the best most excellent Virtual machines but Rackspace has the best most excellent public cloud'. I make the best tomato sauce, but my competing friend makes the best tomato
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by billwilliams 13y ago
Snap chat. Sexting is the new communication.
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by billwilliams 13y ago
When an article's main source is the author's son, you know you're in for a treat.
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by billwilliams 13y ago
This is ridiculous. Zagat was not bought for its terrible app. It was bought so google would have an excellent amount of curated data on locations and restaurants. Google pages and google maps had zagat ratings 1 month after Zagat was bough
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by billwilliams 13y ago
Seems fun that AT&T took this down
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by billwilliams 13y ago
Experimental results or GTFO.
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by billwilliams 13y ago
Every time i see a post from medium.com on hacker news it always has some dramatic headline. But then the content tends to be poorly thought out, and more contrarian than insightful. Dear hacker news gods, please don't feed into tablo
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by billwilliams 13y ago
Its easy to get addicted to R syntax / capabilities. (Read: Data scientists are lazy)
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by billwilliams 13y ago
How many people who are calling the events from boston "martial law" and "security theater" are from Boston or more specifically Watertown? Until an armed man with explosives is hiding in your back yard, your opinion is not particularly use
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by billwilliams 14y ago
Another similar project I've seen is https://github.com/nachocab/clickme Haven't played with either, just throwing it out there.
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by billwilliams 14y ago
Use both and you'll see. Python can do modeling, can do exploratory work and is great in production. R is brilliant at exploratory work and modeling. Having a core in functional programming helps too.
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by billwilliams 14y ago
Under no circumstances should rich media be displayed in terminals. I am terrified of progress.
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by billwilliams 14y ago
Those who don't know about computers have two choices. Accept that it is a lack in their knowledge. Or fight fiercely that their ignorance is somehow justified.
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by billwilliams 14y ago
https://npmjs.org/package/mcmc
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by billwilliams 14y ago
Python is inherently not conducive to data analysis the same way R is. Python is not a lisp. R is more lispy, and its functional attributes make it incredibly useful for producing data analysis based code. For fully production ready systems
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by billwilliams 14y ago
R is my mistress and my wife. Hadley Wickham held the ceremony. Data.Table is the glue that holds together our tenuous marriage. cats[color="brown",summary(tooth_length),by=list(breed,age)]. This line of code will efficiently grab all the b
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by billwilliams 14y ago
Before you become a professional data jerk (like myself) people tell you 80% of the job is data scraping, cleaning, organizing, piping etc. And the last 20% is the analysis and stats (or predictive whosiwhatsits). They're lying. Its 85% cle
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by billwilliams 14y ago
Opinionated software is tremendous. By removing bullet points and telling users to read 5 some odd pages of dogmatic documentation you're letting the passion ooze from your project. Its saying "if you don't care about your window manager, w