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by carljv 5y ago
Mazda is pretty allergic to touchscreens and views them as a safety risk. Environmental controls are physical button and knobs in all models I’ve seen, and even the infotainment feature are controlled with buttons and a central knob. I neve
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by carljv 5y ago
First, the link should probably be to the full report https://www.kaggle.com/nomilk/data-science-language-and-job-... Second, this is data scraped from Australian job listings. So the title should probably reflect that
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by carljv 5y ago
In addition to that, I think some lower-paying roles that used to be analysts or BI specialists are increasingly being called Data Scientists. My guess would be if you controlled for skills and job responsibilities you’d see increases.
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by carljv 5y ago
That is not an accurate description of the book.
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by carljv 5y ago
There’s some overlap, but vectors are essential to the language. Every type of data in R is a vector. There are no scalars, just vectors of length 1. Instead of dictionaries, it’s idiomatic in R to use “lists”, which are vectors of vectors.
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by carljv 6y ago
This. During the period where Uber and Lyft weren't operating in Austin, there were several local alternatives that popped up right away, worked just fine, operated within local regs, and that I honestly preferred service-wise. If Aust
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by carljv 6y ago
If one is working on AI dealing with facial recognition and is oblivious to the potential for bias, and the unethical applications of that technology, at this point in the game, I can only assume it's willful.
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by carljv 6y ago
> It's not the job of the AI researcher to solve "social biases" in every field, it's their job to build the AI. "'Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department&#x27
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by carljv 8y ago
It’s interesting to see how the definition of “tech company” has expanded. Only one or two of these companies create and sell software or technology. These are startups, maybe, and I think we can talk about where the “innovative” companies
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by carljv 8y ago
The R ecosystem around cloud services and their APIs still seems immature, so it’s great to see folks working on packages in the space. I’m not 100% sure if this is providing any new functionality not provided by existing cloudyr projects o
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by carljv 8y ago
Not me. I'd take dplyr and related libraries over pandas any day. I've been using pandas for 6 years and I'm still regularly tripped up by parts of its API.
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by carljv 8y ago
I understand. I believe I pointed that all out my comment above. I wasn't saying that I find the notebooks superior because they allow for rich & dynamic output, but that I find it superior to RStudio when all you want is a qui
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by carljv 8y ago
I mean, as a medium for interactive exploration where you might want graphs and widgets or other rich/dynamic output, I still think the notebook is superior. But as a medium for developing complete, share-able, reproducible data analys
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by carljv 8y ago
The Jupyter team deserves every accolade they get and more. The console, notebook, and now JupyterLab are some of the key reasons why Python's data ecosystem thrives. I think Jupyter notebooks are quite useful as "rich display&quo
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Reflections on Random Kitchen Sinks (NIPS “Test of Time” Award Speech)(argmin.net)
2 points by carljv 9y ago|0 comments
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by carljv 9y ago
Yes, thanks to everyone for keeping it informative and civilized!
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by carljv 9y ago
I think the constant replies of "Oh there's a way to deal with that." Miss the point. You should keep asking yourself, "Am I fixing a problem that didn't need to be there?" Sometimes, the answer is: No, I do wa
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by carljv 9y ago
Like I said, I get why the talk is ruffling feathers, and I think it's fair to feel he's being glib or exaggerating; he is. I've also seen Rich and others discuss these point with more nuance and detail elsewhere so I think I
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by carljv 9y ago
It's a keynote talk, not a panel discussion. Most keynotes are expressions of strong opinions. > The fact that there was an entire slide designated to tearing down a series of videos by SPJ felt not only irrelevant, but also disresp
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by carljv 9y ago
I get why the tone of the talk is ruffling feathers. If I were a serious Haskeller, I think I'd be a little miffed too. But I think it misses the forest for the trees, and I think, as I commented before, it's hard to understand th
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by carljv 9y ago
> There is some basic fundamentals how programming language should work which R just disregards for the sake of being different. So, you can complain that R feels different from languages you're used to, but it's incorrect to a
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by carljv 9y ago
> I feel like it does no benefit to the community to simply let it stand just because the person speaking is someone kinda famous. That's not really what's happening. As I explained in my comment, I've found the technical
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by carljv 9y ago
As someone who really likes Haskell, I've found the response to the talk from Haskellers, like in that thread, really disappointing. The common refrains indicating that Rich doesn't understand Haskell, types, etc. are patronizing
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by carljv 9y ago
Generics can make serialization easier in Haskell, but that's not exactly the point. The point is, once your Haskell program is done with that data, it's getting tossed into a message queue or database, or whatever, that doesn&#x2
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by carljv 9y ago
Agreed that's bad. But then if the transit/messaging/persistence components of your systems are independent of the type system (good), to really use your type system you have to do work pushing things in and out of it, in ret
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by carljv 9y ago
I think type systems that try to "close" aggregates (i.e. saying "an Employee is these fields that have these types and no more") kind of do contribute to the problem. I sort of agree that static types are not "caus
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by carljv 9y ago
I love this talk, but it does throw out a lot of complicated ideas somewhat loosely, so I get why reactions and interpretations are all over the place. I think a good companion to understanding this better is Rich's talk on "The L
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by carljv 9y ago
It's a sort of lisp-y idea. Arguments passed to functions get "quoted", so the function can get or change data about the expression and its scope/environment before evaluating it. Like others have mentioned, it's wh
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by carljv 10y ago
I've been using Triplicate ( http://practicaltypography.com/triplicate.html ) for a few years and it's still my favorite by far. Not free, but really reasonably priced. (Note there's a special variant suitable
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by carljv 10y ago
I picked up _The D Programming Language_ on a whim---having not written a line of the language---and found myself reading it straight through in couple of evenings. It's a really clear, insightful, and funny book about the language&#x2

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