devilsdounut

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by devilsdounut 11y ago
Not sure 50k-90k for PhDs from top programs is really the case anymore. Companies hiring for data-science type jobs have always been pulling from the pool of quantitative PhDs, and as a result the pharma/genomics companies have been fo
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by devilsdounut 11y ago
Ok, so here it's used to cluster. There are tons of benchmark clustering datasets. Never seen it used on any of those.
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by devilsdounut 11y ago
I'd love to see a success story of this type of analysis outside of their canned examples. I keep seeing them use the same datasets over and over again without any real benchmarks to state of the art. Its amazing how a data product is
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by devilsdounut 12y ago
This brings up a big issue with this type of gamification. If someone prescribes a solution which has a superficial short term effect (think painkillers, etc), they may be rewarded in 'points' (e.g. money) because the patient is
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by devilsdounut 12y ago
How does a company cover itself legally? People in the US love to litigate, especially when it comes to medical issues.
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by devilsdounut 12y ago
Interesting. Any advantages of this over IPython? I see fancy rendering of DataFrames, but there are libraries that let you do this in IPython.
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by devilsdounut 12y ago
Pretty big confidence intervals, unclear what the true test space is. I'm just going to leave this [1] here. [1] http://www.tylervigen.com/
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by devilsdounut 12y ago
My favorite is "Uber for genetic testing". That is exactly what I want, a company like Uber completely ignoring all moral and legal rules with complete access to all of my genetic information.
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by devilsdounut 12y ago
Wolfram has a habit of creating blog posts about the test cases for their algorithms.
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by devilsdounut 12y ago
It uses tmpnb ( http://lambdaops.com/ipythonjupyter-tmpnb-debuts ) to spin up docker instances of a relatively basic IPython demo. I guess they are a bit overloaded right now. Pretty nice gateway drug to show the benefits o
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by devilsdounut 12y ago
Looks pretty academic. I see no mention of data cleaning or more practical considerations in the table of contents.
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by devilsdounut 12y ago
I like Mathematica... while their magic functions don't exactly work for much outside of their demo's, it gives good fodder for open source projects to eventually borrow from. IPython would not be where it is right now with its k
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by devilsdounut 12y ago
Biotechs on the level that YC would fund don't have much incentive to ask for this money. The government has this one covered with the SBIR grants, which come with very few strings attached. While these are clearly not perfect, they