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by dfmooreqqq 3y ago
I'm not sure that's really true. Take, for example, the Harry Potter movies. They were great, but imperfect, and were really well received. But they are still being readapted into a TV series.
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by dfmooreqqq 4y ago
According to disclosures: Less than 1% of NPRs budget comes from government grants ( https://www.npr.org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finance... ). Other sources put it maybe as high as 4% ( https://ww
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by dfmooreqqq 4y ago
The base b here would be base 37.5 :)
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by dfmooreqqq 4y ago
A bit off topic, but William Dalrymple's book "The Anarchy" does an excellent job tracking the development of the East India Company from "the king gives you a right to establish trade with India" to the "the p
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by dfmooreqqq 4y ago
Early in my career, I worked for a company that had one of its five core values as "Maximize shareholder value" and these would get displayed all around the company (as if they were supposed to inspire us). I thought (1) 'I c
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by dfmooreqqq 4y ago
In 1960, we had 16 MLB teams [1]. We currently have 30 [2]. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_in_baseball 2. https://www.espn.com/mlb/standings
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by dfmooreqqq 5y ago
> I think to reduce social media to some of the crappy jobs it does serve artificially diminishes what it can be. I agree completely with this. The article takes two bad parts of social media and assumes that those are the only uses for
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by dfmooreqqq 5y ago
I agree completely with this. I have an Applied Physics Ph.D. and have a similar experience. I think that if you are getting a Ph.D. for a reason other than enjoying the learning and the education, then it doesn't make too much sense
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by dfmooreqqq 5y ago
Me too. If anything STEM is gaining steam.
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by dfmooreqqq 6y ago
To be fair, lots of local nightly news shows in America have local restaurant reviews. My parents live outside of Asheville, NC, and their local nightly news on all the broadcast channels carries restaurant reviews and lots of "around
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by dfmooreqqq 6y ago
I wish there was more on the different types/uses of social media. Twitter != Facebook != Goodreads != HN and so on. Even within different social media there is varying uses - using FB groups to find affinity groups like Woodworkers o
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by dfmooreqqq 6y ago
Agreed. But even RL is often difficult to transfer to other domains of knowledge. Though I agree that this is an important next challenge (and causality has been the "next challenge" for at least the last 5 years), it's often
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by dfmooreqqq 7y ago
> “Lots of distributions give you straight-ish lines on a log-log plot” I agree. I don't remember the last time I've seen a log-log plot that doesn't look linear. I've never found a lot of use in them for actually il
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by dfmooreqqq 7y ago
I have a 5 year old who comes up with a new use for a pool noodle every time he's in the pool. A raft, an octopus, blowing water through it, a spy glass,... The simplest toys have seemingly infinite uses.
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by dfmooreqqq 8y ago
I assumed it was a reference to the surface area of a sphere - which is 4 pi r^2. The point would still hold.
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by dfmooreqqq 8y ago
Which, in reality, the US did do with manifest destiny... Deciding to get the whole space from sea to shining sea...
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by dfmooreqqq 8y ago
JMP was precisely my counterargument to this whole piece. JMP is an excellent data science tool when used correctly and allows for reproducibility. You can even call R from JMP if you need to do something that is easier in R. Further, as ot
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by dfmooreqqq 9y ago
But that seems like more of a problem with news in general than Facebook - nightly news/news websites include headlines and stories like that - but we shouldn't encourage people to just put their heads in the sand...
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by dfmooreqqq 9y ago
"It seems to me that it's not so much that war "is illegal" as "certain countries have declared a monopoly on force and have the means to enforce it."" In some lines of thought, that's the definition
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by dfmooreqqq 9y ago
I think this is a key point - too often, data "scientists" are brought in, given lots of tools, paid lots of money, and then told to just count things. And build dashboards that count things. The data scientists that I have seen t
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by dfmooreqqq 9y ago
When I was in grad school, this is how I traveled each summer with my brother and cousin. We'd pick a country and have our first night (maybe a couple of nights) accommodations picked out and then let the feel of the day guide us. Some
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by dfmooreqqq 10y ago
I tend to think that this is a product of the "newness" of technologies. Old technologies - such as paper, pens, flush toilets, etc. - lasted in part because they were robust and not-precarious. We don't remember the technolo
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by dfmooreqqq 10y ago
I usually wait a week for less biased, more reliable curated news ( http://theweek.com/ )
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by dfmooreqqq 10y ago
Agreed. PowerBI has so much more functionality - and more adding every month. And with the ability to use R to make charts, it has a lot more customizability.
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Nostalgia(danielfmoore.com)
1 points by dfmooreqqq 10y ago|0 comments
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Evolving a fit (and the link to eigenvectors)(danielfmoore.com)
1 points by dfmooreqqq 10y ago|0 comments