digitalzombie

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by digitalzombie 8y ago
> You dont make the rules about how someone gets to speak. I don't have to make any rules. I'm saying how he did it got him fired. If you think how he did it is correct go ahead and do it in all of those tech companies. You thi
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by digitalzombie 8y ago
> It is an odd thing that a company can on the one hand become known as the one firing an engineer who tried to open an honest discussion on a hot subject like 'gender discrimination' because that engineer was deemed to lack a
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by digitalzombie 8y ago
Written by the creator of the bootstrap method in statistic. Bayesian isn't used much in the industry compare to frequentist approach. Likelihoodist is even rarer. I've learned a bit on Bayesian but end up refocusing on time serie
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by digitalzombie 8y ago
Uh... so the bottom one of the or is CSV 1.1? How do you define headers? There's no header for the bottom csv version so I have to manually type headers for my data frame? I got a dataset with 87 obs and ~8700 columns here. I'm no
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by digitalzombie 8y ago
They recently added terminal to RStudio. I'm so happy not switching between two app Iterm2 and RStudio.
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by digitalzombie 8y ago
> This trope is getting old. Variations include "Go is only popular because Google spends millions marketing it!". I chose Angular.js because of google actually. And then Google did me dirty with Angular 2. Corporate sponsorshi
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by digitalzombie 8y ago
I disagree. They can do whatever they want because it's passion driven. If people finds the new language wonderful they'll choose to spend their time there and to create their own community around it. It's their free time and
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by digitalzombie 8y ago
> In the mid-1980s, just as the Aids crisis peaked and US scientists discovered the virus that caused the disease was borne by blood, American drug companies knowingly sold HIV-tainted blood products in Asia. It wasn't just an Ameri
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by digitalzombie 8y ago
> statistics is a three year long grueling applied maths degree, and condensing it to three weeks is silly. I agree. I was in a very prestige organization and they didn't know what a statistician really do and just hired CS machine
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by digitalzombie 8y ago
Again the main point of my post was the FUD about Oracle and opensource is not base on nothing. Oracle's past actions toward open source shows this. You're welcome to disagree with counter argument, I would like to learn and be wr
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by digitalzombie 8y ago
I remember exactly what Sun Microsystem did it breached and been waving a carrot in front of Apache about TCK. What's stopping Oracle from giving TCK now? Also that's exactly not the whole truth you're presenting. https:&#x2
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by digitalzombie 8y ago
It's not like they did a hostile take over, sued Google for API, and dump their failing project to apache or anything. Or refused to give TCK to apache harmony project. Or hell even tons of anecdote of Oracle buying out services just t
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by digitalzombie 8y ago
> will be cleaning sewers until death comes. What does this mean? Is this a prison punishment?
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by digitalzombie 8y ago
You're the reason why I inherit project that uses only ES and then end up doing relational schema in ES because they didn't use relational database in general. If you had to choose between PostgreSQL or ElasticSearch then you have
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by digitalzombie 8y ago
We, the USA, is not going to have any friends left... Seems like Trump is pissing off Canada, Mexico, NATO, and EU.
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by digitalzombie 8y ago
> why don’t we split the data sets to train and update the coefficients and automate the process. What you just stated is just a pipeline. You can just split the data and train it and automate with tree ensemble that aren't boosting
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by digitalzombie 8y ago
Your CS term for parametric is not quite 1 to 1 with statistic usage for parametric. Also what you're describing is very similar to Bayesian statistic. > But more importantly, LSTMs and neural networks are very much parametric - the
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by digitalzombie 8y ago
> The ancient greeks rejected ( or ignored ) irrational numbers too They didn't rejected it for computational reason. They rejected it because it didn't fit in their framework of how number works. That's the whole point o
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by digitalzombie 8y ago
Bro I feel the same way Kubernetes is so fragile. Docker have gone along way but Kubernetes they need more and more version. I feel as I get older I'm more incline to wait a few version for the bugs to be fix and the api to be solidifi
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by digitalzombie 8y ago
Trying to walk on a rope is pretty hard balancing act. I do want to give a personal view and constructive criticism but any intentional and direct attack toward another domain is not my intention. I think statistic is very well equipped to
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by digitalzombie 8y ago
I agreed, I didn't want come off as a disgruntle statistician and list the weakness of Python. But you're right. I find most Springer, CRC, etc.. books are in R with accompanying R packages. Shumway & Stoffer Time series book
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by digitalzombie 8y ago
> In my experience, all statisticians can do the first, almost none can do the second. I think a phd statistician can do this. Master statistic does not touch upon field and measure theory in statistical inference so many questions get
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by digitalzombie 8y ago
I think we're talking about different roles. I'm coming at it from just a modeler role and it seems like you are stating more of a full stack within the data science. I took OP remark as if it was just within data analyst in term
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by digitalzombie 8y ago
I've seen them do random forest on temporal data. They tried to fix it with PCA.
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by digitalzombie 8y ago
> why can't data science simply be about applying the scientific method in the realm of data analysis? That's what a statistician do. I've seen these ML and Datascience people. And the majority the time how they tackle dat
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by digitalzombie 8y ago
> What is classless JavaScript? Sounds like old school javascript. Either just functional programming or prototype inheritance.
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by digitalzombie 8y ago
I don't get your statement. But to clarify I was talking about how the crowd in RoR have a high uptick on vim editors. I was reminiscing on the old days of RoR that may have contribute to some more people adopt Vim. A casual google sho
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by digitalzombie 8y ago
> How did Vim become so successful? I recall the early days of RoR crowd were pushing for Vim too. It was hipster in term of adopting new and awesome things and RoR crowd really push some new things. This was when the editors war was sti
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by digitalzombie 8y ago
Preemptive is pretty nice. You can have a for loop that runs forever and not take over. It does processes nicely they're green thread iirc very fast to create. Clustering is built into it with security. It's built for soft real ti
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by digitalzombie 8y ago
> Here is a phase 3 that succeeded and failed. Clearly it works. That's not clearly works. Quantifying works/succeed with statistic is how you know it clearly works because it's statistically significant. Other wise your c

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