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by dswalter 7y ago
Depending on who you follow, it's one of the best link aggregation sites around. Care deeply about refugee rights in Myanmar? Follow a few folks and you'll gain insight into the kinds of things like-minded folks are thinking about
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by dswalter 7y ago
Let's say you have a company that tries to make online checkout more efficient by predicting which payment the user will prefer, and research shows that if the user is first presented with a payment method they use, they are more likel
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by dswalter 7y ago
Honestly, I view Google as a large impediment to python3. If they'd bit the bullet and spent 10MM on transitioning over back in 2012 or so, the perception that 2.7 was still 'the real python' wouldn't have persisted near
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by dswalter 7y ago
> no end in sight for Python 2.7 That's not correct. Numpy, for example, will not be supporting python2.7 starting January 1st, 2020 ( https://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy-1.14.2/neps/dropping-python... ),
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by dswalter 8y ago
> I get the impression from that the author is an ancient backend Thanks for this clear example of an offhanded dismissal.
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by dswalter 8y ago
It's not entirely clear what you're saying here. Does your business use these solutions as a way to enrich the information needed used by someone assembling your products, or do you use them to ensure everyone's eyes are look
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by dswalter 8y ago
Nobody's perfect, but BurntSushi isn't someone who typically does things by half measures.
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by dswalter 8y ago
The other thing is that the 'gg' in ggplot2 is the Grammar of Graphics, which describes a high-level grammar for composing visualizations. Having an underlying grammar makes it possible for the syntax to have logical consistency,
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by dswalter 8y ago
In the wake of the Theranos debacle, I would expect to see the FDA take a stronger stance against medical startups that are taking actions that have real potential impact without evident clinical support.
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by dswalter 8y ago
I couldn't find any license information for BlazingSQL. Where is that available?
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by dswalter 8y ago
Presto's set of functionality ( ANSI-compliant SQL plus so much more) is a pleasure to use as a data scientist who does a bunch of analysis. JSON, arrays, maps, dates, HLL, spatial stuff, rich aggregation functions, etc. The only real
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by dswalter 8y ago
This really undersells what Quasimondo does with his GANs. What he does is not just firing up a GAN and sampling some pictures. He's an explorer navigating uncertain realms. https://mobile.twitter.com/quasimondo/st
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by dswalter 8y ago
I expect this raise to result in a number of enhancements to the user experience which make it a more pleasant and enjoyab[Open this link in the Reddit App?]le place to discourse.
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by dswalter 8y ago
From an ease-of-use perspective, it certainly had the room to improve.
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by dswalter 8y ago
The wisdom that comes from running things in production makes open-ended questions about those gotchas useful interview questions. 'looks like you used kubernetes for a major project recently. What were some of the unexpected warts?&#x
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by dswalter 8y ago
Since it's part of what looks like an overall project (ixy) to show how it's possible to do this sort of low-level programming in a variety of languages (the roadmap includes js and python), the developer experience is an importan
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by dswalter 8y ago
Per a talk from Joshua Liebow-Feeser at the Rust Belt Rust 2018 conference, Google is heavily using Rust for networking in their new Fuchsia operating system. This is a rough approximation of a quote he gave during the talk: "What make
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by dswalter 8y ago
The underlying reasoning behind PCSA/HLL (that if you squint, you can use the zeros and ones from a hash as analogues to coin-flipping, and can use the probability of the rarest event seen to estimate the total number of events seen) i
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by dswalter 8y ago
Google is heavily investing in cloud; in 2015 they embarked on a sizable shift, where they decided it was worth using their considerable head starts in databases and machine learning. They open-sourced Kubernetes and Tensorflow that year, b
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by dswalter 8y ago
I think the parent comment was saying that none of these were primarily made by cloudera.
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by dswalter 8y ago
I think Google has pretty good deep learning-based word prediction for their Swype-style Android keyboard. There was a period, maybe 1.5 years ago, during which text input prediction got substantially worse, then gradually improved. Along w
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by dswalter 8y ago
PSA for anyone reading this, the phrase is colloquially "burying the lede." "The lede" is a journalistic term roughly meaning the gist of the story. http://grammarist.com/usage/lead-lede/
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by dswalter 8y ago
A half-decent software engineer can easily and quickly produce a lot of data products. If you divide the responsibilities of a data scientist into two broad categories: * Can I get the answer I need/build the product I need? * What is
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by dswalter 8y ago
If your target is a data scientist role at Google, you're probably going to want more schooling. But if you've been producing value in a DS/ML role for years, you have experience , which is even more rare than some of the qu
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by dswalter 8y ago
Cars weigh thousands of pounds and routinely drive upwards of 60 miles per hour. The success of the first iPhone or Facebook app didn't depend on using it to navigate through life-and-death situations not only for the users but also fo
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by dswalter 8y ago
You can also view Facebook messages on mobile without Messenger by switching to the "Desktop Site" mode for your mobile browser.
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by dswalter 8y ago
I don't think there is anyone in the python ecosystem who is as good as Hadley Wickham at understanding data analysts and designing API's that a budding analyst can reason through and understand. ggplot2 is of course the prime exa
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by dswalter 8y ago
That's a good term. I'm sure you've found this collection of links on 'streaming algorithms'. It's a gold mine of resources in this space: https://gist.github.com/debasishg/8172796
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by dswalter 8y ago
It always makes me happy to see approximate algorithms/data structures like hyperloglog being used.
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by dswalter 8y ago
That went gloriously off the rails.

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