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by ellisv 8y ago
I’m curious why you think this. I use Atom often and for many things so I don’t consider it broken at all.
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by ellisv 8y ago
I must agree Genie.jl is great!
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by ellisv 8y ago
The author is inflexible in his conviction that he has no intention of retiring. (and never will!) In 10, 20, or 30 years he may change his mind, what then? He points out that he's willing to make the trade off of working in exchange f
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by ellisv 8y ago
Similarly you can get your location history from Google (even if you use an iPhone). https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout/custom/location_...
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by ellisv 8y ago
Would you post the raw data? Just so I don’t have to clean it myself.
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by ellisv 8y ago
I think this falls under Finagle's law. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finagle%27s_law
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by ellisv 8y ago
Treasuries (i.e. bonds) are issued for different terms, such as 3-year and 5-year terms. Typically longer term treasuries have higher yields because you're loaning your money for a longer period. The Yield Curve™ is the difference betw
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by ellisv 8y ago
Powerley | Multiple Positions | Royal Oak, MI | Full-time | http://www.powerley.com/ Powerley is connecting the smart grid to the smart home and building the next generation of home energy management. Here are some of the t
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by ellisv 8y ago
You might be interested in this Radiolab podcast from 2015: https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/eye-sky
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by ellisv 8y ago
This post does a comparison to 3.5.x (and Julia). https://nextjournal.com/sdanisch/fastr-benchmark
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by ellisv 8y ago
I almost always hijack to introduce myself. People often mis-hear my name so introducing myself gives me an opportunity to state it multiple times and give them a mnemonic device to help them remember.
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by ellisv 8y ago
This article compares FastR to GNU-R v3.4.0 -- but there were some important changes in v3.5.0 (see http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/04/r-350.html ). I'm not even sure GNU-R is the most important compa
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by ellisv 8y ago
> Unfortunately, it turned out to be a chicken and egg problem. For the feature to work perfectly we needed a large amount of training data to train our models. But without the feature actually deployed, we didn't have any way to co
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by ellisv 8y ago
Several implementations are wrong -- they don't give the correct result.
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by ellisv 8y ago
Remote job? Probably not without experience and/or connections. Portfolio is going to be the most helpful, followed by certifications and nano degrees.
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by ellisv 8y ago
Many common data visualizations pre-date 1987 -- but it certainly would be interesting to read about how technology has changed our approach to them.
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by ellisv 8y ago
Heating/cooling is one of the few large energy consumers in a home with a strong behavioral component. Many appliances that consume a lot of energy don't have the same opportunity for behavioral intervention. I mean, it's not
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by ellisv 8y ago
Can we add [2013] to the title? Julia has changed substantially in the past 5 years…
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by ellisv 8y ago
I can't tell if you're joking or not...
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by ellisv 8y ago
What would you like to see? If there isn't one already I'll make one for you.
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by ellisv 8y ago
Did Stefan (or anyone else) mention how Pkg handles diamond dependencies?
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by ellisv 8y ago
R Markdown already supports Julia [0] and there is a JuliaCall package on CRAN. Anyway I find Atom to be a perfectly fine editor. [0] https://bookdown.org/yihui/rmarkdown/language-engines.html#j...
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by ellisv 8y ago
R is actually only 3 years younger than Python (25yrs and 28yrs respectively).
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by ellisv 8y ago
and the live feed
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Julia v1.0 has been released(github.com)
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by ellisv 8y ago
I'm guessing this [1] is the report you're referring to. The problem is that "contingent workers are persons who do not expect their jobs to last or who report that their jobs are temporary" and I don't think factor
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by ellisv 8y ago
Students usually learn R in a statistics class - while also trying to learn statistics! They usually don't have any prior programming experience so the forgiving nature of the language makes sense. Trying to learn Haskell and statistic
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by ellisv 8y ago
The best language is the one that gets the job done (or one you can use to get the job done). I've used R for a long time and agree it is terrible (as a language) but the community has learned from other languages and gotten much bette
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by ellisv 8y ago
> Another non-verbose DSL example is Java date and time format string: > "YYYY-MM-DD'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ" Oh that crazy Java formatting date times using ISO 8601! Although the author didn’t really mention any good DSLs
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by ellisv 8y ago
I think that buying SUVs are more of a symptom of the problem than the cause. Sure they're expensive to buy, insure, and maintain - but most drivers I see are the only one in their vehicle. People aren't doing what is practical, t

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