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by gedrap 10y ago
Well, you are right that uber users is not a representative sample of the city population. Biased data is not inherently bad, it's just that you need to be aware of biases.
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by gedrap 10y ago
That's what I did at my tiny engineering team (3 folks) and results have been great. If you have a small organization (say <10 engineers), it's crucial that every developer writing server side applications can also do at least
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by gedrap 10y ago
Async means reducing likelihood that your work will be blocked by someone else (e.g. waiting for response from someone) as it might cause big issues when someone is 10 hours away. If you can't get any work done because you are waiting
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by gedrap 10y ago
Yes, the first chapter or two is dedicated to the basics of R (syntax, etc).
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by gedrap 10y ago
It is very approachable. If you know the difference between mean and median then you know enough to study the book. It is written as a textbook for graduate biology students to help with their research, so it doesn't assume much mathem
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by gedrap 10y ago
- Introductory Statistics with R by Dalgaard, Peter. A solid introduction to stats, don't be scared by R bit in the title - it contains plenty of maths/theory so that knowledge is widely applicable. Brilliant introductory for ever
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by gedrap 10y ago
> until you execute that line of code to make sure there wasn't a misspelled variable name or something But isn't it the purpose of tools such as IDEs? PyCharm is pretty damn good at it. Of course, it's not always possible
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by gedrap 10y ago
> Is that an issue for anyone else -- that you can't remember all these libraries exist when you need them? Yep. I just star them on github and hope that when I need one, I can remember that I starred something like that some time a
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by gedrap 10y ago
Well, when money and power are at question (which is true for pretty much every company), it tends to get the worst of some people.
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by gedrap 10y ago
Good points. I'd add that you should be careful about joining the 'negative' (can't think of a better word) social circles. You know, the kind who are talking about how something sucks or how bad some person is, for the
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by gedrap 10y ago
I'd say it depends on a lot of factors such as local culture, company culture (or team culture for larger companies), etc. So just saying 'there is no point' is probably not an answer.
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by gedrap 10y ago
This is true with a lot of things that people have strong feelings and beliefs associated with, and -isms are good examples of it. For plenty of people, the moment they see 'sexism', 'racism', etc it's over. They ar
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by gedrap 10y ago
I'd assume that "on the internet" means hearing only one side ant not witnessing the story yourself.
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by gedrap 10y ago
As it has been said in the linked article, Craiglist limits the market to local while eBay gave access to global.
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by gedrap 10y ago
Personalized content discovery is not only about filter bubble and I believe the key word here is discovery, not shoving to your face in homepage. It can also mean discovering small subreddits that you might like. Or some old super popular
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Estimating the probability of meeting a sales target using Monte Carlo method(github.com)
2 points by gedrap 10y ago|0 comments
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The Toy Collector's Puzzle (2015)(countbayesie.com)
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by gedrap 10y ago
Trump those things was definitely not acceptable. But we can't undo the election or ignore the results of it simply because we don't find it acceptable. A very large share of American population were happy enough to vote for him.
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by gedrap 10y ago
Sorry but your comment simply indicates the problem. It's quite similar to the post-Brexit discussions, how pro-Bexit people are stupid, etc. We can talk about what a "liar, misogynist, tech illiterate, arrogant and overall a disg
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by gedrap 10y ago
StackOverflow often provides an answer to a specific trivial question faster then going through the docs. There is no point to memorize or read plenty of docs for trivial things such as 'sort array of objects by key', etc. I see n
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by gedrap 10y ago
As someone from a country which strongly depends on NATO (Lithuania, former Soviet state, shared border with heavily militarized Russian territory Kaliningrad), you are spot on.
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by gedrap 10y ago
Exactly. You could do me the minimal amount of work required to stay employed but then you can't expect a generous raise, unless you manage to play office politics very well AND the workplace is quite toxic to allow that. Personally, I
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An Etiquette Guide for Using Uber Pool and Lyft Line(theringer.com)
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How do you remove caffeine from coffee?(avclub.com)
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Ransomware Getting More Targeted, Expensive(krebsonsecurity.com)
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by gedrap 10y ago
>>> It has NOTHING to do with the user experience of the product, nothing to do with the quality of the tech. Good UX is a bonus, can be useful for growth, competing with other products once the content is on a similar level, etc.
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If you don’t pay attention, data can drive you off a cliff(yanirseroussi.com)
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by gedrap 10y ago
Thanks for a great answer! Similar threads keep popping up quite often here and I can see why. It probably seems romantic and all that to beat the machines, beat the armies of PhDs and make some real cash. But for a retail trader, it probab
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by gedrap 10y ago
>>> If you are so much into having a remote team, then why would you discriminate against location right? Well, minimizing the cost of running business is very reasonable, as long as it's fair to the employees which is subject
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by gedrap 10y ago
>>> And the primary reason is that one loses more in a single trade than what one probably earned in 5 or more trades. This is the key. Once in a while, on the internets, I see people who say that they developed a strategy that can

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