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by geomark 11y ago
Sounds like a reason/opportunity to locate outside the U.S.
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by geomark 11y ago
What's going on here? 23andme are not allowed to report on the full data but Enlis is? Or is Enlis flying under the radar until they get squelched by the FDA?
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by geomark 11y ago
Some people are making a lot of noise about making the distinction, like the guys teaching data science at John Hopkins. It's because both are important but they are distinctly different activities.
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by geomark 11y ago
More to the point is how "replication" is defined. This quote covers it: "Note that the 36% figure comes from a definition of replication that mimics the definition used by regulatory agencies: results are considered replicat
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by geomark 11y ago
Reproduce: take the published data and methods, rerun the analysis, see if you get the same results. No new experiment. Replicate: perform a new experiment with new subjects, apply the same methods, see if you get statistically equivalent r
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by geomark 11y ago
Let's be clear on the differencen between reproducible and replication . Reproducible is when an experiment's data and methods are published and other researchers can reproduce the same statistical results. An experiment that h
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by geomark 11y ago
My misunderstanding. It sounded to me like the story was trying to make him larger than life by throwing in the title of Buddhist priest. I wasn't aware of that title - I thought they were implying he is monk. That's what I was re
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by geomark 11y ago
I am not well informed about Japanese Buddhism. My knowledge of Buddhism comes from having been a monk myself, ordained in the Theravada tradition. I do know about these "priests" having wives. That means they are not monks since
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by geomark 11y ago
What is a Buddhist "priest"? It certainly isn't a Buddhist monk. While Buddhism may be a big part of his life, using some made up title like that seems like just an attempt to make him seem somehow larger.
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by geomark 11y ago
I am originally from the U.S. and when I came to Thailand I was initially taken aback by the sight of eggs being left out for days or weeks at a time. But they don't spoil. I later learned about the washing affect. Also, it's pred
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by geomark 11y ago
What he says about the age of the egg is contrary to my experience. I usually get fresh eggs from the farmers market and they peel easier than the store bought eggs which aren't as fresh. Maybe it's the fact that the eggs here are
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by geomark 11y ago
Here in Thailand the impact has been pretty severe in the south. Very unhealthy air quality, a number of deaths of elderly from respiratory failure, many dozens of flights cancelled to Phuket and Krabi. Seems a lot worse this year than many
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by geomark 11y ago
Somebody who's been there. It is often just as bad (worse even?) on the hardware side where I worked for a while. Although I should add there was also a lot of corruption of sorts, the kind where those trying to build their little empi
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by geomark 11y ago
"...they were mostly ripoffs..." Maybe my experience is not the norm. I've heard a lot of bad things about schools like Phoenix and DeVry. But I went to DeVry (quite a few years ago) and got a 2-year tech diploma. They also o
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by geomark 11y ago
That's a problem even in B2B businesses. I used to run a design center where we often contracted out teams to work onsite at a client's place. Clients sometimes offered one of my guys to go direct, even though there was a big nast
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by geomark 11y ago
I've completed a bunch of Coursera courses. Quality really varies. Even within the 9 course Data Science specialization [1] track some courses were rather poor while the rest were very good. I'm currently taking the #5 rated cou
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by geomark 11y ago
That's a very good write up. The dichotomy he describes between motivation and discipline is something that gradually came to me during my career. And some of the techniques he describes for "tricking" yourself into developin
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by geomark 11y ago
I see what you did there.
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by geomark 11y ago
I think that's a pretty good definition. To define it for myself I took the Data Science Specialization from Coursera https://www.coursera.org/specializations/jhudatascience . There's a fair amount of stats an
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by geomark 11y ago
Indeed. I use dplyr frequently.
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by geomark 11y ago
Recently started using rvest for web scraping. Sweet bejeezus that's a pleasure. I would've never considered R for scraping before. It was always Python with BeautifulSoup.
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by geomark 11y ago
I'm not qualified to comment on how good or bad a language R is. But it is maddening how package developers don't follow some convention for naming functions. I load a package that I haven't used recently and I know the funct
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by geomark 11y ago
I'm currently using both R and Python, having previously only used Python. At first I didn't like R for general purpose data munging and web scraping. That was before I discovered a few R packages that make it a breeze. And now it
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by geomark 11y ago
One example in the section titled "Split into training and testing sets" would be to use the createDataPartition() function from the caret package for creating training and testing sets. He says "In R, there are packages to m
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by geomark 11y ago
It's already here. See http://www.predpol.com/
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by geomark 11y ago
You got down voted for the sarcasm I presume. But in truth it would make your character stronger. However, it might have some downsides.
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by geomark 11y ago
This is agricultural runoff they are desalinating, right? I would've thought it is so full of other stuff that it would be too contaminated to extract salt. But I don't know anything about the refining process so maybe it is feasi
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by geomark 11y ago
They say they turn the salt into useable products. Such as?
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by geomark 11y ago
Yep. And some are dumb enough to announce they are doing it, http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/714432/single-gatewa...
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by geomark 11y ago
Already in proposal stage in many places. My current home, Thailand, just announced plans for their own version. I am not amused. However, hilarity has already ensued. The gov here is so incompetent that they couldn't even make an anno

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