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by gmtx725 6y ago
Exactly. There is no such thing as 'objective' journalism, even if the facts of a piece of reporting are correct, there is still an enormous degree of subjectivity in choosing what to report in the first place or what to emphasise
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by gmtx725 6y ago
explanation is important but its unreasonable to expect someone to do it on the spot in a time-pressured environment. Often you have to go away and think about it alone in order to come up with a good way of explaining things to others.
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by gmtx725 6y ago
Completely agree. Being mentally drained and physically drained are completely different things. I personally think we need a balance of physical and mental pursuits in our lives to be truly healthy. Anecdotally, my insomnia has improved ma
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by gmtx725 6y ago
Jeez I wish I could survive on 6 hours sleep. I need at least 8 to feel fully refreshed. I can survive on 7 for a day or two but after that it catches up with me in a bad way. Any less than 7 and I feel like absolute death.
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by gmtx725 6y ago
yep- far too many libraries. Matplotlib, seaborn, bokeh, plotly, altair, ggplot2, vega, now this. And each library covers about 90% of your use cases on its own but you're constantly having to switch to another one for the remaining 10
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by gmtx725 6y ago
Companies outsourcing office costs to employees Young staff having no opportunities to learn from senior colleagues or develop Those without spare rooms or a home environment conducive to wfh seeing their productivity nosedive Social isolat
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by gmtx725 6y ago
overly reductive evolutionary psychology 101 but ok...
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by gmtx725 6y ago
even 12 midnight is ambiguous- for example is 12 midnight on January 1st the start of the new year? Or is it at the end of new year's day?
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by gmtx725 6y ago
The social sciences don't work like the hard sciences though. And the primary reason for this is because humans, unlike say, atoms or molecules, are not independent objects. They are subjects with agency and can react and change their
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by gmtx725 6y ago
My office is a wework so it's literally like 1000 times better than my shitty apartment. I just have to worry about so much less at the office. Free barista coffee, washing up and cleaning done for you so you're not messing up you
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by gmtx725 6y ago
I feel like you're being a bit precious. If someone asks you 'hey, can you help out with this', and you respond 'no not right now i'm busy', that knocks you out for half an hour to the rest of the day ??? FWIW
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by gmtx725 6y ago
It's just that, a request. You are not obliged to help people straight away if you are deeply engaged in something. In fact most people are polite enough to not ask if it's clear you are busy. But if you're not, having access
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by gmtx725 6y ago
Maybe, i'm not convinced. In my experience social interactions in shared spaces like kitchens etc tend to be dominated by general niceties and non-work chat. Which is fine, obviously, but I don't think you get the benefits as when
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by gmtx725 6y ago
> t doesn't seem to work for me as I tend to focus on the music I get what you mean, I find you have to pick the right sort of music. For me minimal techno is perfect, because it's energetic so doesn't relax me too much li
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by gmtx725 6y ago
Does it need to be completely quiet? I find I work best with low-level relaxing ambient background noise. Find it much easier to work in e.g. a coffee shop than a library
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by gmtx725 6y ago
Does that not just create silos though. So many things require cross-team working. If each team has its own private space then information bottlenecks will occur
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Ask HN: Why are you against open plan offices?
54 points by gmtx725 6y ago|149 comments
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by gmtx725 6y ago
i love new order but i thought they were well-know for having bad live shows? Stuff going wrong, bum notes, lousy singing etc
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by gmtx725 6y ago
Fair enough, it obviously works for you. But on just a couple of points: > The difference is, with your own space you can do deep work on your own terms. No longer is your train of thought constantly interrupted What's wrong with he
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by gmtx725 6y ago
But what about the serendipitous things, like the unplanned conversations that lead to fruitful ideas, or the guy you're not directly speaking to overhearing your conversation and solving your problem for you? It seems to me you would
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by gmtx725 6y ago
out of interest, what are some of the unconventional approaches to personal growth you adopted?
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by gmtx725 6y ago
This is something I see people railing against all the time here. I'm young and new to the industry so I've never experienced anything other than open-plan offices. So maybe I just don't know what I'm missing out on but
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by gmtx725 6y ago
> Quite means something different. In British "quite good" is similar to "particularly good" Not really, it means something more like 'fairly' or 'reasonably' good.
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by gmtx725 6y ago
1. Body language- it's important to be able to see people's facial expressions etc to gauge their reactions to things you're saying 2. Avoiding interrupting one another- being able to see other people's faces means you c
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by gmtx725 7y ago
I always wonder how much of a self-fulfilling prophecy it is, especially now the yield-curve-inversions-precede-recessions thing is so well known, i.e. people see the yield curve inverts and therefore believe the market will drop, therefore
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by gmtx725 7y ago
Then just use a GBM or some simple linear classifier
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by gmtx725 7y ago
why would you use a neural net on a dataset with only 700 samples, smh
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by gmtx725 7y ago
What even is 'optimal' though. As far as evolution is concerned, we are surviving to pass our genes on to the next generation, so we already are 'optimal'. Going any further than that is just bringing in social and cultu
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Ask HN: How can I transition Data Scientist – Engineer?
1 points by gmtx725 7y ago|1 comments