grayclhn

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by grayclhn 11y ago
Dude, that's exactly what you're doing here. But your anger towards the author is a lot more mysterious than the author's anger towards her dead husband. If you're wondering why someone would write an angry comment on th
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by grayclhn 11y ago
"Review" in the context of your link means "referee." I don't think that most researchers would view writing a review article for Nature as "volunteer work" because the career benefits of the publication a
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by grayclhn 11y ago
Don't be too harsh, you don't know what the commenter's going through either. :)
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by grayclhn 11y ago
I'd strongly encourage anyone who is upset or intrigued by this post to attend an open Al-Anon meeting[1]. (AA is for alcoholics, Al-Anon is for friends and family members of alcoholics. "Open" meetings mean that anyone curio
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by grayclhn 11y ago
A more charitable interpretation is that she is sharing her experience because she felt like no one she spoke to had a similar experience and wants to reach out to other people in the same boat. She writes the first part ("no member’s
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by grayclhn 11y ago
Just to add to that (for GP, obviously): if "drawing" seems too abstract or calculating the area on the fly seems too hard, you can get similar intuition by generating a wiggly/crinkly sequence (technical term) of numbers on
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by grayclhn 11y ago
I didn't downvote you, but this struck me as quite a bit more shameless than most of the shameless plugs here. :) But the downvotes might have been worth it. I'm sure some people clicked through.
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by grayclhn 11y ago
I haven't seen anyone mention it here, so a little off topic, but if you have to make lots of presentations with slides Emacs's org mode pdf export [1] (via LaTeX beamer) is a godsend. Easily the fastest way to put together slides
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by grayclhn 11y ago
The question I'm more interested in: when you worked there as an intern, did you suck? (If you didn't, maybe the interview worked...) Apologies in advance for the bluntness, and don't feel like you need to answer.
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by grayclhn 11y ago
To be fair, from the description of the job it looks like language specific skills matter.
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by grayclhn 11y ago
I think you'll find that, once other services exist that can trash your house, we'll complain about them too.
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by grayclhn 11y ago
> I never looked at Oxford people with the same eyes again after reading Giordano Bruno's works and about how the professors in there treated him. Dude, you are going to be bummed when you find out how the rest of humanity has tre
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by grayclhn 11y ago
No, the rules for adding and subtracting (etc...) random variables are pretty different than what's at the link.
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by grayclhn 12y ago
Do you spend time actively studying Physics, or do you just expect to be gifted with this knowledge?
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by grayclhn 12y ago
In your example, "I washed the dishes once or twice" is not going to impress the interviewer and is quite revealing. (This is true for the more general version of your anecdote as well.)
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by grayclhn 12y ago
If you're a macroeconomist, the default is Matlab. I'm not sure which is worse.
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by grayclhn 12y ago
Thanks for sharing that. Much more informative than my speculation :)
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by grayclhn 12y ago
glmnet, plyr, knitr, and ggplot2 were all developed by academic statisticians (some as grad students who have subsequently moved out of academia.) They didn't choose R because of the reasons you listed, but because it was already popul
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by grayclhn 12y ago
R's library support predates your timeline.
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by grayclhn 12y ago
1) compatibility with S-Plus, which was widely used by statisticians for long before R 2) developing new statistical methods and other innovations (knitr, etc) is much easier in R or S-Plus than SAS, SPSS, etc. So R's improved a lot fa
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by grayclhn 12y ago
Dummy target files don't work if the files are deleted elsewhere --- i.e. not as part of the make pipeline.
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by grayclhn 12y ago
Maybe, but extending it to an M:1 1:N approach is 95% of the general M:N solution.
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by grayclhn 12y ago
Many languages are slow. (Or, more concretely, many languages have only slow implementations.) If C or Fortran interfaces are easy, speeding up the language shouldn't necessarily be a priority. But that doesn't make the language i
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by grayclhn 12y ago
"R is slow" refers to the main implementation of the language --- to code written in R --- and is completely fair. The packages you're talking about are mostly written in C or C++ with nice R interfaces. So R as a statistica
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by grayclhn 12y ago
It's a bit like saying that having data on 1960 is useful.
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by grayclhn 12y ago
Steep changes in the slope can introduce visual distortions when you compare the gap between two series. If you download and plot the difference, I think you'll see less of a change.
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by grayclhn 12y ago
Just to plug ALFRED, you can get the numbers as they were released in real time as well: Unemployment: http://alfred.stlouisfed.org/series?seid=UNRATE U6: http://alfred.stlouisfed.org/series?seid=U6RATE One
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by grayclhn 12y ago
No, subjectively superior is enough.
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by grayclhn 12y ago
Not the parent, but I'd recommend subject/language meetups, conferences, etc. mailing lists, and other things in that vein. Basically, wherever people that are highly accomplished and talented in the area that you [want to] work i
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by grayclhn 12y ago
Fair enough. I agree that it's at best lazy rhetorical shorthand here and I can see why it could be grating.

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