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by jackmaney 10y ago
Yep, this is clearly the superior theme. The text is much more readable.
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by jackmaney 10y ago
I fail to see an actual problem with this.
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by jackmaney 10y ago
> why is atheism making people worse off? Care to put forth any evidence that this might possibly be the case?
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by jackmaney 10y ago
There are plenty of people who don't affiliate with any religion but who are not, in fact, atheists. Not that it wouldn't surprise me if atheists, as a group, were growing.
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by jackmaney 10y ago
So...how is this evidence for a social movement towards atheism? Honest question.
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by jackmaney 10y ago
> the move towards atheism Care to explain that? Atheism may be growing--in fact, Wikipedia gives an upper bound of the US atheist population at ten percent[0]--but I've never seen anything resembling what I would call an actual cul
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by jackmaney 11y ago
> There'd probably be a higher chance of someone with bad credit running off with the stock. Do you have anything resembling evidence to back up that assertion?
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by jackmaney 11y ago
Here's an idea: turn off ALL notifications by default. Make any notifications opt-in only.
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by jackmaney 11y ago
I know that an anecdote is not data, etc, etc, but I can't read that garbage. I may as well be trying to decrypt it.
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by jackmaney 11y ago
> At some point in their careers, almost every data scientist has written code to perform a series of steps, and thought, “It would be great if I could build these transformations visually rather than by writing code.” I have been in a d
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by jackmaney 11y ago
I was about to write much the same thing... Last year, I found a hard copy of my dissertation (which I defended in 2004). I skimmed through it and had absolutely no problem whatsoever understanding what I had written 11 years prior. And I&#
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by jackmaney 11y ago
Nitpick: The area should be in units of pixels^2. Other than that, this is awesome.
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by jackmaney 11y ago
Two important lessons: 1. Coworkers are coworkers and friends are friends, and never should the twain meet. 2. HR does not exist to protect you or provide you with any services. HR exists as a policy-enforcement branch of the company. Perio
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by jackmaney 11y ago
The author and I are in very different fields, but this article echoes a lot of the reasons why I left my tenure track position and ultimately ended up in industry. The final nail in the coffin was an email sent out by some middle-administr
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by jackmaney 11y ago
The author is a non-tenure track faculty member. Expressing his criticism of his university--not to mention a whole class of similar universities--is taking an enormous risk, as he could be fired (aka his contract won't be renewed) for
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by jackmaney 11y ago
> Now the writing is on the wall, humanities "uselessness" is almost unanimous. That's a shame, but maybe that causes things to change for once. The wrong perception of humanities being useless is so embedded into today&#x
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by jackmaney 11y ago
You're very welcome. And ehhh, I've been downvoted and bitched at about evangelizing pyenv before. Just thought I'd preempt that. But yes, it's an amazing piece of software. :) FYI, I've put together a bash function
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by jackmaney 11y ago
> And finally...well, I have to admit it, but I use Python like a goddamned moron in that I still don't know how to use virutalenv/venv to do proper dev isolation. I was the same way for quite a while, until I bumped into pyenv
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by jackmaney 11y ago
Yep, on Windows, Anaconda is a godsend.
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by jackmaney 11y ago
While there are certainly advantages to Anaconda, I've never encountered any troubles installing Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, or scikit-learn on any OS X or linux system. In my experience, getting GCC up and running is far more of a pain in
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by jackmaney 11y ago
I wouldn't really trust the "Python 3 Wall Of Superpowers", as it doesn't appear to be anywhere near current. The first listed example of a 3.x incompatible package is requests[1], which is not only compatible with 2.7--
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Most Cerner employees give up the right to sue--to stay eligible for merit raise(kansascity.com)
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by jackmaney 11y ago
Some of the first code I ever wrote outside of a classroom was in Mathematica to generate examples that would later fuel the results in a set of two papers (in pure mathematics).
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by jackmaney 11y ago
> doesn't MIT require that you at least include the license in any modified or redistributed code? Yep[1] (emphasis mine): > Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associ
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by jackmaney 11y ago
> Can Science Explains Everything [ cringe cringe twitch ]
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by jackmaney 11y ago
These things look neat, but wouldn't this be teaching programming at scale? The phrase "learning programming at scale" leads to the idea of someone trying to learn how to program who is also able to repeatedly enlarge the a
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by jackmaney 11y ago
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I'm glad I'm no longer in academia.
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by jackmaney 11y ago
This belongs in /r/thathappened
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by jackmaney 11y ago
That sounds almost magical. I'd almost give my left hand to have a rule system like that here.
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by jackmaney 11y ago
Exactly. One can opt out of literally any interview question by simply ending the interview.

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