jboggan

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   by jboggan 14y ago

   Tessellated dragon skin fairing . . . just think about it.
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   by jboggan 14y ago

   Thanks, I'm trying to find relevant ways to get that experience and working on some more sample code as well. What would you consider an "entry level" data science job?
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   by jboggan 14y ago

   This is going to change the motorcycle industry. Most of the (very expensive OEM) plastic pieces on the bike are small enough to be replicated within the scale of the Replicator 2, and those that are could easily be segmented into printabl
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   by jboggan 14y ago

   I've found that a lot of companies are looking for data scientists but many of them have very different ideas of what that means. This makes for some interesting interviews. I recently moved to SF and am currently interviewing for data sci
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   by jboggan 14y ago

   No, it's cool that you got it up. I thought it was really neat from a visualization standpoint. You probably just submitted at a more fortunate time of day.
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   by jboggan 14y ago

   Glad to see this article is up on the front page. I submitted it two days ago and it never got traction. Question about article submissions - in the past when I've submitted a duplicate article it takes me to that HN posting instead. What
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   by jboggan 14y ago

   I have always told myself that ending my days on another planet will be an absolute definition of success for myself no matter what else I don't manage to accomplish. It's a sufficient but not necessary condition. In ten years I hope to b
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   Odd Things Happen When You Chop Up Cities(npr.org)

   3 points by jboggan 14y ago|0 comments
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   by jboggan 14y ago

   I'm afraid even as a new addition to the Bay Area I'm sitting at the intersection of these two. My MacBook Air rides in a repurposed burlap case made from a Guatemalan coffee sack, I hardly eat anything but organic meat and cream from Bi-R
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    by jboggan 14y ago

    I think the increase in rental prices is going to continue for quite awhile. My recent experience moving to SF and trying to find a place was incredible. I was just looking for sublets, but most people that I got to personally meet told m
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    by jboggan 14y ago

    Petroleum is hiring.
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    by jboggan 14y ago

    It's interesting to read this list of attributes after reading the Ventakesh Rao series "Entrepreneurs are the New Labor": http://www.forbes.com/sites/venkateshrao/2012/09/03/entrepre... In some ways the aqui-hire pathway is mentally supp
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    How Rich People Think Differently(finance.yahoo.com)

    4 points by jboggan 14y ago|1 comments
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    by jboggan 14y ago

    There's no checkbox on your hiring page for "thinks about graph algorithms and graph analysis in Dolores Park on a Saturday" or Perl or R. I'm interested but I'm not sure I'd land in the right pile checking off the languages you have liste
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    by jboggan 14y ago

    I really think that DDT was needlessly discarded as a vector extermination agent. Actual research (instead of literary hyperbole) suggests that the effect on bird eggs and humans was not as severe as once supposed. How many have died of m
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    by jboggan 14y ago

    I think video games can become extremely addicting to a certain mental/psychological cross-section that is highly represented on Hacker News. While most drugs have a cycle of reward and withdrawal video games have that in very small sustai
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    by jboggan 14y ago

    Jorge Cham nailed this phenomenon: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1174
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    by jboggan 14y ago

    This is a fantastic blog post and it needed to come from someone as accomplished as Tao. The cult of genius can be very caustic to young minds, especially in mathematics. I used to do some rather stupid things out of a combined sense of pr
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    by jboggan 14y ago

    Weird. I got heavy into algebra, algebraic topology, and graph theory early on and never cared a whit for analysis. I eat like a typewriter. In my home state of Georgia the two major public universities are very lopsided in their math dep
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    by jboggan 14y ago

    I understand this sentiment. e e cummings and James Joyce might be interesting counter-examples, but then again they were not tech writers. I suppose that I mean incisive and beautiful prose will keep me coming back and paying attention t
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    by jboggan 14y ago

    "These women and men have come together to do brutal violence to the English language, to leave the spoken and written word bloodied and victimized on a cold cement floor, wishing for the sweet relief of death." I will read anything this au
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    by jboggan 14y ago

    Transcriptic ( https://www.transcriptic.com/about/jobs ) is definitely another company to watch in that space, and they are hiring. Hopefully the legions of unemployed bioinformatics and cast-off pharmaceutical researchers will take their
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    by jboggan 14y ago

    Can I give you all my karma for pointing out this oversight? I thought my email was visible, fixed and thanks!
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    by jboggan 14y ago

    I'm doing it right now as I'm applying to and interviewing with startups and more established companies in SF/SV. Even though my domain seems to be in really high demand right now (data science/network analysis) I'm trying to be gracious,
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    by jboggan 14y ago

    "What we do:" - that was a really good laugh. You guys should honestly make that into a shirt. Good luck!
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    by jboggan 14y ago

    And the Borgias helped the Renaissance flourish.
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    by jboggan 14y ago

    I visited over there in April - it was a very cool workplace full of interesting and motivated people. Though they weren't that happy when I was playing around with their app and found a bug related to daylight savings on a Friday afternoo
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    by jboggan 14y ago

    I ran through installing RVM yesterday on a new Mac and it wasn't a problem - 10.8, XCode 4.4, homebrew (okay, you have to install XCode CLI and Quartz separately), but it ran right through it. Then again, this is one combination that I kn
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    Space Shuttle Workers Struggle to Find Jobs(cbsnews.com)

    3 points by jboggan 14y ago|0 comments
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    by jboggan 14y ago

    Sometimes I look at other people's resumes and I see their finished PhD, their publications, their prestigious postdoc positions - and I feel a pang of jealousy. I feel like I have little to show for my unfulfilled years of toil in a docto