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by joelgrus 11y ago
Damage or no damage, that gap really bugs my inner obsessive-compulsive.
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Reverse Engineering Ahmed Mohamed’s Clock… and Ourselves(blogs.artvoice.com)
6 points by joelgrus 11y ago|0 comments
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by joelgrus 11y ago
No SICP?
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by joelgrus 11y ago
Yeah, as someone who knows a fair amount of JS but almost nothing about React, that todomvc implementation does not particularly scream "this is the framework you want to learn".
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Haskell-Style Fibonacci in Python(joelgrus.com)
1 points by joelgrus 11y ago|0 comments
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by joelgrus 11y ago
These Norvig notebooks are reliably epic.
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by joelgrus 11y ago
And if you leave the company they actually cost you money , since you have to pay out of pocket to exercise them (for stock that may end up never being sellable) and you also have to pay AMT taxes based on the latest company valuation.
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On the Mathematics of Spot It(joelgrus.com)
9 points by joelgrus 11y ago|0 comments
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by joelgrus 11y ago
I mean, I feel like I'm conveying my exact preferences pretty clearly ("let Yarvin speak"), the question is more how much I want to antagonize the people who got him uninvited.
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by joelgrus 11y ago
Do those who support Curtis appearing at the talk refrain from posting out of fear of career repercussion? No and yes. I have been pretty vocal about it on Twitter: https://twitter.com/joelgrus/status/6064744325
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by joelgrus 11y ago
I personally never had the motivation to work hard in college. I always assumed this was a personal flaw. Years later, after I'd completed a large number of Coursera courses, I realized it was because college was boring . (edited to
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by joelgrus 11y ago
I have no non-Coursera CS training, so I use it as the "CS training" part of my resume. (I also have relevant work experience and a math degree.) I would be comfortable hiring someone entry-level most of whose relevant experien
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by joelgrus 11y ago
Honestly, if someone's resume tells me they took (say) the Coursera Natural Language Processing course, never in a million years would it occur to me to ask to see the certificate, any more than I'd ask to see their transcript to
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Obama Urges Lawmakers to Pass NSA Surveillance Bill(wsj.com)
14 points by joelgrus 11y ago|3 comments
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Haskell Programming(haskellbook.com)
70 points by joelgrus 11y ago|22 comments
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by joelgrus 11y ago
I may be a bit biased, but my book "Data Science from Scratch" is a good choice. :) http://joelgrus.com/2015/04/26/data-science-from-scratch-fir...
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by joelgrus 11y ago
Wow, this really sucks for whoever has the phone number that I had in 1991.
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by joelgrus 11y ago
Thank you! I worked very hard to make the book's code clear and beautiful.
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by joelgrus 11y ago
AUTHD (And I didn't know that until you asked, I'm going to edit the blog post.)
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by joelgrus 11y ago
I attend a lot of data events in Seattle. Especially Data Science Happy Hours.
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by joelgrus 11y ago
I know the book, I wrote it! Most of the math is vector space arithmetic. There are a few sections that use matrix multiplication. The probability and stats is stuff like understanding probability distributions and Bayes's Theorem. (
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Data Science from Scratch: First Principles with Python(joelgrus.com)
237 points by joelgrus 11y ago|41 comments
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by joelgrus 11y ago
So I live in downtown Seattle, and there are not a ton of residents here. For one thing, there are no schools in downtown Seattle, and so almost no one with kids wants to live downtown. And while I wouldn't characterize it as &quot
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by joelgrus 12y ago
Yeah, I left a startup last year and exercised my options on the way out. The check I had to write for the strike prices was a lot bigger than the AMT hit. (Which is not to say that that's always the case, but it definitely was for m
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by joelgrus 12y ago
"We won! A free tiger! But now we face the really hard part: making sure the tiger doesn't eat us."
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by joelgrus 12y ago
"Developing a meaningful philosophy of life" is a life-long pursuit, and to that end the four years I spent in college were way less influential than the years since have been.
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by joelgrus 12y ago
I would take the theoretical foundations course, but that's mostly because it sounds more interesting to me. Probably the networks class is more likely to be useful, though.
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by joelgrus 12y ago
My Code Jam solutions always shared a lot of code -- all the boilerplate for reading inputs, parsing integers, iterating over test cases, and writing out results. Because of that, it seems like Code Jam is an artificially easy test case f
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by joelgrus 12y ago
Here's a Python version I quickly threw together, for people like me who don't know Eiffel: https://gist.github.com/joelgrus/9dc47ebb22243fe990e5 I think it's right. :)
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by joelgrus 12y ago
I don't see anywhere the Ockham's Razor explanation that bad candidates fudge their resumes in order to make themselves look like good candidates.

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