johncoogan

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Hip-Hop Word Count: 50,000 rap songs analyzed.(newyorker.com)
1 points by johncoogan 14y ago|0 comments
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Jeffrey Hammerbacher, Chief Scientist at Cloudera on Big Data(charlierose.com)
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Reporters Need to Understand Advertising. But Should They Be Making It?(battellemedia.com)
1 points by johncoogan 14y ago|0 comments
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by johncoogan 14y ago
Looks awesome, always love seeing my favorite tools wrapped up in new ways. Thanks a lot for posting. Quick note, since PyPi doesn't seem to parse markdown, the more information link to GitHub is malformed. I believe the plain link will hyp
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by johncoogan 14y ago
As always, the regional heat map is useless... http://jonmillward.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/porn-... Luckily there is a relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1138/
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by johncoogan 14y ago
This is very cool, tons of potential for both fun and meaningful use here, but I do have a bone to pick. The variety of sources seems extremely minimal and the majority of the data appears to be coming from Amazon. When I sampled the data (
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AngularUI Team Releases (New) UI Bootstrap for AngularJS(angular-ui.github.com)
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by johncoogan 14y ago
Pretty sure it's because Gumroad uses Stripe. Heard that from a rival CEO though... So don't quote me.
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Calculating Conditional Probability via MapReduce(arunxjacob.blogspot.com)
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by johncoogan 14y ago
I believe TOS-DR is working on it... http://tos-dr.info/ Seems like it hasn't been updated in a while though...
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by johncoogan 14y ago
Introduction to Information Retrieval by Manning, Raghavan, & Schutze is my favorite. Available here: http://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/
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The Jester Forces School-Massacre Twitter Feed Offline(news.yahoo.com)
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by johncoogan 14y ago
I think the value of TopoJSON is a bit understated here. MBostock reported some pretty awesome results about a month ago. "With TopoJSON, reduced 2.2M shapefile to 628K (-72%, 176K gzipped)!" https://twitter.com/mbostock/status/26954833066
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by johncoogan 14y ago
As someone who was born more than a decade after this was written, I can't say I understand the context in which this was written. Would anyone care to elaborate for me? Specifically, I'd like to know what opinions about Fortran, Basic, Cob
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by johncoogan 14y ago
My recent projects have been machine learning & data visualization focused: Python * Numpy * Scipy * Pandas * NetworkX * Flask MongoDB Javascript * jQuery * D3.js Twitter Bootstrap
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by johncoogan 14y ago
What about Go? http://golang.org/ This is a bit off topic but I'm in a similar situation and wanted to know if anyone had any thoughts on Go. It seems to strike a balance on everything except for current market demand (which could change
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by johncoogan 14y ago
D3 uses a combination of HTML, SVG and CSS. HTML5 is a broader standard than SVG, so the answer is D3 uses both. HTML5 added SVG as a new feature (replacing generic <object> tags).
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by johncoogan 14y ago
Really enjoyed your post. I'm in a similar situation and have been reading up on how to learn the formal CS concepts necessary to ace a technical interview and thought I'd share what I've found. This answer on Quora summarizes the general t
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Historical Tour of Silicon Valley with pictures(scaruffi.com)
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by johncoogan 14y ago
This is a really great program from an excellent team. Despite going to a great high-school (IMHO), no teachers new CS, so we never had the option to take any CS what-so-ever. It would have been awesome to have something like this to bridge
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by johncoogan 14y ago
Congrats to everyone at both companies!
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by johncoogan 14y ago
Instantly searched to see if someone posted this... so glad you did.
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by johncoogan 14y ago
Of course, but the real question is why did he choose not to be recorded?
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by johncoogan 14y ago
403 lol jk but seriously.
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by johncoogan 14y ago
Skynet is coming online.
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by johncoogan 14y ago
Pivot to a PaaS with a focus on uptime?
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by johncoogan 14y ago
This is a really simple hack to browse links in a Twitter feed the same way Stumble Upon works. Comments on the code are much appreciated since I know there are several different ways to do this. https://github.com/JohnCoogan/NewLinkForMe
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ShowHN: Stumble Upon Links in Your Twitter Feed (Open Source)(newlinkfor.me)
3 points by johncoogan 14y ago|1 comments
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by johncoogan 14y ago
Ping me at johncoogan@me.com - I'll do whatever I can to help. Huge proponent of learning on the job and effort over experience.
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by johncoogan 14y ago
I personally don't know much about bioinformatics but what I do know about potential commercial applications has come from hearing speakers from Singularity University discuss what they are working on. You might be interested in looking int

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