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by johnhess 12y ago
While the article makes (and backs up) that unremarkable claim, there's some real meat further in. > You might think high-paying jobs at these agencies require special skills. Not so. At the OCC, secretaries make on average $79,182
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by johnhess 13y ago
This pattern shows up in a great many industries. And not always in favor of engineers. Almost always, the divide is right along the profit center/cost center line. In finance, traders are revered and engineers are their support staf
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Scientific research shows investors prefer pitches given by (attractive) men(businessinsider.com)
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by johnhess 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote or Chicago, Boston or Austin (Data Science) I turn raw data into answers for your business. If you have the data, great. If not, I'll instrument your business to collect that data. --------------- PAST PROJECTS:
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by johnhess 13y ago
What's really chilling about this is: >Federal regulations prohibit U.S. businesses from offering services to countries subject to economic sanctions -- a list that includes Cuba, Iran, Syria and Sudan On this message board, I can i
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by johnhess 13y ago
That's tough. Not because the software isn't out there (see open edX), but because of the content. The big attraction is that this is content from premier universities. If you open Coursentenza, how could students (or employers
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by johnhess 13y ago
This gives you a good idea of how difficult it is to comply with regulations in the US. And, conversely, how (in)effective regulations which don't respect the underlying technological capabilities can be. A few things to think about:
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by johnhess 13y ago
I suppose they could, but they'd fall into the copyright netherworld in most every case. Some faculty have chosen to release MOOCs under creative commons and other similarly permissive licenses, but those are few and far between.
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by johnhess 13y ago
Actually, edX did something like this a while ago too. edX is, however, working on opening its doors to anyone who wants to learn: > Tena Herlihy, edX’s general counsel, said the company has since last May worked with the U.S. State Depa
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by johnhess 13y ago
As an engineer it's interesting to be on the receiving end of software replacing a bit of what you do. I suppose the market will always incentivize replacing expensive labor (high wages for developers cut both ways). Granted, there ha
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by johnhess 13y ago
There are. edX has an authoring tool called Studio. It's part of their open source platform, usually hosted right alongside their LMS, and pretty straightforward for non-technical users. Of course, the farther you go into building c
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by johnhess 13y ago
I'm always amazed by how confidently people can propose a hiring "rule" or even guideline. The article pays lip service to the fact "There's no way to A/B test hiring decisions" but then goes on to describ
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by johnhess 13y ago
What kind of list did I just get myself on for that little visit?
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by johnhess 14y ago
The PC wasn't better than the mainframe at everything. It didn't have to be. That's how disruption works. Many good instructors can't draw a line between KA (or any other disruptive solution) and the absolute best, gold standard, scientif
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by johnhess 14y ago
My bank used to do this, and I never quite understood why. An attacker could easily mimic the site's behavior. 1. Attacker prompts me (or my grandmother) for login name. 2. Attacker gives login name to bank. 3. Bank serves proper image to
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by johnhess 14y ago
Seeing stealth aircraft isn't about resolution. The key to seeing something with radar is signal-to-noise ratio. From the article: "it becomes possible to measure the properties of individual raindrops greater than 0.5mm in diameter due t
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by johnhess 14y ago
10:45 put on a shirt (but not pants) for skype video chat with client.
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by johnhess 14y ago
I don't think that's a debunking. yummyfajitas covered the plotting tool, but that's only the start. Clearly, the metric is far from perfect -- you can tell that without his analysis. Year-over-year variation is high, indicating that ther
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by johnhess 14y ago
try to find a more obvious thing than the little "inactive plugin" at the bottom... just ignore "click enable" stuff these days, and wait for prompts (like up near the address bar). hit people upside the face with it
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by johnhess 15y ago
It depends on what you're into and exactly what you think your prospects are for each. I'm graduating from a different MIT program in June (SM 16/SM TPP), and I absolutely loved it here. If your experience is anything like mine, you'll me
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by johnhess 15y ago
"what do you aspire to bring to the world?" Yes. Yes. Yes. One thousand times, yes. If you're asking me to dedicate my waking hours to something, be clear about what that something is. Hint: It's not your corporation. I've interviewed at
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SWA: How creating value and treating people right beat watching the bottom line.(texasmonthly.com)
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by johnhess 15y ago
Looks like it might not be a new-year effect. A lot of search terms decline over the holidays. If you ignore the dip, it looks like it might be nothing at all or just a "backlog" of would-be searchers from Christmas.
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by johnhess 15y ago
http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytic... This is on the front page now, but holy crap is it beautiful. This is everything data analysis should be.
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by johnhess 15y ago
You're fluent with regressions and stats. Sounds like you're competent with the mechanics. Where you might have gaps, there are some great tools that can do your heavy lifting. But, that's only half of the battle. When you're trying to d
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by johnhess 15y ago
Anybody know how big the MIT population on HN is? SWAG (stupid wild ass guesses) welcome.