jstrebel

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by jstrebel 5y ago
Hmm, see this: https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/actearly/milestones/milestones-5y... At 6 years old, I was learning to read and write, to count and calculate. I started playing the flute. I also had my first expos
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by jstrebel 7y ago
Coming from a Big Data (Hadoop / AWS) background, I would say that SQL is a good choice for analyzing data once it is in the data warehouse, but it is not needed to get the data there. Most of the ETL code in this environment is based
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by jstrebel 8y ago
I frequently scan Quora for interesting perspectives on life. I really like to learn from the personal stories of individuals. Of course, you have to take everything with a grain of salt, as Quora is not peer-reviewed or scholarly supported
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by jstrebel 8y ago
I bought the toy robot Cozmo from Anki and now I am trying to make him see using openCV.
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by jstrebel 8y ago
I learned about S. Pinker's book "The blank slate" here on HN. It altered the way I think about humans.
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by jstrebel 8y ago
We tried to set up a small startup of 3 people with the goal of offering a service for social bot detection, reporting and (eventually) removal. The assumption was that they are an annoyance and might be a danger to the public opinion and t
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by jstrebel 8y ago
Please do not use LaTeX. If your textbook is supposed to have special layout needs, you will have a hard time with LaTeX. Tables are a real nuisance in LaTeX as well - normally you have your data in some other tool like Excel or some Jupyte
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by jstrebel 8y ago
MS OneNote as it features a nice integration with MS Outlook. You can create tasks directly in OneNote and have them automatically show up in Outlook. As my employer uses the enterprise version, I am not worried about the Cloud.
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by jstrebel 9y ago
Most real-life situations are not like that. The contingency assumes that your underlying process is random with a normal distribution. In everyday life, especially when working in teams or projects, processes are not of that kind. Other pe
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by jstrebel 9y ago
Great interview with a bit of plugging from Prof. Stonebreaker
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by jstrebel 12y ago
I would like to better understand the Qlikview Object Extension mechanism and the associated Javascript API. These extensions are highly useful for coupling Qlikview with the existing visualization frameworks like D3 etc.