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by kfor 1y ago
As well as many of the key innovations for OLEDs (patents they later sold to LG)
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by kfor 2y ago
I like Vega-Lite: https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/ It’s built by folks from the same lab as D3, but designed as “a higher-level visual specification language on top of D3” [ https://vega.github.io/vega&
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by kfor 3y ago
They do mention covariates in section 6.1 - specifically how this method doesn’t support them but ideas on how they could in the future such as via stacking: > In this work, we have focused on univariate time series forecasting since it
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by kfor 3y ago
Thanks for this! I've been going crazy for months that Twitter threads and replies are totally broken if you are logged out (which I always am since deleting my account in December). And now Nitter has led me to LibRedirect[1] which no
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by kfor 3y ago
Lots of great suggestions here, but one I haven't seen is providing deep links. Let users share the exact state of their dashboard with others, ideally without requiring some convoluted system of logging in and sharing things. We imple
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by kfor 3y ago
Do you worry that you risk introducing bias into your interview process with this sort of unstructured questioning? There is quite a bit of research [1] demonstrating that structured and standardized interviews across candidates are one of
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by kfor 4y ago
Thanks, I’ll give it a shot sometime and share whatever I figure out
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by kfor 4y ago
When I looked into it a couple years ago, it was possible to configure nbdev to use e.g. GitLab instead of GitHub for those of us who can't use GitHub for whatever reason. Is this still possible with the rewrite? Any major things we&#x
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by kfor 5y ago
I highly recommend How to Lie with Statistics (1954) to learn more about these sorts of misleading stats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Lie_with_Statistics
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by kfor 5y ago
Awesome book, Ravin! I’m waiting for my physical copy to arrive (should be here tomorrow!) before really diving in, but what I’ve skimmed in the digital copy so far is great. Btw I’ve been using PyMC2 since 2010 and contracted a bit with Py
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by kfor 5y ago
And it’s not just that the wheel well needs to be in front of the passengers, but also the front crumple zone is very important to passenger safety in many of the most common crash scenarios.
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Binder.pangeo.io shut down due to crypto mining(github.com)
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by kfor 5y ago
It’s out of date at this point, but I plotted the Global Health Security Index against covid death rates back in November if you’d like to get a sense of the relationship: https://twitter.com/kforeman/status/133103
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by kfor 8y ago
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation | Software Engineer | healthdata.org | Seattle, WA | Full-time | ONSITE Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation | Statistical Modeler | healthdata.org | Seattle, WA | Full-time | ONSITE Instit
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by kfor 9y ago
For those interested in global health, we've tried to collate as much data as possible at http://ghdx.healthdata.org/ (disclosure: I'm the director of data science at IHME, which hosts this). Note that most of thi
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by kfor 10y ago
I'm not an iOS dev but as a Seattleite I really appreciate your work - thanks!
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by kfor 11y ago
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation | Seattle, WA Data Scientists / Software Architects / DBAs / Javascript Developers http://www.healthdata.org/get-involved/careers IHME is 250 person independen
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by kfor 11y ago
Agreed. I would use latex for everything but I need to work with collaborators who are only used to writing in Word with track changes. Something that would allow me to write in latex then still share for editing with less tech savvy people
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by kfor 11y ago
Creator of GBD Compare here, funny to see it on HN! Worlds collide.
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by kfor 11y ago
Disclosure: I created GBD Compare (the website Gates tangentially mentions in his book review) as part of my masters work in 2011.
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The Brilliant Doctor Behind My Favorite Obscure Website(gatesnotes.com)
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by kfor 11y ago
I think this is actually a benefit for consumers, but this just seems like an invitation to an antitrust suit.
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by kfor 11y ago
I wonder how Nvidia building their own machines goes over with the many, many third party partners building similar rigs. On the Supercomputing 2014 showroom floor it seemed like half the booths were selling something like this and were cov
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by kfor 11y ago
Exactly. Maybe it's because the top 20 stuck around in YC long enough to be badgered by Paul Graham into getting a .com? That said, I don't disagree with him on .com, I just don't think this particular factoid adds anything t
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by kfor 11y ago
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation | Seattle, WA Data Scientist / Simulations and Forecasting Researcher http://bit.ly/ihme-hn IHME is 250 person independent research institute affiliated with the University o
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by kfor 11y ago
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (UW) | Seattle, WA | Developers, Data Scientists, Research Fellows Tired of spending your time trying to trick people into clicking on ads and buying things they don't need? Put your big
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by kfor 11y ago
Pandas were planted by creationists to instill doubt in evolution.
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Shutting Down Social Photo Download(marteydodoo.com)
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by kfor 11y ago
I head up the scientific computing team at IHME (the institute the article talks about), happy to answer questions. I started out doing a fellowship [0] there, it was a great first job. [0] http://www.healthdata.org/get-invo
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by kfor 12y ago
I don't use Spotify so I was unaware of that - really interesting (and clever/dastardly).

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