laGrenouille

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by laGrenouille 2mo ago
Yes, this (as the even shorter c.colname) and the fact that you can do var= in place of assign in with_columns/agg changed my whole outlook on polars. Have been using it as my main driver for the past year.
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by laGrenouille 3mo ago
I have always stayed away from additional software for bibliography management for similar reasons that the authors cites. However, while I do not use Zotero the software, their ZoteroBib ( https://zbib.org/ ) has been a huge
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by laGrenouille 4mo ago
Great visualizations. Really enjoyed having a well-written example where mathematical proofs directly help with understanding a practical application. I wonder what would happen with this analysis if a momentum term was added to the gradien
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by laGrenouille 4mo ago
I use AA and other sites to get non-DRM, PDF versions of academic books that I (mostly) already own so I can read them when I'm away from my office. It's a classic case where people turn to pirating when the market doesn't pr
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by laGrenouille 2y ago
I have read the quoted GitHub docs page before and also found it somewhat odd. Not because it shouldn't be allowed to post public code without a LICENSE (or with a restrictive one), but because GitHub has a "Fork" button on e
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by laGrenouille 2y ago
> His fame may outlive Foch and Ludendorff, Wilson and Clemenceau. Funny to think how this has aged since 1915. Over a century later Einstein is an almost universally known figure. The others on this list are, particularly outside of Fra
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by laGrenouille 2y ago
Hotels with similar amenities are usually priced at absurdly high rates for corporate clients. The place you linked to has the equivalent of a studio apartment with no laundry machine going for over 9000 CAD for a month. AirBnB has plenty o
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by laGrenouille 4y ago
I completely agree that it's an open question about what exactly constitutes data science and what should (or at least could) be covered in a standard introduction. For me, a fairly reasonable—though certainly not definitive—set of top
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by laGrenouille 4y ago
You're thinking too narrowly about what "schema design" could mean. No, data scientists do not typically design back-end, production database systems. But defining and organizing a multi-sheet spreadsheet for manual data coll
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by laGrenouille 4y ago
These notes might be a great source for what they cover, but as a whole I find this to be a good example of what is currently wrong with data science education. While the syllabus has bullet points that include "1. data collection&quot
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by laGrenouille 4y ago
LexisNexis, which does other things now but started in the legal space, offers a huge collection of legal opinions with a fairly good search and linking capabilities. Most clerks and law professionals would have access to it. I think the be
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by laGrenouille 4y ago
There is a rather surprising amount of research about these kinds of approaches [1]. The various strategies and extensions are an interesting read. ^[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_cake-cutting
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by laGrenouille 4y ago
But arguably the EU is even more motivated by the security issues of an emboldened Russia. Combined with the much stronger environmental push from groups in Europe, it seems reasonable that they would push as much or more for energy-based s
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by laGrenouille 4y ago
Yes, that's what I learned as well. And that's actually close to what Harvard reported using last year ($2.1 billion from the endowment; 40% of the budget). I was only using the more aggressive number as a thought experiment to th
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by laGrenouille 4y ago
Using Harvard as an example, they had an operating expenses of $5.0 billion in 2021 [1]. In order to cover that, they would need to be having a consistent rate of return around 9% on their ($54 billion) endowment. That a fairly good estimat
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by laGrenouille 4y ago
I see a lot of confusion about college endowments on HN. It's best to think of them not as saving accounts but financial instruments. Annual university budgets make use of the returns off of the endowment, often covering more than half
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by laGrenouille 4y ago
Yes, that's a good point in the case of six keys (I think my point holds for just learning three), but it is not the one made that the article seemed to make.
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by laGrenouille 4y ago
Interesting quantitative take studying chord distribution. The basic takeaway seems to be that if you re-phrase a song into a different key you can play a lot with just a few chords (I IV V), and even more with a few others. While I would a
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by laGrenouille 5y ago
And not just that, usually they can only get it back if you're fired with cause.
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by laGrenouille 5y ago
Thanks, though I actually meant to copy the entire thing (my fault). My point was that a lot of people working in data analysis would (strongly) disagree with the idea that we need to model the data in order to do anything with it. Visualis
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by laGrenouille 5y ago
> The unfortunate truth about data is that nothing much can be done with it This is a fairly strong statement that goes against a lot of other work in data science and information visualization (John Tukey, Edward Tufte, Jacques Bertin,
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by laGrenouille 5y ago
I agree about the product; perhaps they were acquired for the people rather than the actual IP. Would make sense from that perspective for HF, which has leaned strongly in the text direction, if they want to expand in the AI space.
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by laGrenouille 5y ago
The app is different. You can certainly use Netflix on a recent Apple TV [1]. [1] https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23887
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by laGrenouille 5y ago
The text makes it fairly clear that there is one particular line of code that each slightly longer example is showing off. The one line of interest is highlighted at the top of each example.
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by laGrenouille 5y ago
> NB. If it's a graph: write out the edge list (etc.) . I don't understand what issue you are referring to. For a dense network, each pair of adjacent layers forms a complete bipartite graph. In other words, edges are all pairs
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by laGrenouille 5y ago
This is fascinating. Does anyone know the original source of the material?
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by laGrenouille 5y ago
> if your definition of "mediocre" is "from a non-top-20 school", that definition is absurd. My guess is that they are talking about a program that is Top-20 in a particular field, or even large sub-field, rather than
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by laGrenouille 5y ago
As somewhat alluded to in the article, there is a similar movement within the study of Classical Greek. In some ways this is even more interesting for classical Greek epics because there is good evidence that they were traditionally sung. T
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by laGrenouille 5y ago
The opening of this essay is a beautifully written and surprisingly timely reflection on the importance of not judging the worth of time spent on certain pursuits purely on their direct, material utility. I was hoping the rest would build o
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by laGrenouille 5y ago
Airtable is a great example of what I would like to see. Basically, the ability to create sheets that are are like airtable-like that users can reference as usual in other general-purpose excel sheets.

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