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by mswen 11y ago
No great answers for you. Have worked with enterprise sales people in several different contexts. The most successful ones have each been unique. I have seen a start-up burn through its VC funded runway much faster than necessary by inves
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Although not a complete answer there was this sentence “We have molecules that are 300 times more poisonous to these cells than to non-senescent ones.”
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1] You are not measuring the "important" phenomena 2] Measurement error obscures the signal 3] Missing data 4] Data coming from disparate parts of a system may not have been collected at the same unit of analysis 5] Domain experts
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Thanks for the reply. I don't know if I have sufficient interest to actually grab the code and try it out. However, I will try to remember to look for your update post at the end of the season.
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Zephyer314 hello, interesting read. It is interesting to me that the lowest cumulative level for the tuned model is approximately equal to the lowest cumulative level for the simple model with no tuning. In fact if we had been only looking
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I suspect there is a market for this. My context is working with my biggest client who has used Mozenda and now Kapow to track pricing changes on 10K plus SKUs across 5 to 7 major retail sites for the past 3 years for the retail segment th
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Interviewer here: This profile features deepart.io founders Łukasz Kidziński & Michał Warchoł. They are both academic researchers by day. Possibly the most interesting part of our discussion was Łukasz' points about the use of Agi
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Academic Research going Agile(computationalimagination.com)
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http://computationalimagination.com/interviews.php A place for me to express myself through writing out of my own experiences as well as interviewing really smart and interesting people like: John Cook Tim Hopper Jon Krohn
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You are welcome. The fact that you are seeing signs of upward mobility at your current gig along with your wife's career suggest even more that you should stay the course. In 5 years - after you have been a director for 3 or 4 years an
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I first became convinced that Silicon Valley or Boston would be better for my career and opportunities to secure funding for new applications of technology back in 2000. And, yet precisely because of family roots and a rich social network a
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If she happened to take a quantitative methods focus for her PhD in Poli-Sci she could possibly head for the data science segment. Even better if she already knows R.
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1] Build a capabilities slide deck. Frame this exercise as what you would prepare if you were given the opportunity to do a 15 minute formal pitch of your capabilities to a room full of potential clients/employers. Advertising Agencies
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Those of us with engineering or mathematical background wish that what you assert would be consistently true. My own experience in medium to large corporations indicates that this is only partially true and often requires substantial endura
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I have an overall vision for something that I want to make. A rough outline so to speak. I then start to chunk it up into mini-projects. And, sometimes chunk those down into even smaller collections of tasks. I pick one of those mini-projec
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This metaphor might also work for delaying actual revenue because until the box is opened - that is we start charging real money for this software/service the state is unknown. That unknown is then subject to interpretation and forecas
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In some ways statistical modeling is trying to do with rigor and honesty about error what we seem to do quite naturally in daily life. That is we make decisions based on observed and/or shared and taught patterns. Stereotypes, prejudi
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Kind of fun to guess on other people - didn't feel the urge to put up my own pic. UI comment - when I scrolled down to guess on people lower on the page it seemed like sometimes it wouldn't let me activate the cursor in the right
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Interviewer here: In addition to talking about building trading models using sentiment from social media as an input, Rob also talks about his time working with Stan the Bayesian modeling language out of Andy Gelman's lab at Columbia.
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I loved this response until the end. When the absolute cost is actually really low relative to the cost of the analyst's time then skip the expansive analysis, use a reasonable heuristic and be done. I get frustrated with analysts wh
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A clear dose response was observed. Moderate physical activity Vigorous physical activity Walking or cycling for transportation Strength (resistance type exercise) Doing any one of these good - doing all four great. What this suggests to me
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I just had an incident like this. A firm that manages ghost writing for executives was looking for someone who understands data science and is also a writer. As a practicing data scientist consultant I get the subject matter. And, I have b
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The secret is sales and getting those first few clients. I have built a web application for professional and trade associations. I used to be Director of Research at an executive community with high annual fees - so I was building for a mar
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> Since last 3 years I have been working with This sentence gave it away for me. More natural statement would be "Over the past 3 years I have worked with ..."
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The founder and a couple others of us had previous work that put us in relationships with a lot of CIOs in medium to very large corporations. One of the pain points that we heard over and over was the IT acquisition process and dealing with
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Helped to build xPeerient which was a two sided marketplace for enterprise IT buyers and sellers. We built a good platform with some cool tech innovations and even had CIOs on the buyer side of the equation who loved it. However that enthus
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This kind of finding is one of the benefits of centralized medicine, storing medical records in standardized electronic formats. It gives a rich base for finding out relationships. Those relationships still need to be investigated for biol
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Do you need a Data Scientist?(computationalimagination.com)
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Does anybody have a really good tutorial that takes you the next steps beyond this level. I looked at the table of contents and see all the basic stuff I use pretty regularly. For those of you more advanced in SQL - what are your favorite
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Interesting cost scheme - $1000 a month - they estimate 600 to 800 hours for a person to complete. So if you can devote 60 hours a week, you can complete in 10 to 12 weeks for $3000. It is an interesting incentive to attract people who ca

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