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by mswen 11y ago
Imagine combining: ubiquitous video surveillance, cloud based automatic facial recognition, cellphone tracking and now, as this article explains, computational detection and classification of emotion. I have a positive bias toward technolog
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I have been doing applied statistics in combination with qualitative research and industry analysis; all pretty traditional project based kind of work since the mid 90s. In recent years as I added in NLP, SQL and web dev style programming s
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PhD in Neuroscience to Chief Data Scientist at NYC Startup(computationalimagination.com)
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I have at times made my living writing and developing presentations for audiences ranging from executives of major tech vendors to CIOs and their teams at fortune 500 companies. My twenty-something daughter has just completed a BA in Scient
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1] Solid product or service that is legal, ethical and useful. 2] Top leaders with the right mix of vision, ambition, practicality, integrity and kindness 3] Growing at least modestly - it helps keep morale sound 4] Solid and sustainable pr
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Tripling your rate of return from 1% to 3% is only an extra $3600 a year. I suspect the same amount of effort applied to your core business would yield a better return on your time and mental energy.
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I recently started my own site http://computationalimagination.com for branded writing and interviews. I absolutely wouldn't consider publishing on medium. I just don't see any benefit to giving up control and branding
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Ask HN: What disciplines will contribute most to IoT analytical methods?
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One thing that the author focuses on is trying to predict what will be big in the medium to longer time horizon and preparing oneself to be competent in that while few others realize that "it" even exists. I am a bit older than th
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Although this article is not about product development, I am reminded of how I described a product I was working on to a friend. My goal was to have the user experience be very simple and intuitive and yet what we did with the data on the b
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Interviewer here: Among other good insights about math and software development, Tim really advocates for productivity and life quality benefits of distributed software development and data science teams. He discusses the tool stack that en
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Profile in Computational Imagination: Tim Hopper(computationalimagination.com)
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1] Scratch my creative urge in public 2] Give substance to thought 3] Codify and automate processes liberating myself and others from drudgery 4] Build something that expands my luck surface 5] Communicate my ideas 6] Establish a bran
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Not sure what most people do. I sometimes hit the new and the ask pages to see if there is some good content that I can upvote or comment on. I recently began writing and have posted a few links to articles. I just recently found that an a
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Practical Significance: Moving Beyond P Values and Probabilities(computationalimagination.com)
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What developments in technology have caught you by surprise in the last couple of years? Follow-ups: What is happening faster than you expected? What did you expect to be important/successful by now but it isn't? Data is getting
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100% remote can work just fine for start-ups. That way everyone gets used to the communication methods. I was part of a team that built an award winning platform that was eventually acquired. We had people scattered around the US and in In
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I noted that even when a submission doesn't get any comments on HN or any upvotes - I still get 6 to 10 referral hits on a story I published on my blog. Of course I would hope that people might become engaged enough to comment or upvot
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Watched the video - looks potentially helpful. Signed up for early access. So is this already built or are you testing the waters to see whether you should build it?
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Part of it is the creative urge. Bring into being something that started in your own mind, not the mind of a product manager. With programming I give substance to the ephemeral. I codify and automate processes and liberate myself and others
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Is your selection of cities driven by how accessible the cities permit data is? It doesn't look like it is driven by size of the metro area.
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When I interviewed John D. Cook for a Profile in Computational Imagination I asked him a similar questions here is his answer: John: One danger that I see is algorithms without a human fail-safe. So you could have false positives, for examp
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Thanks I will shoot you an email. Your response in this thread is the kind of more nuanced and accurate positioning of what you are doing and why systems biology might now be ripe to make a real difference in the drug discovery phase. It
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That was my first thought - my other comment put the initial onus on the journalist for creating a strawman opponent. However, when writing my second comment with a little history of systems biology - including within large pharma - I thou
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They aren't
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I don't currently have access to those publications and not willing to pay just to read these articles but from the titles, abstracts and citations it sounds like basically you are taking a systems biology and GWAS approach? The Instit
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I understand that journalists often create a simplified straw-man to contrast to a new and innovative upstart, however as someone who once served as an industry analyst at the intersection of life science discovery and technical computing t
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It seems that there is a class of consultants that are essentially gurus. Their advice doesn't come out of fresh primary research on the client situation and current market dynamics. Instead they speak from ongoing expertise and keepin
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Initially I was in the camp of reluctant to associate myself with "data science" because it might be just a passing fad. It still might be, but for now I have started using that label. I started in industry as "an applied or
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Interesting read. The pithy dismissals of companies that have gone on to amazing success reminds us that no one, even those whose livelihood depend on these judgments, gets it right all the time. Many times the reasons given for not invest

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