mswen

28 ms·

241.
Cost-Per-Observation:Decreasing Exponentially(computationalimagination.com)
1 points by mswen 11y ago|0 comments
242.
That's an Empirical Question(computationalimagination.com)
1 points by mswen 11y ago|0 comments
243.
Business Model Fire Insurance: The Phoenix Strategy(linkedin.com)
1 points by mswen 11y ago|0 comments
244.
by mswen 11y ago
I have been a fan of John Cook's writings for a few years. So when I decided to launch a site where I could post some of my own writing I thought it would be fun to interview and post transcripts with people that I find fascinating. Jo
245.
Profile in Computational Imagination: John D. Cook(computationalimagination.com)
4 points by mswen 11y ago|1 comments
246.
by mswen 11y ago
I looked around the site a bit. Looks like pretty interesting data collection using simple IP cameras and computer vision algorithms to identify unique foot and vehicle traffic and counting and time tagging each one. The business use case
247.
by mswen 11y ago
work with a group that use Mozenda - I haven't worked much with it directly. They made it through a couple years of scraping with Mozenda. They recently decided to spend more and installed Kapow. More mature platform - lots of featur
248.
by mswen 11y ago
It sucks. Hopefully you will land on your feet. I went through a similar situation. The founder at least let us know the approximate runway length before our series A funding would run out. It was clear to everyone as employees that we were
249.
by mswen 11y ago
I mainly learn now by looking up things when I have a need and then hoping to still remember it 3 months from now when I need it again. The material covered in your tutorial is kind of the daily bread and butter stuff that I use and am com
250.
by mswen 11y ago
It was nice to find your site in addition the the Khan Academy's SQL course. Maybe I will try to direct my kids to walk through this. I am curious if you know a resource that would start approximately where your site/tool stops.
251.
by mswen 11y ago
Some good advice in this blog post. I remember a conversation with Bill Wells about customer research. Key points he made: Keep doing qualitative interviews and focus group until you aren't hearing new stories/needs/pains -
252.
by mswen 11y ago
networked Thanks for posting this and your application to business settings. It feels like this is an instance of a more general class of reasoning errors. The reasoning error is to ignore or underestimate the impact of the context when w
253.
by mswen 11y ago
coffee for sure, several cups a day - black, no sugar or cream sometimes add a shot of espresso. Tea - once a month
254.
by mswen 11y ago
First of all, congratulations on the revenue and from your statement that it is not even close to failing I infer that you must have at least 15% to 20% profit margins and have replaced salary and benefits you personally would be earning wo
255.
by mswen 11y ago
Everyone will be different ... but my experience was that when I went to apply my statistical skills to securities trading it ended up boring me. I keep thinking that it is a good idea because where else can being "correct" lead
256.
by mswen 11y ago
I live in the Minneapolis area and I was looking around on behalf of someone else the other day and came across the following: For people making a transition into coding from other fields - pay $15 hr for a three month training period and
257.
by mswen 12y ago
I am 53 year old male. I have been working out variety of approaches but very consistently for the past 14 years. My current routine has me lifting free weights 3 days a week (M,W,F). Squat, Deadlift, Bench Press, Military (overhead) Press
258.
by mswen 12y ago
Difficulties in Life come from a variety of sources: 1] Self (both inherent genetics, the fruit of prior decisions and difficulties which we seek out) 2] Your Circle (family, friends, coworkers, neighbors; think about the things those peopl
259.
by mswen 12y ago
I had read far enough to know that you are using what people say via facebook and twitter and email archives as input signals rather than surveys or other traditional psychometric instruments. Are all your word -> personality trait relat
260.
by mswen 12y ago
huahaiy, are you familiar with the work of William D. Wells - he created the psychometric Lifestyle Survey run for many years by the ad agency DDB Needham? I had the opportunity to study with Bill after he 'retired' to academia.
261.
by mswen 12y ago
Thanks for the perspective.
262.
by mswen 12y ago
Thanks for the feedback.
263.
Ask HN: Demand for editing as a service
2 points by mswen 12y ago|4 comments
264.
by mswen 12y ago
I took a look - registered for the free personal version to try it out. I like the ideas and a nice working demo that sucked me in. I fiddled around with modifying the R code and running it again. It was a little confusing in places. Eventu
265.
by mswen 12y ago
I come from a background of quantitative social science by scientific training - used to think of myself as an applied or pragmatic statistician. In recent years I have added database skills, text mining, taxonomies and old school rules-bas
266.
by mswen 12y ago
Thanks for the additional info. Its always fun to hear a little of the back story when people are willing/able to share. I have built both prototypes and production systems using a couple of different approaches to text analysis. Its a
267.
by mswen 12y ago
biomimic - if you built this are you willing to discuss the underlying technology and business model a bit? I am curious about your corpus source for making the connections; company filings, company websites, financial news, other - all of
268.
by mswen 12y ago
Practicing Christian, participate in multiple ways within a local church. I have a MA plus additional grad level work in quantitative social sciences. Many but not all fellow grad students were either atheists or agnostics. I am fairly tech
269.
by mswen 12y ago
As someone else has suggested, keep doing freelance web development while studying at university, it is a perfect flexible income source that pays significantly better than the average pay a student would get from a part-time job. It might
270.
by mswen 12y ago
One option is to go get an additional MA in Statistics and become really proficient using R. Continue to work on C++ in Machine Learning projects and take a course or two specifically in Machine Learning either from the Statistics departme

More ›