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by mwexler 9y ago
Fair enough; I've never used it locally as I always am using hosted versions. Still, lots of extra overhead to just beat up some tables in sql. If you think you would do more beyond that, however, makes sense to try a notebook...
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by mwexler 9y ago
Isn't this self hosted, running on the windows client, so you can quickly work with small datasets that are local? Vs. Zeppelin which is hosted (or, if local, is running via docker), and would require uploading the data? If you alread
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by mwexler 10y ago
And QEMM which made it all work...
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by mwexler 10y ago
They started as such the un-mainstream group, trying to aggregate coupon codes so you could get fair prices without getting hammered with marketing. My, how things have changed. Kudos to them for the payout, but sigh.
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by mwexler 10y ago
No, the importance is massive, and you understate it. While we may all want to just believe, the regulatory ecosystem worldwide (where it applies, esp. in financial realm) demands that we provide explanations of why models made certain dec
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by mwexler 10y ago
Perhaps better with the word "should" instead of "would"...
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by mwexler 10y ago
But system controlled garbage collection is great until it's not. When I need space, I need it now, not when system decides I do. We've seen it with Java, and now with iOS. Yet another thing that iOS does on my behalf that I ma
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by mwexler 10y ago
So, the app explodes in size, and since almost no app provides a "clear cache/temp" feature, apps grow til you are crashing routinely. While iOS may clear some space when it feels like it, I have a monthly routine of deleti
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by mwexler 10y ago
You could also query Excel with SQL; the ODBC driver is part of Windows. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15844633/using-excel-as-a... gives an example of how to use. Not the best database in the world, but so
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Twitter to leverage IBM Watson to fight online bullying(geekwire.com)
1 points by mwexler 10y ago|0 comments
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by mwexler 10y ago
Lots of authors vie for early word processor fame... https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/01/conte... was one I recall liking at the time.
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by mwexler 10y ago
While great to see, this also highlights just how far we are from where data science needs to be. The amount of code necessary to just pull down and reformat data before any real analytic work is done is always staggering; I see it in my w
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by mwexler 10y ago
...which fixes all the code you wrote, but of course, you may have legacy binaries that you don't have access to source to change... hence a simple setting of an environment variable, hardcoded though it may be, fixes the situation for
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by mwexler 10y ago
Finally, a reason to buy an MS Surface Hub ( https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-surface-hub/en-us ). Or at least a Surface Studio ( https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/devices/surface
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by mwexler 10y ago
They don't really mention anything about Opera VPN... but they do call out it's previous incarnation, Surfeasy, for the use of tracking/ad libraries. I wonder if the current Opera branded version has removed those or not...
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by mwexler 10y ago
Note also that Rolex supplies parts only to registered dealers and repair shops, and they are expected to turn away watches with shady provenance which might be grey market. They even make the repair shop return the worn parts, to prevent
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by mwexler 10y ago
+ this. It's actually much harder than folks think; most solutions are still rules and sentence fragments that you string append. Automated Insights and Narrative Science are both doing interesting work, but more is needed here. (...
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by mwexler 10y ago
Speigel Online had a phenomenal article (Oct 2016) about the transformation of Deutsche from a staid German bank to a crazy highflyer. http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/the-story-of-th... is in English
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by mwexler 10y ago
While I'm not a security expert, seeing the various ways that someone can steal info from a site even after all the protections GitHub put into place was fascinating, and does bring back the old concern: if a site as large and respecte
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by mwexler 10y ago
Props to Joe Celko's books. I found they helped me reconceptualize how to get SQL to solve problems that I thought required another language.
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by mwexler 10y ago
This sounded like the old "Discussion Topics" from SNL in the 90s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_Talk#Discussion_topics
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by mwexler 10y ago
I see comments that "an IDE can do this". Perhaps so. But there are lots of data-discovery missions where you need to learn a codebase quickly that you won't be fully compiling or building yourself. Perhaps you need to rep
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by mwexler 10y ago
Attachment theory within the early areas: lots of great science. Applying it to what feels like every aspect of human interaction and decision making: not so much. Attachment theory was hot in the 90s as well, with lots of not so great
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by mwexler 10y ago
Unclear on the audience for this post. All the "jet engine" stuff sounds like it's aimed at consumers, but this is of no interest to average consumers; instead, shouldn't this be of interest to devs who build web apps o
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by mwexler 10y ago
Looks like they are calling it Piwik PRO Tag Manager, and the team doing this is the gang trying to provide professional services around the Piwik open source web analytics tool. I can't help but wonder if this is a shot across the bow
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DAK Electronics Catalog from 1984(archive.org)
2 points by mwexler 10y ago|0 comments
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by mwexler 10y ago
Gedanken! https://www.britannica.com/science/Gedankenexperiment I love this word and it's associated meanings. Einstein is it's most famous practitioner, but I find it's a useful way to play out sit
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by mwexler 10y ago
How is this different from https://github.com/douglascrockford/ADsafe ? And isn't this all from 2011 or so? I recall this concept popping up then as well. I haven't seen much uptake from the ad industry which
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by mwexler 10y ago
Funny, Microsoft used to talk this way in the 90s when IE and Windows ruled the roost. While they are still strong, they do now appear to worry more about financial discipline. Worrisome predictor for today's darlings?
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by mwexler 10y ago
Sadly, almost everything you mention involve opening files, and files are often on networks. Standard modal file|open on windows allows http:// access to files on hosted servers, for example. Suddenly, all of these are potent

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