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by mziel 11y ago
And yet Big Yud refuses to publish the conversation. I know his arguments (unknown unknowns) but this is a very un-scientific approach and frankly why should we believe that what he said happened really happened?
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by mziel 11y ago
Logic tells us those two statements are equivalent. p = "reading books" q = "success" p => q is equivalent to ~q => ~p
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by mziel 11y ago
Not trying to start a flame, but what difference does it make that they're male or female? The difference is as you said "some important school".
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by mziel 11y ago
This very much. Understanding the underlying concepts is crucial. Many people use out-of-the-box tools just plainly wrong, because they didn't bother with fundamentals. I know a guy who reinvented Naive Bayes and Laplace smoothing. Kud
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by mziel 11y ago
You misunderstood me. I was not criticising the submitter, kudos for the change. I was criticising the clickbaity title of the article.
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by mziel 11y ago
And of course the real title is "The big question: are books getting longer?". Re: article, it's disheartening that good books suffer from this as well. I've recently read "The power of habit" and "Think f
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by mziel 11y ago
Big chunk of consulting is this busines model, i.e. develop a solution and sell its integration in the vendor architecture. Is their solution that much different?
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by mziel 11y ago
Lots of tools make coding more accessible to large audience. IDE, higher-level languages, better tooling, libraries/frameworks/modules, stackoverflow. However this didn't result in less work for the programmers, on the contra
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by mziel 11y ago
Training Paul isn't just a BG byproduct. When he figures it out Thufir Hawat smiles and tells him it was the plan all along. I don't recall Leto or Thufir knowing about BG plans towards Paul.
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by mziel 11y ago
There are. It's all about variance reduction. See the Breiman's paper on Bagging. There's nothing special about random forest though (apart from the fact that a decision tree is a good learner, because of the nonlinearities f
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by mziel 11y ago
So basically Siri?
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by mziel 11y ago
"When wikipedia has a server down, my apparent IQ drops by about 30 points" https://xkcd.com/903/
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by mziel 11y ago
> A lot of problems suddenly disappear. Not to be negative but citation needed. Also (I guess we'll cross "isolation" of the list): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_giftedness#Social...
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by mziel 11y ago
I would argue that it has exactly the same impact. Your argument is a bit of "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" nature. Unless the advertisers want to publicly (!) admit that they
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by mziel 11y ago
I'm not French, but: http://blog.sextantproperties.com/2012/08/21/the-positives-o... >However, if you apply for a credit or mortgage in France, all you will have to provide is your last 3-month bank s
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by mziel 11y ago
And why wouldn't they switch to MS or Google Drive? The migration costs don't seem overwhelming. Dropbox won't disappear, but it's not a beast you make it out to be. Case in point: I'm a big fan of Excel and Word, i
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by mziel 11y ago
Are you sure, it's not "It was an accident" ?
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by mziel 11y ago
Can you provide links? Greatly appreciated!
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by mziel 11y ago
Something, something, Sapir-Whorf hypothesis :)
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by mziel 11y ago
> That means language users have a global preference for more locally grouped dependent words, whenever possible. YMMV, but for German (I'm not a native speaker, although fluent) you can't figure out the meaning of the senten
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by mziel 11y ago
But there is no cost/downside. At least for you. What I'm arguing is that this "reminder" is not effective.
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by mziel 11y ago
Yes, but what does the question actually capture? What's the incentive not to agree with that statement? Or maybe everyone puts "4" instead of 5 to hedge their bets? Don't want to deride the question without seeing someo
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by mziel 11y ago
1. Given what I know of this person’s performance, and if it were my money, I would award this person the highest possible compensation increase and bonus. 2. Given what I know of this person’s performance, I would always want him or her o
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by mziel 11y ago
I lived through Statistics, Business Analysis, Decision Analytics, Data Analytics, Data Mining now Data Science. Same thing renamed over and over again. Regarding post above, it's right. Data scientist is someone better at statistics (
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by mziel 11y ago
Most of the things can be transformed through lapply family (and d/plyr equivalents). d/plyr has simple parallel=TRUE. For other problems use mclapply(). That's basically all you need on a day-to-day basis.
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by mziel 11y ago
My main criticism is around two things. One, "clunkiness" of class creation (which I guess is subjective); I don't think it's very readable, but maybe that's bias from other languages. Second the S3/S4/R4
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by mziel 11y ago
It really depends on what you're doing. If you're a developer tapping into data analysis, sure. But I'm building predictive models for a living and I evaluated quite a few different frameworks and languages. Sophistic algorit
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by mziel 11y ago
Exactly! There are many good languages for data analysis (Julia is one example) but no other language (not even Python, which is BTW leaps and bounds above all the other alternatives) can match the library support and statistical maturity t
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Spurious Correlations(tylervigen.com)
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by mziel 11y ago
There are some instances of type inference i Java. 1) Diamond operator for generics 2) Type inference for lambdas Naturally would be good to get even more of it.

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