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by noodlenotes 6y ago
Specifically, this is my advice to ENTRY level data scientists who are trying to find a job and compete against a flood of candidates hot off the bootcamps. I guess once you get your foot in the door, you can be that guy if you want. It see
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by noodlenotes 6y ago
Also, a lot of data scientists find the science fun and the engineering boring. But they have overlapping skill sets - if you aren't good at one, you're probably not good at the other either. Somebody who shows up to a team with t
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by noodlenotes 6y ago
Reminds me of "running amok" from Malaysia and Indonesia. > In a typical case of running amok, an individual (often male), having shown no previous sign of anger or any inclination to violence, will acquire a weapon (traditiona
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by noodlenotes 6y ago
This may be obvious to everyone else, but it wasn't until I adopted a dog that I realized how much "playing" is reinforcing skills needed for survival, like hunting and fighting. When dogs play with each other, they mostly wr
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by noodlenotes 6y ago
Using the normal "we" would imply you and the readers of the comment. The royal we implies that you personally (and whatever entities you're in charge of) will hold polluters liable. The royal we seems to excuse the audience
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by noodlenotes 6y ago
What really surprised me is that the US is three times the size of India! (2.5x not counting Alaska.) I guess I'm used to hearing that the US isn't actually as big as we like to think so I over-compensated in the other direction.
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by noodlenotes 6y ago
"Democratic" is confusing because it could mean either "relating to democracy" or "relating to the Democratic party" whereas "Republican" almost always refers to the party. I don't blame anyone f
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by noodlenotes 6y ago
On the contrary, any scientist that says they're 100% confident doesn't know what they're talking about. "Belief" is as good a word as any to describe how we look at probabilities, weigh evidence, and come to the mo
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by noodlenotes 6y ago
We're unlucky in that Covid takes such a long time to kill. It's a little under a week until symptoms onset, another week until serious illness [1]. Hospital patients aren't dying of Covid until almost 2 weeks after admission
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by noodlenotes 6y ago
Did East Palo Alto actually turn things around, or did it just gentrify as housing prices in the nearby cities went up and up?
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by noodlenotes 6y ago
When do you wash your windows if not when the gas is pumping?
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by noodlenotes 6y ago
Nothing in their comment says they weren't managing fuels already. They may have decided to go beyond the standard requirements after seeing the increasing fire risk in recent years.
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by noodlenotes 6y ago
There's another possibility but only because you mentioned SQL specifically. People often use SQL as shorthand for "understand how to manipulate data," and if a new hire doesn't have this skill it can really set a data t
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by noodlenotes 6y ago
> "Improve the moment" where you simply think about what pleasant sensory experience could you introduce right now to make you feel better and then you do that quickly This is (un)surprisingly similar to a dog training techniqu
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by noodlenotes 6y ago
The problem is that the people who back reopening are also against precautions that would make reopening safer. If I could trust the random people I'll encounter to wear their masks correctly and stay home if they're sick, maybe I
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by noodlenotes 6y ago
This would be like calling numbers constrained between 0 and 100 "multiplied". Yes, in some common situations you normalize data and it ends up between 0 and 1. And in some common situations you multiply and end up with numbers be
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by noodlenotes 6y ago
In the US. I took Latin in high school and translated classics like Ovid and Catullus. I wouldn't be surprised if Latin was less popular now even though it's only been a few years. It seems like the feeling is that so few American
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by noodlenotes 6y ago
Being tech savvy can be a burden when it comes to discovering new features because you're afraid of making a "stupid" mistake. Accidentally posting to Facebook is something the tech illiterate do, not us , so why would we cl
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by noodlenotes 6y ago
They're referring to a paper published in Cell. "Tracking changes in SARS-CoV-2 Spike: evidence that D614G increases infectivity of the COVID-19 virus" https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(20)308
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by noodlenotes 6y ago
I love hiking pants! But as a woman, my hiking pants pockets are not large enough to hold my (large) phone, making the zipper useless. I'm actually trying to remember if I have any pants pockets that fully encapsulate my phone and noth
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by noodlenotes 6y ago
Change my view: it's unprofessional to have a group photo (2 or more people) as your LinkedIn avatar. Doesn't matter if the other person is your kid, SO, friend, or coworker. There's exceptions if you're the focus of the
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by noodlenotes 6y ago
Indefinite lockdowns, vaccines haven't been "proven possible" either. At some point you have to make a plan with the best information you have. The fact that spread in New York has slowed down compared to other states that we
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by noodlenotes 6y ago
The underlying assumption in your comment is that worrying is bad. Worrying is a great thing! When I get in the car, I worry I might have a car accident, so I wear a seat belt and pay attention to the road. Either you think OP's concer
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by noodlenotes 6y ago
Dinged? The implication is that they brought him in for an interview even though he was unqualified so that they could say they tried, not that he didn't get the job because he wasn't Indian.
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by noodlenotes 6y ago
Scott didn't delete his blog to remove all traces of it from the internet. He deleted it so that if the NYT publishes the article, they'll be forced to include the story of how they threatened to doxx him. Can't publish an ar
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by noodlenotes 6y ago
You don't see that someone might read the title and infer there's a current outbreak of Covid-19 in Antarctica? The title seems like deliberate clickbait without a year.
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by noodlenotes 6y ago
People aren't arguing with you because they despise people who want to work remotely or even because they don't understand it. They're arguing because you're deliberately misinterpreting why people want to work from the
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by noodlenotes 7y ago
Most disinfectants only claim to work on hard, non-porous surfaces.
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by noodlenotes 7y ago
But how does anyone know they have a mild case of Coronavirus? It looks just like the cold or flu. Now that there's community spread, you can't assume that you only have Coronavirus if you've recently traveled or had contact
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by noodlenotes 7y ago
Recommender systems are notoriously hard because it's difficult to do better than just recommending the most popular content. You can recommend more personalized content at the expense of KPIs like click-through rate.

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