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by nrjames 10y ago
While gaming oriented, there's a great group of people who discuss pretty much everything over at the Quarter to Three forums. https://forum.quartertothree.com/
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This reminds me of Sweave for R.
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The long history of Python support in the scientific community has produced a rich catalog of domain-specific analysis libraries. Warts and all, it's simply not possible, in most languages, to achieve the analytical productivity you ge
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This is great. You know what would really take it to the next level? Tides! It would be awesome if micro-adjustments along the coast showed the times of low and high tides. My parents, who live along the coast, would use it multiple times&#
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by nrjames 10y ago
West with the Night, by Beryl Markham. This is the autobiography of a woman who grew up on a farm in British East Africa (Kenya) in the early 1900s. She eventually became a bush pilot and the first person ever to fly an airplane solo across
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Shiffman also has a "Coding Rainbow" series on YouTube that is pretty great. He has a good personality for goofy YouTube programming teacher. https://www.youtube.com/user/shiffman
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I'm a big fan of Processing or p5.js for teaching kids that age how to write code. The immediate visual feedback from a line or two of code creates a positive feedback loop that encourages learning. Shiffman's book Learning Proces
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I would structure your resume to focus on your projects, giving them detailed descriptions, in which you can describe the languages, libraries, etc... that you used to implement them. That way, you put the technology in the context of the s
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Well, that's sort of how d3.js grew.
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I did what you are considering for the reasons you mention. I sorely miss the freedom of being self-employed. My employer is extremely flexible, but nevertheless, I almost never have time for my personal projects. I'm far less efficien
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My dream is to see one of these graph databases use NetworkX for the python API and the database for the back end / storage.
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Is there a reliable python module for working with ArangoDB 3.0?
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It is useful for people to understand what goes into developing software in the same way that it is useful for people to learn geometry in high school. Code is the most tangible form of algorithmic thinking that is accessible to most people
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The Hello World Open was super fun a few years ago; code the AI for a slot car. Their site says they'll hold it again this year: http://helloworldopen.com/
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It's almost just like this children's book! Weasels: Elys Dolan http://www.amazon.com/Weasels-Elys-Dolan/dp/0763671002/ref=s...
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Not to mention the fact that some research suggests they blast bacteria all around the bathroom/environment. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/13/dyson-airblades-s...
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This is your current best resource: http://www.creativeai.net/ And this is an intro to that site, in a way: https://medium.com/@ArtificialExperience/creativeai-9d4b2346...
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You could easily extrapolate from those textures to a Wang tileset, as explained in this old paper from Microsoft Research "Wang Tiles for Image and Texture Generation": https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8d96/c
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What comes with the PhD positions is a requirement to respond to RFPs with concept notes, proposals, etc... and a lot of high level project management. They provide subject matter expertise from an analytic angle (usually without getting in
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by nrjames 11y ago
I work as a data scientist at a nonprofit research organization (rti.org) and have to apply far more skills than the PhD researchers here. While we fall back on them for depth in subject matter expertise, we also have to understand conceptu
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Yep, I'm well aware of all of that because I sit on our "Cloud Technology Advisory Committee," which feels like a scene from Brazil. However, many here work with sensitive PHI and various types of classified data, so the conc
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In an enterprise environment, Slack is sometimes considered bad because all of the company data is not under the company's control. I seriously doubt that the company I work for ever would go all in on Slack, precisely for that reason.
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Not to be confused with MacKenzie-Childs :) http://www.mackenzie-childs.com/
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I like the site but for usability, I would prefer to see all of the hex values for a given palette at once instead of hovering over each color individually.
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It's an abstraction layer on top of SQLAlchemy. There might be some performance hits, but none that have made me question whether I should be using it. The convenience of having a more pythonic way to work with data for ETL scripts is
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Dataset is awesome. I've been using it consistently for the past several years. It is lovely in ETL scripts, especially considering you can use it just to send regular SQL when needed.
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Interesting that Microstrategy also is down quite a bit.
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Donate them to the Library of Congress?
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Deep learning stuff. We push to servers for deployment but it is very convenient to develop/test on a laptop first.
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I would like to purchase a Macbook Pro with a dedicated Nvidia GPU, so that I can use CUDA. The only viable option is a 2 yr old refurbished MBP for $2k. So... what now? I'm looking for a good laptop with an Nvidia chip that will run L

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