peatmoss

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by peatmoss 8y ago
Welcome to impostor syndrome. It NEVER goes away. The worst part of impostor syndrome is that sometimes, you really aren't qualified, and so you can never fully move past the self-doubt. You don't sound like the Dunning-Kruger sor
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by peatmoss 8y ago
> A boot camp probably won't tell the process to make sure a linear model is the right choice. Very true. On the other hand, it's a pleasant rarity when I see positions that appear to index more heavily on, "how well is th
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by peatmoss 8y ago
Hmm... do you offer career counseling services? How can I sign up? ;-)
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by peatmoss 8y ago
My goodness, are you me? I've been having exactly the same thoughts. Provided one finds a data science role that roughly aligns with your training / interests, the actual work is comically easy compared to what you go through in a
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by peatmoss 8y ago
I have a love / hate relationship with bucketing a whole lot of formerly separate disciplines into the data science label. In my case, I'm a reasonably solid R / Python programmer (who occasionally dabbles in racket, clojure,
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by peatmoss 8y ago
> Pay for movie theater ticket, get served 30+ minutes of ads. Man, you aren’t kidding. I’m a spoiled Seattleite who can walk to two IMAX theaters attached to a non-profit science center, Paul Allen’s Cinerama, and an indie theater. I ha
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by peatmoss 8y ago
Wait, but if those hypothetically competitive startups can only compete because they can trample my privacy, why the heck do I want them? I mean, it’s not like Facebook and Google aren’t already big enough to smother would-be competition in
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by peatmoss 8y ago
Many governments are providing access to the sort of data you link out of a desire / mandate for transparency. As an undergrad journalism major, one of our assignments was to dig up as much information as we could from public records a
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by peatmoss 8y ago
Do you disagree with the author’s premise that multi-decade reproducibility is of value to the scientific community? On what basis would you make that disagreement? And if you concede that the author’s proposed timescales have merit, how do
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by peatmoss 8y ago
They’ve got some infrastructure such as “Packrat” that helps a little. You can at least be sure you have the correct version of each dependency stored away with your sources. You still need the right interpreter version. And of course if yo
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by peatmoss 8y ago
https has ruined everything :-)
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by peatmoss 8y ago
Yeah, I think it would be AMAZING if the B5 rights holders would turn over the reels to a film archive who could then digitize and release those materials to the public domain. I have no doubts that the fan base would give B5 the remaster i
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by peatmoss 8y ago
Regarding the remaster of B5: It’ll (probably) never happen. Star Trek TNG was the first and probably last analogous show to get the remaster treatment. The issue is that, even though the acting was shot on 35mm, post production and VFX all
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by peatmoss 8y ago
The parent did address the issue, and did not make an ad hominem attack. The parent attacked the statement and sentiment where you compared compliance with a law, and making reasonable accommodations with the criminal act of arson. Universi
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by peatmoss 8y ago
As someone with a transportation planning background, I’m delighted for anything that isn’t a single occupant vehicle. Not that those don’t have a place, it’s just that they shouldn’t be the meat and potatoes of transportation. Electric bik
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by peatmoss 8y ago
That’s my worry as well if the non-electric analogs are in any way comparable. Lots of people have a knee-jerk aesthetic aversion to the self balancing seatless unicycle, but those always struck me as the most practical electric transportat
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by peatmoss 8y ago
I wrote off the Trackpoint back in its glory days, but I recant my former position. Trackpoint is the bees knees once you get used to it. The Apple touchpads have gotten huge and easily triggered, Trackpoint is the cure.
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by peatmoss 8y ago
That's a generous offer, and one that I'd echo. If anyone is unsure where to start, or wants some advice, I'll be glad to help you with domain registration and email hosting MX record setup.
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by peatmoss 8y ago
> highly anonymized global corpus of consumer email. I read this as confirmation that, if I were a Gmail customer, that you would indeed be using my personal emails to train your models. For me, I then have to wonder what "highly an
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by peatmoss 8y ago
I think if you are a (paid?) enterprise user, they do not do this. On the other hand, sussing out what is and is not fair game is quite a lot easier with a service such as Fastmail.
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by peatmoss 8y ago
To add a third, I have a problem with my personal emails being used as a corpus of text to train these models. Maybe they're using only my emails to train a model for me, and turning that feature off disables them doing so. Maybe they&
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by peatmoss 8y ago
I've recommended it elsewhere in similar threads, but a nice middle ground between self-hosted email (lots of work), and a straight-up Gmail/Yahoo/Fastmail/Hotmail/Etc account is to buy your own domain and set up yo
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by peatmoss 8y ago
I'm a paying Fastmail user. I switched over after they (EDIT: Gmail) started announcing compatibility-breaking features. Processing my emails to suggest content is one of a litany of reasons that I'm glad to have switched my email
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by peatmoss 8y ago
RIP Mapzen. I loved how much much you all were contributing to the open source web space.
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by peatmoss 8y ago
> In a few decades maybe, if and when AI has come to fruition (...) Assuming the EU's human brain simulation project comes to fruition, I wonder at one point we'll be able to raise a human child consciousness in VR—sort of a Ta
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by peatmoss 8y ago
I’d say this is an over-broad generalization. Weapons work is where aikido differs most from lineage to lineage in my experience. But your point that a style that trains ken exclusively is going to be more effective at ken than a style that
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by peatmoss 8y ago
Another benefit of your approach is that it plays very well with revision control.
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by peatmoss 8y ago
When I learned to type, I learned the two space convention. Some years ago, while working together on a paper draft a friend of mine hooted and laughed at my antediluvian practice. When he was done, I explained that the paper was destined f
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by peatmoss 8y ago
Sure aikido straddles the boundary between open handed and weapons. Kendo is going to do way better at ken than aikido. On the other hand, most aikidoka will have spent more time training bokken takeaways.
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by peatmoss 8y ago
Just like all the others!

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