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by pvnick 11y ago
I'd love to read a couple of journal articles that you recommend to learn about TDA. I do large scale data analysis on health care data at my university and am always on the look-out for interesting techniques.
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Perhaps you should consider a career path that to you is more than a paycheck. There are zillions of options.
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It certainly feels that way, perhaps because I'm so used to apt on linux and windows just doesn't have any equivalent tools that I'm aware of. There's still a long ways to go on the software side to bridge the gap betwee
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Indeed windows for development is not always as streamlined as a unix-based system like OS X. I use a surface pro 3 with windows 8.1 and wrote a python script that opens a cygwin terminal at the top of my screen to provide Guake-like functi
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> There's a lot of docs that are useful for laypeople to improve their privacy, and then there's the ones that are going to do nothing but damage the spying capability of US intelligence agencies against nation-state adversarie
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by pvnick 11y ago
Snowden didn't decide which document's to publish - journalists did. He handed over a trove of information, among which was damning evidence that our government was/is doing something they shouldn't, and gave journalists
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by pvnick 11y ago
This is the kind of statistics that really tugs at your heart strings. This is a Kaplan–Meier chart: http://oncology101.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/OPTMAL_sur... Everytime the line takes a step down,
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by pvnick 11y ago
Get some money, download a historical EOD price data set, sprinkle in some math, et voila , riches!
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> The vast majority of people have never and will never murder. Like I said, modern society has instilled feelings of guilt and negative consequences with our comparatively well-developed ethical and justice systems, generally leading to
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People throughout history have killed, seemingly casually. It's human nature. I would contend that modern society has instilled these feelings of guilt associated with murder specifically against the natural tendency of man.
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by pvnick 11y ago
That's what happens when you get everything you think you want - money, fame, things - they end up not bringing you happiness. It's one of the great paradoxes of the human condition. It can feel terrible, that everything you thoug
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by pvnick 11y ago
Agreed. The stock market has been propped up by the FED for the past 6 years with free money from near-0% interest rates. Great for the folks close to the money supply (bankers, rich folks with lots of investments, etc), not so great for th
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by pvnick 11y ago
Why did you predict a meltdown?
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Wow, that was an eye-opening and interesting explanation of a different perspective than I usually read online, and I appreciate that
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As long as there are rich people there will be folks complaining that the rich don't pay enough taxes.
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by pvnick 11y ago
The populist (read: uninformed/envious) belief is that high-paid CEOs are simply entitled ladder climbers that don't provide any more value than the mail room clerk, and yet soak up zillions in bonus dollars that should instead go
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by pvnick 11y ago
> While James R. Clapper Jr., the director of national intelligence, said last month that “you have to kind of salute the Chinese for what they did,”... You have to kind of salute Clapper for what he did, committing perjury and then keep
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by pvnick 11y ago
I worked with Jesse a few years ago doing penetration testing on Firefox. He always amazed me with his brilliance. I learned a lot from his work, and he's a really nice person as well.
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by pvnick 11y ago
As one of the comments on the page pointed out, the article skips one of the most important time series analysis, namely symbolic aggregate approximation (SAX - http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~eamonn/SAX.htm )
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by pvnick 11y ago
Ipython notebook completely changed the way I do data science, specifically because its iterative/exploratory capabilities are so powerful. You can also hook it up to large scale service like hadoop/spark. Embedded Matplotlib char
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by pvnick 11y ago
Agreed, matplotlib is great. We use it all the time to make publication-quality graphs (output to pdf), specifically with time series.
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by pvnick 11y ago
It's an interesting direction we're headed if polygamy is "next." What's after polygamy? We have to ask ourselves what marriage actually is. Approximate modern progression (discounting ancient marriages involving yo
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by pvnick 11y ago
Not now obviously, but think 50-100 years down the line. Today there is a very real threat of a lone hacker (or a small team) breaking into and damaging some piece of infrastructure and committing an act of terrorism that kills real people.
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by pvnick 11y ago
What do you mean, grad level math analysis? Much of probability theory can be learned with basic multivariate calculus. (Perhaps there's a terminology misunderstanding here - when I see "grad level" I think "grad school,
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by pvnick 11y ago
It's an interesting question, what (if anything) should be done to correct this, if this indeed makes up for the majority of gender wage disparities. Ex-Reddit CEO Ellen Pao got rid of wage negotiations altogether to correct for women&
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by pvnick 11y ago
I'm surprised that font exploits aren't more common. A few years ago I wrote a font fuzzer that would periodically crash the kernel, but I didn't do as much research as I would have liked.
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by pvnick 11y ago
Josh was an incredible man. He was an inspiration, and everybody that knew him admired him. Always friendly and helpful to everyone. He supported me professionally both while I was at Grooveshark and after I left, and I owe so much to him.
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Agreed on the points listed. Typescript really helps with code being more solid and professional. We have a large-ish server application written in typescript the really benefits from the OOP principles that typescript enforces. Some initia
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Hell even William Gosset was doing "data science" when he popularized the Student T distribution while working for the Guinness Brewery back in 1908.
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Good article for beginners. A couple thoughts, just to build on what the author said: First off, data science == fancy name for data mining/analysis. Wanted to clear that up due to buzzwordy nature of "data science." Learn SQ

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