renjimen

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by renjimen 7y ago
Hmm, I'm not sure about that! Formatting in Python, sure - because it's not designed for outputting colours and type face. But the popular Python package, Pandas, makes Excel-like tasks a breeze. I'll often help colleagues wh
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Seems to work well enough in most OECD countries
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You're getting a service? I used to buy a CD a week and listened to less music than I do now with Spotify for a quarter of the cost. Yes, it's nice to have a physical collection but I'd rather discover more new music
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> Everybody means men, too. Sorby’s program, for example, improved the spatial skills of male engineering students as well, boosting their scores on tests. Because they start out ahead of their female counterparts, their gains often put
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I don't think that salary is the driver in Europe that it is in America. People value their life outside of work to a greater degree, and there is less emphasis on getting rich. The thought of taking a job with twice the salary but a t
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They seem that way now, but when a computer was the size of a building, perhaps not.
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Just give me the damn list of everything in your database and let me search and sort using the metadata. Why do they need to throw algorithms at everything?
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I long for the days of foobar2000!
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Spotify. These days it's so hard to organise or browse your own music collection.
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The Premier League is one league in a country of fewer than 70 million people. Try adding up all the leagues across Europe for a fairer comparison. Then it's no contest - football (the one played with feet) takes it
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Well this is great news for the environment!
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It's timing too. I would've commented something along the same lines as you but of course by the time I got to reading the comments on this post it already had 148 comments, at least one of which covered what I would've contr
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Not quite the same, but equally as disastrous is data leakage. This comes in some fun and unexpected forms. One example is from the fisheries monitoring competition on Kaggle, where NNs were learning to predict fish caught using the backgro
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It’s pure pragmatism. There aren’t the resources to build and maintain a sewage network everywhere it is required. Having a more self contained, affordable solution is better for many places.
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> I would see kids waiting for the school bus at 7 AM. Brutal! Taking this to the extreme - I saw kids in the extremely rural Copper Canyon, Mexico, catching the twice-daily bus at 5am to get to school every day. Though, to be fair they
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Not just research, but applied physics too - at least, that was my experience working in the defence and energy sectors. Looking back, it’s remarkable how little of my physics studies were devoted to learning about the computational techniq
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by renjimen 8y ago
This looks like just the product I need to move away from putting my travel snaps on Facebook. Instagram isn't suited for albums and Flickr is hard to build a narrative with. Looking forward to trying it out after my next trip!
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> Mathematica and Matlab both had "notebook" like features for a long long time. They probably didn't take off to the same extent as Jupyter because they're not free. IIRC MATLAB was quite expensive, particularly if y
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You'd think so. Maybe my setup is faulty. Something for me to look in to
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That's surprising because I have the opposite experience! Since my first cell is to import all of the libraries I want to use to memory, the intellisense works without fail, regardless of how big the libraries are. Comparing that with
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by renjimen 8y ago
I second the sauna! A great way to switch off after work.
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There are studies showing the natural sleeping cycle of adolescents is shifted back a few hours from the norm. e.g. https://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1196/ann...
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by renjimen 8y ago
Cheer up! Take a break from the news, read Factfulness by Hans Rosling and realise it's not all so bad.
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> Myth is cheaper to produce and often sounds more true to the uninformed listener It's also more likely to be shared[1], and thus generate ad revenue [1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-02934-x
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by renjimen 8y ago
Similar story with the tech consultancy I work for. IBM tried to pitch the WU API to us during the summer for a large-ish project for a major client of ours. Thank god we ended up going with Dark Sky instead or that could've been quite
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by renjimen 8y ago
How late are you working out? I try to avoid exercise after 2 hours before bed time otherwise I have too my energy to fall asleep on time.
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Me too. It did a good job of putting in to words that which I had a gut feeling for.
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Sounds like he just wants people to stop having kids at all. Like our society wouldn't collapse within a generation if we didn't. Somehow it's an individual's responsibility to maintain the future workforce and the rest
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"Reproduction holiday". I can only assume you have never spent time around babies and small children. Holiday usually is the last word that springs to mind.
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Unfortunately it's a paid-for app. You should be able to get the first month for free to see if you like it.

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