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by roystonvassey 9y ago
Just five years back, this question would've been sacrilege in the 'data analytics' community.
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by roystonvassey 9y ago
A few years back, I was an out-and-out SAS guy. This was mainly because the company I worked for had everything in SAS. Then, our company acquired a competitor to SAS; SAS was booted out and literally, overnight, we were asked to stop using
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by roystonvassey 9y ago
Since the beginning of this year, I have begun to squat (and sit on my haunches) for 15 minutes daily. The target is to do this comfortably for at least 30 minutes by the end of the year. In my country (India), in the villages, you are like
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by roystonvassey 9y ago
This is spurious correlation at its best. Terrible science at it is worst.
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by roystonvassey 9y ago
This is becoming an increasingly worrying trend - to bunk any analysis with a comment on 'small sample size, biases' that somehow moves to the top of the comment pile. Statistically, there is no such thing as a 'small sample
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by roystonvassey 9y ago
I second this. I think Attia is one of the clearest thinkers on health, longevity and nutrition currently. Moreover, he is a trained doctor AND an ex-McKinsey consultant, a combination that marries a strongly analytical and numerical lens t
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by roystonvassey 9y ago
Right but once you have a pool of 25-30 people, you're set ( for most activities).
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by roystonvassey 9y ago
The way I (and others in my group) used Meetup was this: 1. Schedule a meetup to meet players ( soccer, in my case) and organize a game at the local ground. 2. Repeat Step 1 for 3-4 months 3. We now have enough regulars and switched over to
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by roystonvassey 9y ago
Yes, the number of times I've run to BLAS/Lapack errors on Windows with Python were countless. I'm glad to see this has been fixed though I moved to Unix OSes a few years back.
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by roystonvassey 9y ago
Wow! This is ridiculous. How, and why, is such a business model still working? The only scenario I can think of is when an independent researcher wants to publish his/her research to disseminate to a wider audience and invite critiques
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by roystonvassey 9y ago
ELI5: I'm not from academia so please help me understand. Are researchers who publish these [firewalled/copyrighted] papers likely to lose out on their earnings if this is 'open-sourced'? I'm honestly asking as I tr
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by roystonvassey 9y ago
I'm sorry - this is naive advice. Generalized, this would mean that we shouldn't innovate or develop anything new at all (if what's worked previously is the ONLY way it should work). Especially, with something related to diet
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by roystonvassey 9y ago
>during physical activity As someone who has been on a low-carb diet for 3 years, on and off, I definitely don't notice any difference in performance, mood or productivity while on a low-carb diet. Too many people (esp. those in a d
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by roystonvassey 9y ago
Glad to see this comment top of the pile here. I'm almost inclined to believe that people who are depressed AND choose not to do anything about it are likely to have an entitlement and/or victimhood mentality. The problem with tha
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by roystonvassey 9y ago
I find any kind of music highly distracting while programming.
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by roystonvassey 9y ago
I've been using Emby only for a few months now and love it. I was considering switching to Plex (for its probably better looking interface) but the comments here have convinced me against it.
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by roystonvassey 9y ago
As someone who greatly under-utilizes Sublime, I'm still amazed at the ease with which it handles crazy, large files. I never even notice it until someone remarks on how I'm able to open a ~20 Mb file without hassle.
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Struts REST API that led to the Equifax data breach(struts.apache.org)
3 points by roystonvassey 9y ago|0 comments
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by roystonvassey 9y ago
The problem is that data science, often, isn't just data science. It might involve doing a bunch of activities that are strictly not data science - scraping data off the web (Python has requests), visualization for some understanding (
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by roystonvassey 9y ago
In the same vein, a favourite anecdote of mine is about languages that don't have words for 'left, right, ahead, behind' and instead always use directions of the compass - 'north, south, east, west'. http:/&#x
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by roystonvassey 9y ago
Do people even visit google.com anymore? I just type in the address bar of browsers.
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by roystonvassey 9y ago
Is VISA sponsorship/remote-option available for this role?
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by roystonvassey 9y ago
As someone who works a lot on the computer, producing what is essentially sequence of bits, I had the same thoughts a few years back. What helped me alleviate this feeling of consumerism was to pick up DIY projects at home. I resolved to
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by roystonvassey 9y ago
Thanks! This looks very promising and it works without streaming over the Internet (from what I could gather on first pass). Will try this and post a quick review here.
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Ask HN: What is your home media player setup?
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by roystonvassey 9y ago
Makes sense. I use it for analytics and data-science projects. Will check PyCharm out though; this thread's got me curious about what it can do.
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by roystonvassey 9y ago
I'm confused. I've been using Jupyter as my go-to Python IDE. It has auto-code completion, nice charting abilities and even nice tools to convert my notebooks into presentations for execs. What am I missing by not having PyCharm o
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by roystonvassey 9y ago
Technical details aside, it could be because a high-impact news story is running on Reddit (and isn't available elsewhere, neither on FB/Twitter or mainstream news)
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by roystonvassey 9y ago
Unless you know now of a better solution, it is important to, at least, point out the options available. Are there other interventions that are better than hotlines?
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by roystonvassey 9y ago
I think I might have not understood your 2nd para altogether but the only legal repercussion I can think of would be the tie-ups that FB has with advertisers who've paid for certain minutes of FB ads. But, this is just financial and on

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