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Build a Slack Dashboard Using Meltano and Superset(preset.io)
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Build a Live-Updating Covid Dashboard Using Google Sheets and Apache Superset(preset.io)
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by skadamat 7y ago
Visionshot looks neat! It looks like there's a few different apps trying to solve a similar set of problems. Screenotate by Omar Rizwan is the one I used for a while: https://screenotate.com/
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by skadamat 7y ago
You might like Screenotate by Omar Rizwan - https://screenotate.com/
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by skadamat 7y ago
Speaking of LEGO, I went to the Alcatraz tour in SF and they had an amazing lego mural on the floor consisting of the faces of important civil disobedience activists. It was done by Ay Weiwei remotely from his home in China (he's under
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by skadamat 7y ago
I'm surprised nobody in this thread has called out StarterStory/IndieHackers as a place to read about stories like this! https://indiehackers.com https://www.starterstory.com/
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by skadamat 7y ago
The book: Small Giants. This entire book is literally about companies that focus on deliberately growing but still staying excellent. Many were profitable and didn't raise a lot of outside funding. Many also were strongly owned by empl
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Billionaire David Koch dies at age 79(reddit.com)
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I link to one specific class of examples here in this comment -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20763618 This happens well before a company is acquired though (it happens when investors put in money into a company and
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by skadamat 7y ago
I think you're talking about liquidation preferences: http://stockoptioncounsel.com/blog/negotiating-equity-what-i... For founders: There's many reasons why this happens, but one of them is the negotiating po
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How to Be a Great Data Scientist(dataquest.io)
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I personally think this article is kind of silly. Ultimately, depending on the field, you probably need to be T-shaped in some way - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-shaped_skills Deep in 1 or 2 important areas, and bro
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by skadamat 7y ago
Super neat! This is a compilation of datasets sent out from Jeremy Vine's Data Is Plural Newsletter - https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural
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by skadamat 8y ago
Hillel Wayne was recently on the Future of Coding podcast and they go deep into formal methods - https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/038
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Howard Buffett's Border War: A Billionaire's Son Is Spending Millions(phoenixnewtimes.com)
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by skadamat 8y ago
We're aiming to do this at Dataquest (where I work). Essentially create a complete learning path from 0 to job ready. Data Scientist path - https://www.dataquest.io/path/data-scientist Some of the projects peppere
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by skadamat 8y ago
The first 20 mins of Bret's talk ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agOdP2Bmieg ) discusses representations quite well in a very similar context / framing. The challenge with roman numerals was definitely computing w
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by skadamat 8y ago
Here's what works for me! I reflect clearly on what tools / techniques I'm already comfortable with and think of ideas for some projects I'd like to do. Then, I figure out how to bridge the gap. E.g. I'm super comfo
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by skadamat 8y ago
For people here who are interested in transit, I highly recommend Jarrett Walker's book "Human Transit". He really focuses the conversation around a few ideas that almost everyone can agree on (and uses them to focus &
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by skadamat 8y ago
Dear god: Information theory A Mathematical Theory of Communication A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits Beta distribution Binary code Block cipher Boolean algebra Channel capacity Computer chess Data compression Digital elec
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Interview with Ammon Bartram from TripleByte on Hiring Processes(softwareengineeringdaily.com)
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by skadamat 8y ago
Then you'd especially love Alan's talk!
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Dataquest Labs | Senior Infrastructure Engineer | Remote | www.dataquest.io At Dataquest Labs, we teach data science interactively online to hundreds of thousands of students worldwide. We're focused on teaching skills and building int
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by skadamat 8y ago
Love this intro! All of the popular dataframe oriented tools (tidyverse, pandas, etc) all require familiarity with vectorization and thinking with related mental models. I'm involved with Dataquest Labs and we teach data science intera
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Hey there, I'm involved with Dataquest and we have a Pandas and NumPy fundamentals course where we dive into more intermediate concepts like vectorization, key data structures, and the key functions. https://www.dataquest.io
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by skadamat 8y ago
This post is SUPER relevant - http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesi... The rant is about interaction design in computer screens, but the points made here are easily transferred if we treat the tools &
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by skadamat 8y ago
Possibly! That def could be interesting. In general, we're just not great at processing symbolic representations. We haven't evolved to do so (unlike spatial, visual, auditory, etc senses for matching representations) and have onl
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by skadamat 8y ago
It's funny you say that. This is something Alan Kay talks about at length. For example, watch the first 20 mins of this talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvmTSpJU-Xc Essentially, he asserts that computing (or comp
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by skadamat 8y ago
I have no idea to be honest. I just gave a nominal amount, think it was like a hundred dollars. I would happily give a LOT more if I had stronger financial means / if I thought it would actually have an impact. It seems like they'
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by skadamat 8y ago
One of the goals of Dynamicland is to foster the creation of new representations that take advantage of + live across more sensory modalities. Bret calls them modes of representation, but there are similar phrases in learning & psycholo

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