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by timdellinger 5y ago
Perhaps I'm under-informed here, but hasn't this all been covered by the philosophers who concentrate in Aesthetics? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesthetics
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by timdellinger 5y ago
see also "Consumer Heterogeneity and Paid Search Effectiveness: A Large Scale Field Experiment" (Tom Blake, Chris Nosko & Steven Tadelis) in which EBay did the same experiment (they stopped advertising), and also "The Unf
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by timdellinger 5y ago
There was a study of academic collaboration (measured by co-authored journal publications) showing that collaboration between academics increases as the distances between offices shrinks. Office is across campus? Office is in the building
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by timdellinger 5y ago
I think what we're learning (or not learning...) about social media is that you have to aggressively self-curate your own feed. I, too, have a marvelous experience on Twitter, but I do have to cut out the people who post in ways that
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by timdellinger 5y ago
I'm seeing statements about the payments server and the money associated with the payments server, but (at the risk of using an analogy) it seems like they've lost their "petty cash" box, not their main account. Surely
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by timdellinger 5y ago
It's plausible that this is all a scheme to evade capture. Disband the current organization, (get rid of a few people who you've wanted to jettison anyway), and then set up shop afresh elsewhere. It sends the message to whoever&
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by timdellinger 5y ago
For what it's worth: US patent law has now changed. The law is no longer "first in invent", it's now "first to file". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_to_file_and_first_to_inv...
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by timdellinger 6y ago
No one has really written "the book" on Data Science for marketing yet - this is nice peek into a small slice of that world.
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by timdellinger 8y ago
Aren't these recognized as "weasel words" nowadays? We won't sell your data, but maybe we'll sell a summary of your data, or maybe we'll use the data to put you in a category, and sell a list of members of t
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by timdellinger 8y ago
There is a contingent of people who prefer the small size and the headphone jack of the iPhone SE in a world that's moving towards larger and larger phones; recently released iPhones lack a headphone jack. The entire screen can be reac
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by timdellinger 8y ago
(For those who might not recognize it: this is a clever play on the first line of Jane Austin's novel Pride and Prejudice.)
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by timdellinger 8y ago
I have no data, but my guess is that there are more principal engineers in non-software than in software.
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by timdellinger 8y ago
Agreed, although I'll note here that this was posted to /r/python under the clickbait version of the title, so the HN submitter was likely just passing it on from there.
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by timdellinger 8y ago
It's a bit of a tangent, but there's an entire field of study called "fractography" which is all about doing things exactly like that. Further tangent: "a piece of broke glass" can exhibit interesting morpholog
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by timdellinger 8y ago
relevant explainer video: https://youtu.be/KIbkoop4AYE (CGP Grey's "The Debt Limit Explained")
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by timdellinger 8y ago
From the article: "The agency said it would keep a “small staff” to receive new applications and filings, to receive payments and maintain the information technology infrastructure."
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by timdellinger 8y ago
Also, there's no incentive to keep them clean - people will come in no matter what condition the place is in. They often end up smelling like stale beer and corn syrup.
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by timdellinger 8y ago
Some of the scariest words that occur when a radical new product is launched are telling current customers of existing products "you'll be automatically upgraded".
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by timdellinger 8y ago
It's fairly obvious that Ajit Pai knew exactly what was happening, and he acted in bad faith by letting it happen. My bet is that he signed off on things that he knew to be false, and that he exhibited willful negligence. In the proce
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by timdellinger 8y ago
I'd be interested in the numbers on this. To get a rough number, I typed "data scientist" "San Francisco, CA" into indeed.com and it's reporting 2,832 job listings. So of those 2,832 openings that companies ar
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by timdellinger 8y ago
I'd be curious to hear your experiences hiring - I've been on the hiring side in the chemical industry, but not in data science. Let's say that the funnel of applicants for one position starts with 250 resumes. How do you pr
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by timdellinger 8y ago
The number of prospective employers that will actually pull up your github / portfolio project website / etc (let alone read it) is not especially different from zero. It's important to have stories to tell during an intervie
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by timdellinger 8y ago
$350 for a gamble on a bra that you may or may not like, that might end up in the back of a drawer forever?
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by timdellinger 8y ago
Does anyone have a reference for "In 1966, researchers at the System Development Corporation discovered that the best programmers were more than ten times as effective as the worst." ? I'm seeing the year 1968 at http:/
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by timdellinger 8y ago
Definitely true for anything named a "Center of Excellence"
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by timdellinger 8y ago
Chemical synthesis of medicine is highly scrutinized and fairly well understood, but there are a lot of other products that large chemical companies make in great quantity that are basically made using Black Magic. Tinker with it until it
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by timdellinger 8y ago
I think I missed the author's design goals for a performance management system: what it's supposed to accomplish. Performance management systems have a natural tendency to degenerate into sources of toxic behavior... one of the mo
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by timdellinger 8y ago
It's interesting seeing how a community codifies the nomenclature and the formalization of the various things that it has stolen/borrowed/reinvented from other communities.
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by timdellinger 8y ago
> * For this toy problem, there is actually a simple closed-form solution for the probability so there’s no need to simulate I got about 1/3 of the way through your comment, when my knee jerked and I said "Bernoulli trials, Bin
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by timdellinger 8y ago
Location: Arlington VA (DC metro area) Remote: maybe Willing to relocate: nope Technologies: data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, python, pandas, numpy, scikit-learn. I could reboot my R or Mathematica if needed. Résumé

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