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by trenthauck 14y ago
I think that's a fair point, but the issue is that most people stop with the application and don't pick up on the underlying math. So, we get articles[1] discussing the lack of data science talent that point to a lack of math as the reason
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by trenthauck 15y ago
This is the part that really irks me. It wouldn't bother me so much if I could test my model and get a score, without having to turn over the code in the event I won - of course without accepting the cash either.
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by trenthauck 15y ago
As a soon to be CPA, these recent articles on Benford's Law fascinating. But it's funny that there's extreme skepticism around Moore's Law, but Benford's Law seems to get a free pass. Just like Moore's Law it's a law matched to empirical
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by trenthauck 15y ago
There's a short write-up available on my blog: http://blog.trenthauck.com/post/10402535918/le-tweet-market
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Show HN: le_tweet_market, measures Twitter's stock market sentiment(twitter.com)
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by trenthauck 15y ago
Yes the slides are very nice. Anyone know what he used to create the deck?
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by trenthauck 15y ago
Although I can't read this because I'm not a subscriber, I can offer an anecdotal perspective. This isn't only Reading and Writing. I'm a Teaching Assistant at one of many college that claim to be the Harvard of the Midwest, and have been
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by trenthauck 15y ago
Would definitely be interested in this. Use it everyday for stats, but would like to get better at the fundamentals. I think for it to be most efficient, we should use the book that coincides w/ the MIT lectures.
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by trenthauck 15y ago
Removing the ads doesn't seem to remove the space it occupies. If this raison d'etre is giving me more space, then it should do so.
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by trenthauck 15y ago
This is cool, I've been doing something similar w/ the combination of the google command line tools and Mac's folder actions. Although it is only one way. Basically you designate a folder to always upload to google docs, then when you add
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by trenthauck 15y ago
Glad to see they're moving forward a bit. They launched with much hoopla, and since then the most that I've seen from them is a shorter url (tt.fm). That said, this is a really great service, of which I am a constant user. Hopefully this