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   by ttub 10y ago

   The idea of misinterpreting metrics is a very general idea and is not specific to statistics. Humans want to distill vast amounts of information to a more manageable amount, like for example a single number. Equity analysts look at accounti
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   by ttub 10y ago

   I share your sentiment. I got a 13" TB in Novemember, and I just had to return it to an apple store and have the keyboard replaced because the shift/enter key was stuck. The TB (100 % gimmick) also sometimes randomly looses light
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   by ttub 10y ago

   Very cool, but does anyone know more about the plan to offer a "lib pandas" mentioned here? https://mail.python.org/pipermail/pandas-dev/2015-December/0...
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   by ttub 10y ago

   That article almost gave me cancer.
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   by ttub 10y ago

   I got a maxxed out 13 inch (touch bar) a couple of days ago, and I hate the new keyboard (I never got used to the shallow keyboard on the 12", after having one for almost a year). The Touch Bar is also pretty much a useless gimmick. B
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   by ttub 10y ago

   No offense intended, but what is your background? I'm a researcher with a physics/stats PhD, and if a colleague approached me and said "stochastic gradient algorithms" entails three highly complex areas of scientific kno
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   by ttub 10y ago

   This problem also has an "infamous" and very simpe, elegant solution described in Programming Pearls: "The idea is to give words that are anagrams a common signature, sort all the words together by their signatures, and then