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by urlwolf 10y ago
Bosch, a German company that serves the auto manufacturers, seems to have bought patents on a battery technology that could be a breakthrough. Remember that 'the German way' of doing business is not to make noise at all. There hav
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by urlwolf 10y ago
If anything, this analysis under-represents the success of solo founders. Because VCs don't like solo founders, it's less likely they go for a VC path. There must be plenty of successes that are bootstrapped. And these solo founde
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Ask HN: How often have you reinvented yourself (new tech stack)?
27 points by urlwolf 10y ago|18 comments
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by urlwolf 10y ago
I have been in Berlin for 8 years and would not change it for London at all. In data science at least there's far more action here. More interesting technologies (Flink), people taking more technological risk and reaping the benefits.
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by urlwolf 10y ago
10 years in academia, doing modeling/machine learning. 3 years doing moonshot startups. 1 year consulting in data science. 3 years doing a business that actually works, generates lots of value to many people (Data Science Retreat). 1-
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How to speed up learning machine learning (Data Science Retreat founder)(medium.com)
4 points by urlwolf 11y ago|0 comments
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by urlwolf 11y ago
Empathy is a killer skill for any job, technical or not. The good news is that it can be trained. Many of the best tech leaders I know are very emphatic.
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by urlwolf 11y ago
The current Big data ecosystem is a difficult place to be for companies that bet the house on hadoop (cloudera, Hortonworks, MapR) for sure. There are new technologies coming at a breakneck pace. Check out apache Flink if you need streams a
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by urlwolf 11y ago
Another KVR and gearslut forumite here.
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Fifty(jacquesmattheij.com)
400 points by urlwolf 11y ago|115 comments
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by urlwolf 11y ago
Happy to hear this, as an expat living in Berlin and being very concerned with the current NSA situation.
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Tapkee, a dimension reduction library(tapkee.lisitsyn.me)
45 points by urlwolf 12y ago|7 comments
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Does speaking at conferences help your business?(popforms.com)
2 points by urlwolf 12y ago|0 comments
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by urlwolf 12y ago
I use a Maltron with linear cherry blacks. It was a great investment. Move away from qwerty (I use colemak) and you will be on the safe side. Never had a problem since switching.
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by urlwolf 12y ago
This could be nice if well supported in the future. Incanter is kind of 'too little, too late' to be a serious contender in the data science panorama. And incanter seems to lack momentum. It feels that python/R/Julia hav
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by urlwolf 12y ago
Data Science Retreat - Berlin or Remote Data Science Retreat is the only bootcamp in the world with Chief-Data-Scientists as mentors. We train pretty good people with technical backgrounds into fully-employable data scientists, probably the
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by urlwolf 12y ago
Anyone doing R comparisons should use data.table instead of data.frame. More so for benchmarks. data.table is the best data structure/query language I have found in my career. It's leading the way in The R world, and in my way, in
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Functional Programming Patterns(slideshare.net)
31 points by urlwolf 12y ago|2 comments
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by urlwolf 12y ago
Business developer / assistant director, Data Science Retreat Berlin, Germany. Data Science Retreat is the only bootcamp in the world with Chief-Data-Scientists as mentors. We train pretty good people with technical backgrounds into fu
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by urlwolf 12y ago
csvtools have had a tool to do this for a while. Not directly though, it goes through sqlite.
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by urlwolf 12y ago
DB is the worst banking and customer experience I've had in my life. They have a high tolerance for incompetence, in every corner of their business.
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by urlwolf 12y ago
I know Raphael (tech lead) and I know a bit of the history. This project has legs...
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by urlwolf 12y ago
Explanation: where is it? How fast can you doodle? Can you train people to improve their doodling? Does this improve memory? Can you doodle concepts like a random forest?
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by urlwolf 12y ago
I've worked from the beach for months. Granted, this was in the UK, and there wasn't much sun to worry about :) But the best solution I could come up with was a screen cover. It attached itself to the monitor, and created a foldab
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Altucher: 33 Unusual Tips to Being a Better Writer(medium.com)
1 points by urlwolf 12y ago|0 comments
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by urlwolf 12y ago
Data Science Retreat - http://datascienceretreat.com/ -Community manager - Berlin, Germany Outgoing, eloquent and friendly Community Manager. This is our pitch to prospective students: "Data Science Retreat (DSR) is t
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Green spaces have lasting positive effect on well-being(bbc.com)
1 points by urlwolf 12y ago|0 comments
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Defensive Bash programming(kfirlavi.com)
127 points by urlwolf 12y ago|57 comments
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Look out, Europe: Data scientists are coming your way(venturebeat.com)
1 points by urlwolf 12y ago|0 comments
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by urlwolf 13y ago
I'd not stop you, but once your are here, I'm pretty sure you'll be sorry that you can stay only one month... apply though.

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