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751.
by usgroup 7y ago
...that should really be quantum computing right now.
752.
by usgroup 7y ago
I’d temper the “many opportunities” with, “about as many as there are use cases for data that people understand”. After 6 months of failing to hire in Lisbon a company I know still won’t spend 3k to work out what the local market expects fr
753.
by usgroup 7y ago
This is my space broadly speaking and personally I think the treatment in the article is unnecessarily idealised and elaborate. People will buy data when it has a clear use which means most people don’t sell just data, they sell “leads” or
754.
by usgroup 7y ago
It’s not about R, it’s about CRAN. It blows python as a tool for specialised statistics out of the water and hence R is more standard for natural sciences, actuarial uses, medical, etc. R is a rubbish general purpose language and should not
755.
by usgroup 7y ago
IMO, your requirements are too basic to need a serious system. Either log interaction to a file or a database, parse the output and query it with SQL to produce your basic metrics, or just write to Google Analytics. When this starts creakin
756.
by usgroup 7y ago
Well if you’re happy with a prior that sees you fail after a year’s effort 95% of the time; you should do a startup (don’t kid yourself about better odds). Perhaps if you were capable of putting in 5 years of pivoting trying and failing you
757.
by usgroup 7y ago
Well, once you launch your startup I look forward to being a customer :-)
758.
by usgroup 7y ago
I suggest you dabble ... go buy a textbook and have a read. Once you get a sense of what you don't know, it won't scare you as much. Or at the very least you'll know what you don't know.
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by usgroup 7y ago
It reminds me of the “why we switched from Mongo to X” or “why we switched from Ruby to Y” trends some years ago. I saw Clojure become popular long before it was ready for the limelight: it definitely wasn’t pragmatism driving it. It was a
760.
by usgroup 7y ago
whats your background? And what sort of job are you looking to get from it? If you want to be an actual scientist then do something thats actually scientific: elaborate an experiment design, collect your own data, analyse it and draw conclu
761.
by usgroup 7y ago
I’d agree if it didn’t keep happening .
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by usgroup 7y ago
I think it’s very difficult to motivate going out of your way to hire decent devs that know clojure and java only to throw away the clojure some time down the road. Begs the question, why not just write it in Java? Then at least its more li
763.
by usgroup 7y ago
Yes.
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by usgroup 7y ago
I think it’s noteworthy that whatever the benefits of clojure it didn’t outweigh the adoption issue. It’s quite a mature language so I’m not sure that bodes we’ll for its prospects this late in the game.
765.
by usgroup 7y ago
It’ll colour your approach to everything but it’s unlikely to ever be directly “required”. I’d recommend BDA3. It’s a Treasure of a book. The maths is relatively simple but it does expect a early grad level mathematical maturity.
766.
by usgroup 7y ago
A provable ability to conduct Bayesian data analysis: from experiment design, to modelling, to evaluation and back again. I think it’s what makes a “data scientist” legitimate.
767.
by usgroup 7y ago
So far as I can see github pages supports ssl termination with let’s encrypt certificates all by itself: https://github.blog/2018-05-01-github-pages-custom-domains-h...
768.
by usgroup 7y ago
Pressure has nothing to do with it. Have at T the sort of conversation that requires another at T+1.
769.
by usgroup 7y ago
There is a way but it requires you to think one conversation ahead at each conversation. 50% of your objective in the initial conversations should be to generate the next conversation. That means you can’t just add “ok, next steps” at the e
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by usgroup 7y ago
No it isn’t a fad. Data collection by every man and his dog is really happening. The need for people that can use the data in order to improve business outcomes is the consequence of it. Data collection will become more prominent IMO becaus
771.
by usgroup 7y ago
> The recent decline in interest... Can you quote a source for this?
772.
by usgroup 7y ago
Hear, hear
773.
by usgroup 7y ago
I think that this is fair advise and undoubtedly appropriate for some. Especially those that have cast their net badly and now believe that their time spent as an entrepreneur wasn't worth it. For others however, going back to work in
774.
by usgroup 7y ago
I think provide some links to your products as an example of what sort of thing you cut. It’ll give folks a sense of how you think and what you’re capable of. You’ll find the advise on here will probably be a lot less variable thereafter.
775.
by usgroup 7y ago
Would you mind saying a bit about what value you hope the user of the site will get from this?
776.
by usgroup 7y ago
I’m quietly hoping that at some point folks will stop trying to make The world compatible with the idea of IQ and do more of the converse instead...
777.
by usgroup 7y ago
I think it’s just a title in the British style from the 40s where there were lots of books with “for boys” in the title. It usually implies a gloss over some otherwise serious subject: camping, survival, the universe, etc.
778.
by usgroup 7y ago
I fear it’s an inevitability. Is anyone here old enough to have lived through the last credit cycle that can speak to what happened in tech as a result?
779.
by usgroup 7y ago
I think you’ll be wasting your time if you’re looking for actual impact on your life. Try spaced repetition and/or incremental reading instead: they have much clearer and more substantive effects that you can experience directly. You c
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Ask HN: When will the music stop?
3 points by usgroup 7y ago|2 comments

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