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by vavooom 4y ago
Many smaller companies in rural communities that haven't migrated to a system like ADP still use physical paychecks and accounting ledgers. Think regional ambulance companies, small part manufacturers, etc.
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by vavooom 4y ago
Lowering the expertise threshold required for technicians, electricians, mechanics or reliability engineers to be effective. This is a really interesting application I hadn't considered before. Having lots of blue-collar family, help
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The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom – Visualized(jameswwilson.dev)
2 points by vavooom 4y ago|0 comments
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by vavooom 4y ago
Great use of a Shiny visualization here - wonderful way to communicate these results
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by vavooom 4y ago
I've come to the limited experience conclusion that Zettelkasten is a great tool if you are doing detailed non-fiction writing, blogging, or research, and plan to for more than a year. Outside of these scenarios its just storing inform
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by vavooom 4y ago
Just did the same to my bookmark. In Smart Note Taking, the idea of focusing on what you are consuming for the purpose of learning and writing is constantly stressed. Namely, in reading something, how does this further my learning and/
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by vavooom 4y ago
Also interested if these are free-use
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Thoughts on ML Engineering After a Year of My PhD(shreya-shankar.com)
119 points by vavooom 4y ago|48 comments
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by vavooom 4y ago
“The bottom line: Sit to do computer work. Sit using a height-adjustable, downward titling keyboard tray for the best work posture, then every 20 minutes stand for 8 minutes AND MOVE for 2 minutes. “ Pretty sensible that movement is key to
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17th Century Watercolors Diagram(c82.net)
20 points by vavooom 4y ago|0 comments
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by vavooom 4y ago
A larger, more detailed introduction to this topic is best discussed by Hadley Wickham in his seminal paper "A Layered Grammar of Graphics". https://byrneslab.net/classes/biol607/readings/wickham_lay
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by vavooom 4y ago
I have personally been impressed with the increased offerings at my local 7/11 (milk, eggs, decent produce i.e. bananas). While not a perfect selection, it certainly serves as a walkable stop-gap of healthy offerings. Would be interest
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by vavooom 5y ago
Seriously - would love to find one online, event for a tough markup. Not sure when to expect a new wave to become available on the market.
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by vavooom 5y ago
I would invest in this
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by vavooom 5y ago
"largest investment in Ohio's history" "the largest semiconductor manufacturing location on the planet" What is it that makes Ohio such a key and ideal place for such a massive investment? I assume there must be an
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by vavooom 5y ago
Absolutely right answer. And plenty of places to play with others like https://online-go.com/
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by vavooom 5y ago
Awesome work Neel - this is an inspiration to start blogging again!
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Africa's Rising Cities – How Africa will become the center of the world’s future(washingtonpost.com)
42 points by vavooom 5y ago|9 comments
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by vavooom 5y ago
Also worth plugging the advanced speed of R’s data.table package which continues to trump dplyr to this day. The syntax is also more compact and straightforward once you understand how to query data with it.
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by vavooom 5y ago
Would people reccomend this as a way to cement an understanding of Python / OOP in general? I’m typically more geared towards data science style scripting use cases and want to explore more problem focused programming.
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by vavooom 5y ago
Platforms like Alteryx ( https://www.alteryx.com/ ) used for large data cleaning strike me as a strange stop gap between a clunky system like Excel (which has its natural 1 million row limit) and Python/R/SQL that a
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Cities and Ambition(paulgraham.com)
2 points by vavooom 5y ago|0 comments
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by vavooom 5y ago
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/ Terence's blog is a wonderful view into his research and background, as well as a catalog on the immense amount of work he has accomplished in such a short time. Will be interesting to s
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Devoured – How China’s Poyang lake was decimated by sand mining(graphics.reuters.com)
3 points by vavooom 5y ago|0 comments
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by vavooom 5y ago
"The company projects that it will bring an economic output of $9 billion to Arizona in 2024, along with 15,000 jobs across its own operation and via demand induced through suppliers." Between Lucid and the Semiconductor industry
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by vavooom 5y ago
A reminder that a 2% drop followed by a 2% rise does not return to the previous tops. Drops while appearing small do have their significant impacts felt for longer than expected.
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by vavooom 5y ago
I am also curious to know if the # of votes is integrated into the ranking at all, possibly weighted. Could also attempt NLP Text Sentiment analysis to influence the model as well. Regardless, fantastic work already!
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by vavooom 5y ago
I do enjoy the idea of a journal focused entirely on the review of statistical methods and underlying methodologies applied in modern day research. Could act as a helpful signal for relevant and applicable research.
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by vavooom 5y ago
This documentary really helped me understand and appreciate Go way more. Started my new found love of the game. Wish more people in the US played!
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The West can learn from China(unherd.com)
7 points by vavooom 5y ago|0 comments

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