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by vkb 11y ago
I've seen this type of article come up at least once a year for the last five years now, but banning PowerPoint will not happen in the short-to-medium term in most large (and small, even) companies . Why? Because it's a default ap
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A Day in the Life of a Data Scientist(gallamine.com)
18 points by vkb 11y ago|2 comments
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by vkb 12y ago
Anyone interested in a more thorough and context-ladden history of Aralsk, Uzbekistan, and the transition from the Soviet Union to a sovereign country should check out Tom Bissell's great, great book, Chasing the Sea [1], about his tim
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Remixes with tennis data(pitchfork.com)
1 points by vkb 12y ago|0 comments
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by vkb 12y ago
Yes. Or, again, I don't know. That's the terrifying part. But given that we know the surveillance machine is much deeper than we anticipated, I can't come up with a worst case scenario anymore, which is what scares me the mos
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by vkb 12y ago
That's the thing...I [we] don't know what keywords trigger deeper searches, or how exactly our browsing/typing history is tied together in which database. If I type 'Bin Laden' in a chat, does it flag me somewhere?
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by vkb 12y ago
Speaking as a writer and blogger, I can say that this has absolutely been the case for me over the past year. Whereas before I used to blog about anything that came to mind (that wouldn't negatively impact my employment), I now weigh e
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How to read more(austinkleon.com)
1 points by vkb 12y ago|0 comments
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by vkb 12y ago
One might, but how many books to read is that? Taleb compresses these ideas very concisely and in a relatively easy-to-read manner.
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by vkb 12y ago
Two: 1)Antifragile by Taleb. It has given me a whole new framework with which to think about the world. He is consistently one of the only "modern thinkers" that I trust, and who delivers no b.s. 2)Confessions of an Economic Hitma
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What, in your opinion, is the best passive or semi-passive income?(reddit.com)
2 points by vkb 12y ago|0 comments
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Bartlebys All(dissentmagazine.org)
5 points by vkb 12y ago|0 comments
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Best Shot – Protecting ourselves from the anti-vaccine movement(thewalrus.ca)
33 points by vkb 12y ago|23 comments
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Passports for sale(dissentmagazine.org)
67 points by vkb 12y ago|71 comments
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How My Employer Put the “FML” in FMLA(the-toast.net)
404 points by vkb 12y ago|327 comments
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Five Choices: Or, Why I Won't Give Dave Pell Twelve Dollars (2002)(downes.ca)
2 points by vkb 12y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: How do you store family pictures?
3 points by vkb 12y ago|0 comments
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by vkb 12y ago
Data scientist here. It really depends on what kind/size of data you intend to work with. If you want to work with enormous data sets, focus on Hadoop and Machine Learning. You won't be able to learn a lot of Hadoop on your own si
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Interpreting the Animal Choices on the World’s Most Popular Programming Books(theawl.com)
1 points by vkb 12y ago|0 comments
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by vkb 12y ago
This might be good for developers, but I'm not sure how it's helpful for either heavy users or beginners. For business analysts, it's just another layer on top of SQL, which slows down processing time, and for beginners, it&#
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A Microsoft applied economist wants to give Nate Silver a run for his money(qz.com)
5 points by vkb 12y ago|0 comments
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by vkb 12y ago
Yes, if you're selling subscriptions. SEO is not meant to maximize subscription revenue, but to get people to click for free, aka ads. Which will it be for them? Two recent pieces are leading me to believe that NYT is floundering aroun
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by vkb 12y ago
In that case, it sounds like you should probably hire a native Russian (and Spanish, etc.) speaker to vet your dictionary.
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by vkb 12y ago
There's no real differentiation between moose and elk in Russian, since elk is the only one of the two indigenous to Russia and moose is a North American thing, so there's no real need to "split hairs" so to speak if you
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by vkb 12y ago
What really strikes me here, aside from the technical aspects, is the note on p. 21 about how the project was supported from the top because SEO was lagging as a result of site load time, and this line especially: "NYT became an e-comm
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Ask Polly: I Hate My Job and Feel Like a Fraud. What Should I Do?(nymag.com)
3 points by vkb 12y ago|2 comments
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The beauty of code(theparisreview.org)
11 points by vkb 12y ago|0 comments
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by vkb 12y ago
Yup, I've done that in 2011 when I had less work obligations..it was a great time.
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by vkb 12y ago
Finish writing my novel. Sure, I write after/before work (as did many famous writers as described in the really great book[1]), but it's HARD, and it's taken me 2 years to finish a first draft. I daydream about my schedule: u
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Party bus(therumpus.net)
1 points by vkb 12y ago|0 comments

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