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by wakkaflokka 9y ago
We've been getting something similar - data analysts with solely Excel and SQL experience who've been in the industry for < 6 months, looking for $120k starting salaries as data scientists in non-SF/NYC/Seattle locale
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by wakkaflokka 9y ago
The start menu searching bugs me to no end. I have a hard time understanding why something like that isn't fixed/improved. It's so terrible, it's impossible to miss.
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by wakkaflokka 9y ago
I have a 1080 GTX. With my electricity costs, NiceHash says I'd generate $100/month in profit. Not too shabby.
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by wakkaflokka 9y ago
What's the best Windows build for this?
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by wakkaflokka 9y ago
As a data scientist, I have the lingering fears of job automation. At least for applications-oriented work (as opposed to research). There's no reason Auto ML software couldn't take away most of the difficulty of model building in
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by wakkaflokka 9y ago
Very cool. How do you switch to a particular subreddit?
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by wakkaflokka 9y ago
Why not... xrb_196w8xumh5ewazrpfrdzspjf74ba8ijsqgrf8eemau8t8tqiekn7ishzouc7
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by wakkaflokka 9y ago
This is an interesting question to me, because I know little to nothing about the cryptography involved with cryptocurrencies. 1) What's the probability of the cryptographic ciphers behind cryptocurrencies being broken? 2) If they were
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by wakkaflokka 9y ago
Yeah, that's not the prettiest way of describing it ;) But if it really is just online gambling, is that in and of itself enough to sustain over the long term? I don't mean the ~20k BTC price, but the ecosystem itself. After all,
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by wakkaflokka 9y ago
I mean a big price drop. I feel like insane drops in price and cryptocurrency go together like peanut butter and jelly.
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by wakkaflokka 9y ago
This is going to sound completely ridiculous but I'm going to posit this anyway. Avoiding the debate of whether there are any widespread real-world usage for cryptocurrencies, is it possible that cryptocurrency is valuable (and has lon
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by wakkaflokka 9y ago
Serious question - is there any doubt that one can successfully convert BTC to fiat? I've done it many times on the major exchanges (Gemini & Coinbase) with absolutely no problem.
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by wakkaflokka 9y ago
I wish I could be omniscient for a few minutes just to know what happened to all the people I've A/S/L'd during childhood. Or maybe I don't want to know - I imagine some of them probably died from old age.
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by wakkaflokka 9y ago
I love WSL, but really want GPU passthrough support in the future.
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by wakkaflokka 9y ago
I wanted to do this at one point with cryptocurrencies. Use historical pricing data, NLP and comment volume on cryptocurrency subreddits and threads, frequency of search terms from Google analytics, major exchange status (Coinbase, Gemini,
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by wakkaflokka 9y ago
I always felt safe posting under pseudonyms, but then realized even if everything else is 100% private, somebody could theoretically use stylometry to identify me based on my posting style.
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In Your Face: China’s All-Seeing State(bbc.com)
6 points by wakkaflokka 9y ago|0 comments
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by wakkaflokka 9y ago
I've found this to be very true. I've got friends who were hired as data scientists, paid a great salary, and are finding themselves doing basic reporting and SQL querying all day. No statistical modeling, and certainly no buildin
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by wakkaflokka 9y ago
Thank you for this comment. I joined a non-tech company as their first data scientist, and am now tasked with building up the data science efforts of the company. Your comment is really ringing true, though I've found the company here
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by wakkaflokka 9y ago
Felt the exact same way after reading this, thank you. The quotes on failure rate and 'vast majority' without any data to back it up, coming from someone who is a data strategist, was a little odd. In my opinion, I feel like we ar
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by wakkaflokka 9y ago
Can you expand on this? I've looked into several data science positions in Japan and they pay on-par with the U.S. From what I've experienced as a person who spent decades there, the key is to not work for a Japanese company...
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by wakkaflokka 9y ago
I personally think any battle to prevent widespread adoption or use of always-on listening devices is fruitless. The only option is to provide safer alternatives with the same functionality. My opinion is that the proper way to deal with th
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by wakkaflokka 9y ago
Sounds like he was just trying to show off his new gadgets? I've got Hue bulbs in every room, but if it's easier to flip a switch, I'll flip a switch (Hue bulbs still turn off/on with the regular wall switch...). What I
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by wakkaflokka 9y ago
Where do graduate students receive free housing?
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by wakkaflokka 9y ago
This is actually a fantastic idea. Please make it materialize!
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Ask HN: Tools or services to prevent stylometric identification?
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by wakkaflokka 9y ago
TPOT is also a good automl package that utilizes sklearn in Python. It's also actively under development. (I'm not affiliated, just an occasional user) https://github.com/rhiever/tpot
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by wakkaflokka 9y ago
Is this surprising? I'm pretty sure that any HN story about "x increases risk of y", where x is a popular activity or consumption item, is going to have a flood of people justifying their partaking in x. As long as the risks
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by wakkaflokka 9y ago
Do you have a recommended resource on how to feature engineer with DNNs for use as inputs in other models?
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by wakkaflokka 9y ago
I love the concept of AutoML. One of the first things I'll do after cleaning data and engineering features is setup TPOT on another box and let it run while I continue on with my model building. I wonder at what point the data cleaning

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