weissguy

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by weissguy 12y ago
I don't have any insightful macroeconomic explanation to offer. Just my $0.02: if you are complaining about earning $80,000 to sit behind a computer screen and type all day, you are one entitled SOB. There are 10 million people in Ch
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by weissguy 12y ago
The battle between R and NumPy reminds me of the competition between American and Japanese auto manufacturers. Did American car companies successfully play QA catchup in the past 10 years? Probably, and God knows they needed to. Meanwhil
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by weissguy 12y ago
If I ever strike it rich, I swear to god I'm donating $5,000,000 to the cause of reaching total feature parity between the best of R's packages and NumPy/SciPy.
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by weissguy 14y ago
Keep in mind that a couple weeks from now, the Western outcry about this news will die down, but their air will still suck! When I was in Beijing, I felt so terrible for the infants I saw on the streets. My lungs felt worse than ever for
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by weissguy 14y ago
I would think that a multi-level/hierarchical/mixed GLM would be an interesting approach to their data. Multilevel modeling assumes that there is correlation between observations that are inside the same "level". This is in stark comparis
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by weissguy 14y ago
In other news, the sun is still pretty hot!
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by weissguy 15y ago
They might not actually break in half (I was exaggerating), but my point is, when something inevitably happens to any such computing device that sees so much travel tome, there goes at least $150 for a new screen, or worse, $500 + personal
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by weissguy 15y ago
I've used an iPad before and I am totally willing to admit that it is a sexy device. It felt fast and was able to do a lot of useful things. What really convinced me to buy my netbook was the ability to not worry about my computing device.
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by weissguy 15y ago
Did you do a clean install of windows? Mine ran like crap until I did that, plus I doubled the pre-installed RAM to 2GB.
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by weissguy 15y ago
It's an ASUS eeePC 1015PEM. Unfortunately I don't think they sell them anymore. They've since upgraded the processor to an 1.66GHz N550 which performs better on youtube, but I've heard it gets 25% less battery life. Display is 1024 x 600
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by weissguy 15y ago
Before I moved internationally for school, I was concerned I would need a secondary computing device that would have a lot of functionality, a lot of portability, and be cheap enough not to worry about if it, say, dropped out of my backpack