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by willis77 10y ago
49 books/tutorials/MOOCs in, I was lost. Would I ever learn SQL? Why is learning so easy but finding "top 100" awesome-lists on a topic so hard?! Then, finally, praise Knuth, I found this list with 50 SQL resources. I ca
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by willis77 10y ago
It feels like you are pinning a problem on RStudio that isn't RStudio's fault? A hammer is not a bad tool because it allows you to drive a nail into your own foot.
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by willis77 10y ago
I tried an Ansel Adams photo - "This landscape is good, but it could be great. Let's give it a 7.5/10"
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by willis77 10y ago
People have studied this. While you have to take these theoretical "what if" studies with a grain of salt, some believe that eradicating mosquitos would not affect ecology in a major way: http://www.nature.com/news
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by willis77 10y ago
Let's call the whole thing off
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by willis77 10y ago
We (Kaggle) run a data science jobs board ( https://www.kaggle.com/jobs ) that gets a few data engineer listings from time to time. Not all of these are active, but you may find a few interested companies via - https:/
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by willis77 10y ago
Upvoted from my sensibly balanced Craftsman home while eating crusty artisanal bread and drinking pour-over Blue Bottle coffee before I head to work in my 2012 Volvo XC90 while listening to NPR.
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by willis77 10y ago
Kaggle has a free R/Python/Julia/Jupyter environment with lots of code to browse. See: https://www.kaggle.com/kernels https://www.kaggle.com/datasets
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by willis77 10y ago
Some bikes that are hard to ride no-handed have "notched"/"indexed" headsets that are to blame. Small indentations in the headset prevent minor corrections from actually turning the wheel, making it hard to let go o
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by willis77 11y ago
"Sit down, little Timmy. Grandpa wants to tell you a tale, a tale of yogurt parfait in tiny cups as far as the eye can see, a tale of padded deluxe banquet chairs and Starbucks coffee pods from worn hotel percolators..."
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by willis77 11y ago
Sounds glorious. In the U.S., figuring out taxes is like: Take line 39b, multiply it by your age as determined by worksheet 6689. If you are between 41 and 43 years of age, enter '0'. If you were not subject to the Railroad Act of
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by willis77 11y ago
I'd like to see the mathematicians ascribe an expected value on the bitter, icy glare of your envious colleagues as you eat that sweet victory lunch.
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by willis77 11y ago
It was a joke that nobody found funny. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSxlfLTZu0k
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by willis77 11y ago
Cornell? It's pronounced "colonel" and it's the highest rank in the military.
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by willis77 11y ago
The fact that they haven't implemented a useful ratings sort drives me nuts. http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating....
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by willis77 11y ago
"Oh, him? That's Chuck. He just runs our commits through a minifier and takes credit for the lost lines. Means well, but he's kind of a jerk."
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by willis77 11y ago
"A data scientist is a person who is worse at statistics than a statistician and worse at software engineering than a software engineer." - Me (Data Scientist)
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by willis77 11y ago
In the US our office of tax simplification would also need an oversight committee on tax simplification regulation, an office of tax simplification administrative affairs, a center for tax simplification reform, and an office of tax simplif
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by willis77 11y ago
"It looks like you're trying to write a potato . Would you like help?"
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by willis77 11y ago
Looks like they forgot to test for negative values. I put in -200.00 and it seems to have withdrawn the money from your account without problems ;)
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by willis77 11y ago
If you haven't seen it, Fibonacci Flim Flam is a fun read - https://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/pseudo/fibonacc.htm
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by willis77 11y ago
This problem is tightly coupled with issues of correlation vs causation. In real data, correlation is mostly transitive (there are toy exceptions - https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2014/06/05/when-is-correlatio.
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by willis77 11y ago
This is one of those Calc II problems where it turns out the profit limit as the number of frontrunning funds -> ∞ equals something like e/log(2)
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by willis77 11y ago
If you enjoyed this, don't miss Moritz Hardt's entertaining blog post on Wacky Boosting (linked from the forum thread): http://blog.mrtz.org/2015/03/09/competition.html
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by willis77 11y ago
Hey man, he took those MIT engineers to school. Despite decades of focused dedication to the study of robots, control theory, gait and dynamical systems, they probably never considered just making their robot work more better.
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by willis77 11y ago
Cycling is great for giving an appreciation for what 20-30mph really feels like, without the car disconnect. Same as your sprinting example: go get a bike, find the steepest hill you know of, pedal as fast as you can down the hill (this is
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by willis77 11y ago
It only shows when the trip/meter starts.
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by willis77 11y ago
As a data scientist, I draw inspiration from the infinite depths of understanding. Life is merely the unfolding of a series of recursive recommendation engines, each one AB testing the local gradients of human emotion. You think you are jus
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by willis77 12y ago
He probably fedex overnights them on 32lb bond California Redwood sourced stationary.
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March Mania 2015: Round of 64 Predictions(blog.kaggle.com)
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