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> I am genuinely surprised that I am even slightly offended by this... its not a rational choice. Racism is not rational. You feeling offended could have more to do with your own p…

I thought you were asking me a (loaded) question. The advice given was not "never use Python 3 until...", that was a suggested reply to people telling newcomers to go for Python 3.…

You should do whatever makes you happy and productive. So install 2.7 and ignore the people who say 3 is the future (unless you can work better in 3).

It's not an act. LPTHW is my Bible. I retake the courses every Sunday. Saying that I should hop on the Fortran train for stating that even advanced fearless Python users opt for 2.…

It is good advice, because it works. You can give reasonable explanations for Python 3, involving politics, the future, and dead languages, while still having your students be conf…

From LearnPythonTheHardWay.org: > A programmer may try to get you to install Python 3 and learn that. Say, "When all of the Python code on your computer is Python 3, then I'll try …

Thanks for the links to interesting papers. I really liked the Breiman paper. I did not try to qualify either machine learners and statisticians as bad or good, just pointing out a…

I don't think the paper asked for that. Relevant quote: > machine learning is more concerned with making predictions, even if the prediction can not be explained very well (a.k.a. …

For the security people at ad networks: The URL was whatsapops.com, the mobile device was Android latest, the region was The Netherlands. It's not a virus on the device itself: - N…

Working with both statisticians and pure machine learners on the same task, I did notice some tendencies, presuppositions and modus operandi that were different (beyond being a spe…

As we start to use AI/ML for more tasks, the need for model interpretability rises. We expect doctors to explain their gut feelings, much like we expect computer vision models that…

An interesting paper at NIPS aims to combat the lower quality of Turkers with gamification. Instead of yes/no answers they offer a choice of: absolutely sure, yes, don't know, no, …

Thanks for the link to the paper. I think the older criticisms still stand: - They created their own data set. Instead of a general Q-A system, they may have overfit to this partic…

Please change the link. This one serves up a malicious advertisement to mobile users in certain regions (whatsapop browser hijacker with vibration and redirect).

1 - Arrogance is confidence projected outwards (in a way that looks ugly) 2 - People who are arrogant do not ask much questions. Arrogant people are unpleasant to interact with. 3 …