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To add to this, shamelessly self-promoting, Notebooker ( https://github.com/man-group/notebooker ) is a neat way of scheduling your Jupyter notebooks as parametrisable reports whos…

Alternative data is non-financial data which can be tied to various securities. Financial data, for example, would be EUR USD spot prices. Non-financial data (i.e. "alternative dat…

> But I guess the City of London needs to get their financial "tips" somehow... [Citation needed]

I have used jupytext ( https://github.com/mwouts/jupytext ) for this and it seems to work great - it outputs a separate .py file which is easily diff-able.

Out of interest, why are they scum? Never heard this before about LinkedIn.

This has been the differentiator between Netflix and Amazon Prime - very welcome news indeed. I do wonder how limited the number of allowed downloads will be, though...

This is absolutely fascinating - and stunning that it only took ~90 seconds to be infected. Turns out the source code is... open source: https://github.com/jgamblin/Mirai-Source-Co…

This was surprisingly moving! notch is truly talented.

Not sure I agree with the terminology of the article (fast rather than quickest accelerating), but I thought this quote was special: > Speeds like this offer more Gs than Earth, so…

Still at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, I suppose?

I guess that would be number of developers/machines they were using during development

There are already quite a few similar companies, such as Entrepreneur First ( https://www.joinef.com/ )

The UK economy was/is doing fine? Not sure you read up on all the facts.

>For the Americans out there, this is akin to Trump receiving a 52% majority by US voters (yes, 52% is still a majority, no matter how thin), and then the Electoral College decidin…

One man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter...

Would you count WhatsApp amongst that list of apps?

I would be careful about this. Could definitely be used for bullying by kids - would suggest you come up with a strong mechanism/policy for banning users!

That sounds like it was deliberately orchestrated by AT&T to me...

It's a VR exclusive version of "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" where you are a wizard (and therefore have a wand, too) and explore the Harry Potter universe.

I think people with experience in the field are just annoyed with her poorly-conceived assertions at the end, e.g. "This has got to be some of the worst jargon and notation for any…

Reach == rich?

Would be really interested to know how they cracked these passwords...

I can see the medium post now! "Dynamically typed Python variables considered harmful"