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This looks really impressive, great to see deep stats libraries in python to compete with R! Are you the author of the project?

Thanks for the pointer to the blog, looks amazing. Bookmarked!

FWIW I wasn't suggesting sticking to one language exclusively, some of the biggest jumps I've made have been caused by exposure to different paradigms. But for beginners I think it…

Here's a link to the book http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/ , you can dl it from that page. Depending on how much stats theory you already know, you might find the labs sections …

We used it at uni a lot but these days I tend to use it as a last mile language. Get the data, format it etc in python/f# then bring in the big R guns. Things like BMA or survival …

For straight up data analysis R over python every time but the flip is python is a better gateway to more mainstream programming (IMO). At the end of the day motivation is the most…

The article pretty neatly avoids any considerations of Britain's history. When she was at the height of her leadership of the West (Victorian period) she had a similar attitude of …

Anecdotally, more difficult mental work causes me to mentally fatigue faster which feels like good evidence against the claim

Confirming source here http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/euro/adoption/index_en.h... There's an interesting question around the fact that the UK has an opt out of the Euro.

I agree that would be a good sign but it's hard to support the claim there was no enemy at hand with a heavily militarized USSR almost next door

I agree that protectionism is normally bad, but the reason that it is bad is that it suppresses competition most of the time. If guelo's argument that Google not being in China fos…