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I spent a few years trying to land a job as a data scientist, and now I want to do something different in the tech field. I haven't had luck finding a new position :( I've looked a…

Two books about economic development that I love: Why Nations Fail by Acemoglu and Robinson Poor Economics by Banerjee and Duflo The first deals with why nations stay poor, the sec…

There is. When the Fed buys bonds they get the coupon payments for those bonds and they can wipe the money off the books then if they want. They can also sell the underlying bond i…

Denver has these, you can see them on Larimer and Market street in LoDo. Around the 1890s, the locals dug out a series of tunnels through the city. The snows would come in and peop…

I was in the same boat in 2014. I went a more traditional route by getting a degree in statistics and doing as much machine learning as my professors could stand (they went from gr…

I've seen a couple comments about Arthur Andersen, Enron, and Accenture in this thread and I just want to detail everything that went down in that situation. Full Disclosure: I rec…

The author jumped from an experiment he did which suggests that our brains can't pull different objects from our memories at the same time to "There is no unconscious thought." I t…

Could tech companies charge a penny and take it out of employees paychecks?

I've known a couple consultants at Accenture who started their careers in audit, but I don't know how common switching is

If anyone should have known about Enron, it was McKinsey. They were all through that place, Arthur Andersen just looked at the financial reports. AA collapsed and the government we…

As an aside, I've always wanted to read a this book on the cultural origins of Frankenstein. The shift in climate, advances in medicine and science, the decline in alchemy, treatme…

I'm that mythical fan who watches full games for teams I don't root for—especially in basketball—but I don't watch ESPN unless they show a good game that I want to see. They show e…

Images. Brain scans. Mammograms. Eye scans. Patient history would help too. (I know there's HIPPA to comply with, but as much as we can get can help train better classifiers.)

Project: I'm implementing several machine learning algorithms in (near) base-python. I've almost finished the Naive Bayes classifier, then on to decision trees (and boosting and ra…

Project: I'm implementing several machine learning algorithms in (near) base-python. I've almost finished the Naive Bayes classifier, then on to decision trees (and boosting and ra…

Hopefully, we can eventually cut down on fees with those mutual funds too. You don't have to worry so much about algorithm engaging in insider trading or some other securities frau…

There's a metaphor for life in there somewhere

Me and many other students will graduate soon and we're flooding the market with our job applications. What makes one junior developer stand out from another? The technologies they…

Uber needs roads. Uber does damage to roads. Uber should help pay for the roads.

He was as nice of a guy as he portrayed on TV My mom met him. She worked PR for the United Way in Pittsburgh and did a favor for someone at PBS. They asked what they could do in re…

I respected Uber when they started for pushing against bs regulations like, "you're drivers need to belong to a taxi union," or "stay away from airports." But why screw with taxes?…

I had a neighbor who worked for the patent office. He worked on LCD screens for Samsung and some other manufacturers. He told me the patent office needs 2-3 years to grant the pate…

My freshman year of college I took a Polish literature seminar and I had to give a presentation on the Foucault and the body applied to a short story I hadn't read from The Street …