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Red Hat net income is growing pretty consistently though [0]. With this price for debt, IBM could be cash-flow positive on this deal within a couple of years even without any big s…

Solaris by Stanislaw Lem Permutation City by Greg Egan Ubik by Philip K. Dick

Judea Pearl's The Book of Why. Basically Pearl argues that classical statistics completely ignored the concept of causality so far and introduces a complete framework to bring caus…

Yes, I was thinking about the law of small numbers too ! Pretty sure the college with the smallest rate of startup founders is also a small college.

Before jumping to conclusions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_small_numbers Edit: Actual Wikipedia entry = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insensitivity_to_sample_size

In a closed system, hence not the Earth.

I'm surprised to find no mention of Solaris by Stanislaw Lem among the fiction references. In this novel, a whole planet is somehow a living organism, truly alien to human concepti…

My take from this book is that: - scientific knowledge is embedded in some intellectual ether made of underlying hypotheses often not explicitly stated called paradigms - paradigms…

Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond offers an interesting and academically quite solid perspective.

On that topic Harari's Homo Deus is a pretty interesting read. He argues that Humanism is the de facto "new" (2-3 centuries old) religion. Soon to be replace by the celebration of …

Superintelligence, The Idea That Eats Smart People: http://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm

When you sign a legal contract, you are also likely to spend a non-negligible fraction of the contract to lawyers so that they review it thoroughly. Think of the legal costs of fun…

I work for a startup that sells consulting services on the side (software and data science). Sometimes I am asked by clients to do something stupid. E.g. running a clustering algor…

My plan currently allows 5GB of roaming data per month, which under my current consumption pattern (I don't travel much more than a couple of times a month) is plenty.

1. Oligoploly 2. Collusion It's also why phone services are so much more expensive in the US than say France.

Regarding practicals: is there anything more than the overview slides ?

Gradient boosting also often does wonders.

I am wondering how much of this gets to be real-time. Are they computing the difficulty of finding a spot based on Maps/Waze users' live data or using daily/weekly patterns on past…

There are actually two sides of what is referred to as causal inference. Either (a) inferring a causal graph from the data, or (b) given a graph and data, measuring the causal effe…

I would recommend the book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages [0] by scholar Carlotta Perez. She studies longer cycles though …