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Mazda is pretty allergic to touchscreens and views them as a safety risk. Environmental controls are physical button and knobs in all models I’ve seen, and even the infotainment fe…

First, the link should probably be to the full report https://www.kaggle.com/nomilk/data-science-language-and-job-... Second, this is data scraped from Australian job listings. So …

In addition to that, I think some lower-paying roles that used to be analysts or BI specialists are increasingly being called Data Scientists. My guess would be if you controlled f…

That is not an accurate description of the book.

There’s some overlap, but vectors are essential to the language. Every type of data in R is a vector. There are no scalars, just vectors of length 1. Instead of dictionaries, it’s …

This. During the period where Uber and Lyft weren't operating in Austin, there were several local alternatives that popped up right away, worked just fine, operated within local re…

If one is working on AI dealing with facial recognition and is oblivious to the potential for bias, and the unethical applications of that technology, at this point in the game, I …

> It's not the job of the AI researcher to solve "social biases" in every field, it's their job to build the AI. "'Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's n…

It’s interesting to see how the definition of “tech company” has expanded. Only one or two of these companies create and sell software or technology. These are startups, maybe, and…

The R ecosystem around cloud services and their APIs still seems immature, so it’s great to see folks working on packages in the space. I’m not 100% sure if this is providing any n…

Not me. I'd take dplyr and related libraries over pandas any day. I've been using pandas for 6 years and I'm still regularly tripped up by parts of its API.

I understand. I believe I pointed that all out my comment above. I wasn't saying that I find the notebooks superior because they allow for rich & dynamic output, but that I find it…

I mean, as a medium for interactive exploration where you might want graphs and widgets or other rich/dynamic output, I still think the notebook is superior. But as a medium for de…

The Jupyter team deserves every accolade they get and more. The console, notebook, and now JupyterLab are some of the key reasons why Python's data ecosystem thrives. I think Jupyt…

Yes, thanks to everyone for keeping it informative and civilized!

I think the constant replies of "Oh there's a way to deal with that." Miss the point. You should keep asking yourself, "Am I fixing a problem that didn't need to be there?" Sometim…

Like I said, I get why the talk is ruffling feathers, and I think it's fair to feel he's being glib or exaggerating; he is. I've also seen Rich and others discuss these point with …

It's a keynote talk, not a panel discussion. Most keynotes are expressions of strong opinions. > The fact that there was an entire slide designated to tearing down a series of vide…

I get why the tone of the talk is ruffling feathers. If I were a serious Haskeller, I think I'd be a little miffed too. But I think it misses the forest for the trees, and I think,…

> There is some basic fundamentals how programming language should work which R just disregards for the sake of being different. So, you can complain that R feels different from la…

> I feel like it does no benefit to the community to simply let it stand just because the person speaking is someone kinda famous. That's not really what's happening. As I explaine…

As someone who really likes Haskell, I've found the response to the talk from Haskellers, like in that thread, really disappointing. The common refrains indicating that Rich doesn'…

Generics can make serialization easier in Haskell, but that's not exactly the point. The point is, once your Haskell program is done with that data, it's getting tossed into a mess…

Agreed that's bad. But then if the transit/messaging/persistence components of your systems are independent of the type system (good), to really use your type system you have to do…