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Not a fan of abandoning Rstudio notebooks in favor of jupyter i always found them inferior.

I can read, thak you, and no it doesn't. It describes 3 new generics in base R that help their new S7 system. It all seems motivated by better interop with python which is 'neat' b…

I trust the authors immensely but i don't see what yet another class system in R solves. That's on me, but I'd like to understand more of what motivates this effort.

In other words OOP can be great for tooling, but doesn't make much sense for what R is meant to be used for -interactive analysis- in every day work. R's mess of OOP systems works …

Don't look into stremio

I'm an old R user forced to mostly use python because that's what the team uses. R is so much better than python in many areas concerning data pipelines: connecting with external d…

A good DS is one who can understand the problem and tackle it using data, not someone who knows engineering well.

The sooner SQL is phased out in favor of something more akin to Hadley Wickham's dplyr the better. Don't particularly like the syntax of this but it's the right direction.

I work at an ISP. We use Citrix for our VPN...

Everyone assumes things that aren't true, not just "junior" data scientists. There is not standard methodology for non gaussian non independent random variables.

Yeah... No thank you. I mostly look at/work in code

the .rmd is just text. But the output is cached separately, RStudio can load the full notebook, code and output. So it seems to me it's only a matter of how to integrate the .rmd w…

I wonder how the HN crowd feels about H2O.ai

I wish SQL would die as a query language. This is one of the reasons why, writing a query in the syntactic order is counter to how you should reason about getting and shaping your …

They do use that information, it's not necessarilly sketchy. They run analytics just like everyone else. In fact, one could argue Google's huge push for https was primarily motivat…

Cancel culture is real

That quote you chose is as straightforward as it gets.

How about page rank instead of only using number of citations

Mexican here, I agree it's becoming (if not already) a failed state. Only thing holding it together is that not everyone is a pos and that big capitals do like pretending to have a…

Do be hard on yourselves, because the rest of the world isn't so proudly uneducated.

The alternatives aren't US companies, they are NOKIA and Ericsson

How about an evaluation period. People still do that.

An understandable desicion when the US government has been persecuting you for more than a decade.

No, he's absolutely right. And your idealization of 'progressives' is completely laughable.

There's a recent 99% invisible episode about this: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-house-that-came-i...