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dhkxh

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    Comment #20014160

    The more recent but quaint days of desktop programs where clicking on [x] would actually close the program.

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    Comment #20011614

    You can be selective about your work without being a snob.

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    Comment #19991105

    Related question - how many bookmarks do you have and how do you use them? Because for my use I don't see a point of doing anything fancier that Ctrl-D to bookmark and keeping them…

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    Comment #19981258

    Do you have an opinion on life in Germany that you would like to share?

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    Comment #19979795

    This list is so ridiculous that I can't bring myself to do a point-by-point rebuttal.

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    Comment #19978396

    That's not how open source works.

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    Comment #19958681

    This reminds me of Hello Internet recently releasing a special 2-minute episode of their podcast on a wax cylinder - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonograph_cylinder Really diffic…

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    Comment #19958421

    Your title is about inferences, but your text describes a summary, a descriptive statistic or an aggregation - they are very different problems. It's quite straightforward to "find…

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    Comment #19949262

    1. Review your mistakes after each game - lichess.org (which is the best online chess platform by far) has an option to look at your sub-optimal moves at the end of a game and find…

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    Comment #19938700

    There is no good reason to ever use Alteryx over R/Python. But their company is really good at selling to non-technical management.

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    Comment #19937802

    It's truly amazing that we can do this.

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    Comment #19937739

    Not sure why they've grouped together Alteryx and Tableau - they're completely different pieces of software used for completely different purposes. By the time your dataset gets to…

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    Comment #19909767

    > While there is rough agreement that a total of either 31 or 54 people died from blast trauma or Acute Radiation Syndrome (ARS) as a direct result of the Chernobyl disaster (see §…

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    Comment #19907731

    No - the facts don't change just because a large enough number of people disagree.

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    Comment #19903128

    > I’ve found that even trying to really study through books things like number theory, proofs, and integration takes huuuuge time investments. Yep, that's how to do it if you want …

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    Comment #19902058

    My first thought was that the leap from "this app is useful to students" to "prevent school shootings" is huge and this just sounds naive and exaggerated. Then I noticed that the w…

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    Comment #19893487

    I've also been looking around for something interesting to work on which will actually be helpful to other people. And it doesn't doesn't necessarily need to be ML related.

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    Comment #19876347

    There is probably a good parallel between the impact of auto-ML solutions on data science roles and the impact of services like Squarespace on web development roles.