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> Statistics is "the practice or science of collecting and analyzing numerical data in large quantities" That's not true. Statistic can analyze data in small quantities you can rea…

Seriously Intel is already struggling after buying Nervana. I went to their shing dig and they were working their butt off to wow the developers who were invited. When I asked for …

Their power cord keep on dying for my macbook 2013. I had a temp iphone and it took over a lot of my texts by redirecting it toward apple's server first. When I got my android back…

You can harvest data and anonymize it. My friend at Google supposedly is doing this via research at Google. I'm not going to say Google care about our privacy as much as Apple but …

Programmers should have a union. Especially the ones that are working in the gaming industry.

It's just statistic. How you collect your data can introduce bias and statistic have a whole range of topics on how to collect data without introducing bias and systematic techniqu…

> anyone have a good strategy? I left the industry for data science. Went back to school and fall in love with statistic. Going to try to get a biostat job. I'm trying to do side p…

More data is better. You can reduce it via PCA one of the many techniques in multivariate statistic. You can do anova to select your predictors. In general you can use a subset of …

Elixir have better syntax because it's familiar. I did play around with Erlang a few time. I really love the comma and period. It really nest and group the function patterns togeth…

No please. I do not want a monopoly in x86. Intel is very greedy in their cpu prices. Their consumer cpu never gave the option of ecc memory and have gimp certain things. AMD was m…

Uh... pretty close knit. There were no search engines. There were only directories with dedication toward search hobby/interesting. I was pretty big into anime fanfic so anipike wa…

I tried reading Pearl once. I couldn't get over his tone. Andrew Gelman summarize it pretty nicely his take on it. Coming from a statistic background, casual inference is a growing…

> averages Hide too much. I had to read the article because of your comment. You're wrong. When competent researchers talk about salary/income they always do median because average…

Considering they sold most of their hardware department, such as harddrive to Hitachi and thinkpad to Lenovo, and went focusing on patents, this is a change in their image. I had t…

WeHarvest what is their product? Soylent green?

I dislike coding in javascript for large project. The language was originally for small stuff. NodeJS bought it to backend and the language itself weren't meant for it. Since then …

I don't know if you're joking or not but: Medicaid only help the poorest. You need to be at a certain income to get it. I am a graduate student that is currently on it. Medicare-fo…

Mastodon is just twitter. I'm on it... unless I'm missing something. It doesn't completely replace it at all and missing a lot of functionalities that FB have. The ones being, chat…

> Nobody cares how long it takes to train a model. That's a reckless generalization. I care. My thesis would take forever if I didn't do any optimization. Also my data is 20 rows w…

Most machine learning algorithms that aren't statistical base doesn't give a CI. From a statistical stand point it doesn't give a sense of how good your prediction is. You can get …

> That's just marketing speak. Pretty sure it was the initial thinking when Neural Network was created and it have move beyond that. I think people who know surface level only repe…

> "it is good enough that I can rely on it?" It's called longitudinal analysis or survival analysis, depending on the question being asked. We statistician got test and models for …

I remember using Sabayon Linux way in the early days it came with or probably I tweaked it with Compiz and Beryl. The ATI drivers were something. So bleeding edge distro that it wa…

I've been through netscape, prodigy, aol, and IE5. Mozilla really made the web better during those days as IE5 dominance really stagnant the web scene at the same the current web d…

> The article seems to imply Sandberg approved of anti semetic attacks against Soros, conveniently ignoring the fact that Sandberg (& Zuckerberg) is a Jew herself. That doesn't mea…