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An interesting listen https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/171/ about money laundering and spam in streaming services

Here's a take I did on the same thing where I create "stereo plots" (the cross eyed 3D thing): https://blog.k2h.se/post/stereo-plotting-in-r/ . Quite fascinating

Picking a neighborhood where you are relatively well off seems to usefully calibrate those assumptions. Maybe it has to do with status, which is relative. Earning well and living i…

Or to PowerBI, which will any UUID to a string even in joins. That cast + string comparisons + killing of indexes is not conducive to performant queries...

It seems to me that large parts of the world -are- at war with Russia. And, importantly, we manage to put a lot of pressure on the enemy without getting even more people killed.

Agree! That, and (almost) everything is a vector... Which makes perfect sense for an analytics language. Once I grokked that R became my default language for anything analytics.

That depends on the encoding, does it not? The binary sequence equal to ASCII "Hello world" might well be PII with many different encodings. By accident, of course, but nevertheles…

I believe developers could be particularly good at identifying and communicating all required information from the start. We spend our lives thinking about how to pass information …

As a data scientist, I sometimes find myself going over 64 GB. Of course it all depends on how large data I'm working on. 128 GB RAM helps even with data of "just" 10-15 GB, since …

Somewhat helpful for Shiny stack traces: options(shiny.fullstacktrace = TRUE) You should be prepared to scroll a bit, but you might get the information you're looking for more ofte…

I'm not well rounded enough to draw a clear path from where you are. For me Gelmans Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models [0] drove home many, many poin…

This seems like a young persons fallacy. Why would consumerism be the only reason to drop ambitions? How about acceptance and finding peace? Growing into yourself and seeing your r…

I took a job in a data analytics firm, which had the national Swedish gambling operator as customer. The idea was to predict which players were at risk of developing gambling probl…

Well, Gambling Disorder is a recognized psychological diagnosis in DSM 5[0], so I guess the reader will have to weigh the credibility of the industry's claims vs all the other evid…

Having worked with data analytics in problem gambling for ten years, your dismissal of the addictiveness of these games is either uninformed or rationalized, most likely both. Rece…

I've given Alan Watts The Book to at least five people I thought could use it. Four of them never mentioned it again. I'm marrying the fifth next month.

One answer is by Simon Bennet. See https://vimeo.com/138060217 , in particular 13:10-16:00

As a newly divorced mainstream western person, I might have an anecdotal perspective on this. You don't divorce because of how easy it is. You divorce despite how hard it is. And w…

LaTeX and git. Granted, we're a small company with five people in the tech department, all working the terminal most of the time, so we can choose pretty freely. We're a B2B compan…

> how do you do it? In Capital volume 1, Marx paints the following logical progression. Whether it carries any historical truth, I don't know. (Note: there are many more nuances to…

If you're interested in this, are willing to contrast your view on things, and have the time and stamina for it, I'd recommend you to take read Marx's Capital. In the books, Marx a…