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'mjwhansen founded the Small Software Business Alliance specifically to work on this issue: https://ssballiance.org/

Seems like the existing user base, reviews, and lists were the main source of value. I don't want to be "that guy" but I'm curious what made it so hard to rewrite some or all of th…

This guy is a straight-shooter with upper-management written all over him.

Technical people love parliamentary procedure because it notionally resolves messy human deliberation into a linear call stack with system interrupts. The important thing to unders…

Fascinating. Have you written about your experience there?

Have you looked at RocksDB? http://rocksdb.org/

DrivenData Labs | Data Scientist and Senior Data Scientist | Berkeley, CA / Boston, MA / Denver, CO | REMOTE | Full-time We run online machine learning challenges with social/scien…

Sounds like you're looking more for optimization theory, but if you want a gentle introduction to applications with approachable math and lots of examples, I highly recommend "Oper…

As far as storing a human readable version for code reviews and diffs, we use nbautoexport for this - https://nbautoexport.drivendata.org/ - which automatically exports plain text …

I think the user vs. product dichotomy is not right in this case. Microsoft really does make its money on products and support. You can see this on their public filings. The releva…

DrivenData Labs | Data Scientist and Software Engineer | Berkeley, CA / Boston, MA / Denver, CO | REMOTE currently, ONSITE likely | Full-time We run online machine learning challen…

Yes, the primary specification was a linear probability model for the likelihood of a binary dependent variable conditioned on two binary input variables. As far as I could tell, t…

There were some stunning claims being made on Twitter last month based on a recently published study. Instantly skeptical, I dug into the methodology section and found this gem: "I…

Lower compensation than private sector is not specific to the military. It is true of most government positions. Typical offsetting factors that rational agents weigh include pensi…

> See the comment above: “I'm not even sure what to recommend for developing good software judgment and habits.“. It’s like a chess coach admonishing their subject to simply “think…

Seconding this comment. Based on experience in hiring data scientists and comparing notes with many others that hire data scientists, the most frequent gaps in knowledge are (1) st…

I randomly picked de Hartog's "The Captain" off the shelf while wandering through the stacks at my local library last year. It was a wonderful read, and the experience was a valuab…

I'm honestly curious, what could make one loathe SSC? Overall it seems pretty anodyne even if you're not into the whole rationalist milieu.

The standard whatever.fit(X, y) isn't very appealing but there are much more bespoke models that require creative engagement with stats/CS knowledge, e.g. Bayesian hierarchical mod…

You can see the monthly rates here: https://militarypay.defense.gov/Pay/Special-and-Incentive-Pa...

One minute of latitude for those wondering how this works.