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This is true, but in a lot of instances ignoring variable dependence still produces meaningful results. For example, Naive Bayes on text classification usually performs really well…

It's nice to see this make the headlines, I was at Microsoft M&A group in 2012 when the acquisition became public. Satya has received a lot of praise for the direction Microsoft ha…

I worked for a very early stage startup that ended up getting press from WSJ, TechCrunch, etc but I had no visibility into the process. Can someone who has received similar press c…

I agree with you, but when we are discussing "price", we are not discussing it as a function of profile. We are discussing it as a function of raw skill. If two people (one experie…

> pass on the cheap, low-value projects. Hold out for the clients that have budgets and value your time. Every second you spend with clients that don’t have money and don’t value y…

Loved this and really like Madeon - also worth checking out the Daft Punk equivalent to this/very similar concept: http://www.najle.com/idaft/

This is an excellent article - many of my mentors have guided me not to pursue funding for as long as possible, until I'm cash flow positive, etc and its great to see a discussion …

This reminds me of a study I did on CEOs who came to speak to my university. I found that investing in a company if their CEO was visiting college campuses averaged an annual retur…

Hey Caser, Very interested in applying - are you still accepting applications? I saw the first trip starts this month.

This is very similar, if not the same, technology as Husk Power Systems. HPS had a lot of press around 5 years ago for going to villages in India which grew corn and burning their …

I think the most interesting datasets are within reach but require curation yourself. For example there are extremely powerful scraping libraries in just about every popular langua…

SEEKING WORK Location: Austin, TX Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Temporarily Technologies: Full stack, Machine learning, data science, Angular, AWS, Google App Engine, Python Rés…

Location: Austin, TX Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Temporarily Technologies: Machine learning, data science, Angular, AWS, Google App Engine, Python, (Full stack) Résumé/CV: www…

I've thought about this topic quite a bit, and I don't think the root emotion in many "mean" people is, well...meanness. I think it is a strong desire to control. This desire stems…

This caused the spinning wheel of death on my maxed out MBP...am I alone?

I wrote my senior thesis on a calendar assistant that achieves much of the functionality mentioned here (recommending times/places, auto updates, etc) and lost so much motivation j…

Am I the only one who doesn't think $11M is really going to move the needle for SF OR AirBnB?

Location: Austin, TX Remote: Yes, have experience Willing to relocate: In Spring 2015, yes Technologies: machine learning/information retrieval methods, java, python, matlab Resume…

I found this comment to have an undertone of ignorance. 1) Implying a cluster of 54 countries are all homogeneous, have poor health standard, etc 2) "Struggles to provide any clean…