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I've had a great time using DC.js - highly recommended... It's a wrapper around both D3.js and crossfilter.js and makes building linked interactive charts / dashboards really easy.…

crossfilter.js is incredibly useful for building interactive dashboards

He's been posting great Python tutorials on YouTube for years under the same channel name as his username - super impressive

Very cool!

Slack is built on Electron too.

I really don't like the arrogance coming through the writing style, especially given how clear it is the author has at best basic working knowledge of ML. Never mind the fact that …

I think this may have something to do with Jeremy Howard's time as president there - I remember watching a few of his tutorials a couple of years ago when he was still at Kaggle an…

awesome! any guidance on why I might use this rather than Tabula?

I spoke to some Uber drivers in Johannesburg (also insane murder rate) and they said the same thing - things got dangerous when they started having to carry cash. Worst thing is th…

Try switching out svg for canvas...

I threw all of the above plus CNNs at MNIST problem and boosted decision trees outperformed CNNs. Granted if I tuned both perfectly, CNNs probably would have outperformed but with …

I threw all of the above plus CNNs at MNIST problem and boosted decision trees outperformed CNNs. Granted if I tuned both perfectly, CNNs probably would have outperformed but with …

There was a great talk by some AWS guys at the aws re-invent summit on ways to improve accuracy using ideas similar to cross-validation... It's on iTunes - title is: "Getting to gr…

Tabula is great!

Please post details on where to join the slack :)

My back and shoulders have been hurting more and more (I'm only 27!) and it took me way too long to accept that slouching over my laptop was causing it. Putting my laptop on a pile…

Check out d3.js - building a GIS app myself on top of d3 and it's really powerful and runs in the browser. Will have to do the GIS calcs server side and just use d3 to render but t…

You should start with "Introduction to Statistical Learning" which is the baby brother of "Elements of Statistics Learning" (arguably THE reference book) - it's easy to follow and …

Super easy to call R scripts from python - can use rpy2 to send dataframes from R to pandas or can just run an R script that outputs a csv to a folder and then read that in python.…

You don't know what stocks your model is predicting to buy - it's all anonymized using homomorphic encryption

I went to school with Richard and so clearly remember him explaining this to me over coffee less than a year ago when the website had an under-construction style landing page and i…

long live the carry trade