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One could also say that agriculture changed machine learning via RA Fischer, pioneer of modern statistics - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Fisher#Rothamsted_Exper...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8UePdbDmMw This was one of the keynote speakers at the 2015 IISE National Convention. Nancy Currie was/is works for NASA and has education in Indus…

Mechanical engineers make things, industrial engineers make things better. The discipline started in the 1900s mostly concerned with improving manufacturing efficiency and cost. No…

From my experience, I would offer the generalization that nobody hires mathematicians. Mathematics in society is more of a skill set than a professional title. The most challenging…

Video by CGP Grey on a similar topic - Humans need not apply - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU

an example of this in science - http://xkcd.com/1133/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem

The height vs weight chart is screaming for a linear regression line.

This problem is like Project Euler #1. You don't strictly need to divide. I prefer to skip along the array and put in the new values. n,f,b= 100,3,5 a = [str(i) for i in range(1,n+…

I want to bring up the fact that there is a town in Texas called Canadian [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian,_Texas ], and that is probably where a woman reported the guy. Als…

I think the important distinction is that he is at home in the regular environment. If you are away from home without the family, everything is different; while at home only the ab…

I am having trouble processing some cognitive dissonance when comparing your parable of the "Crazy Egg Enterprise Edition" but then using pricing strategies to take advantage of th…

I have been looking for a job in manufacturing and business operations for a few years now while finishing an MS of Industrial Engineering. If I was only allowed 1 response from th…

My intention of the word introductory was not to feel like training wheels . Joeri in this thread says: >>You have to trade off developer productivity for performance when it comes…

As an amateur hacker and after 275 days of reading Hacker News I feel I can now navigate in the sea of client side Javascript frameworks. With the introduction of this data on web …

I tried LinkedIn Pro as a try free for 30 days . This required a credit card as it will bill you if you forget to cancel. After a week or so, I was unimpressed and canceled. Or I t…

Schrodinger's cat is just like the old school intuition that is subject to errors. It is also why physics may have a better public image than math, due to the higher availability o…

The Revolution: At the turn of the 1900s, the field of mathematics was changing. The old school relied of physical intuition as a means of proof. The new school found that an adher…

I am not proud of its length, a by product of the poor vocabulary that summarizes my skills. Instead I have to list the words that are most likely to be associated with my skills. …

Thanks for that link. It also did remind me of one Australian company [ http://www.biarri.com/about_the_team.shtml ] that I explore from time to time. They seem to offer the most t…

As a graduating student in this field of "industrial_engineer/computer_scientist/mathematician/statistician/economist" I found this story and the rest of the site (not the front pa…

He answers this question fairly concisely in the first section "What I do", the link in the first section [ http://www.the-adam.com/adam/math-4q6/hypersq.htm ], and the second last…