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Automated Insights | Software engineer, applied research | Durham, NC | Onsite | Full-time http://automatedinsights.applytojob.com/apply/oMu2ojUP8M/Sof... I'm the tech lead for the…

It's a good idea to follow the links before accusing someone of illegal behavior. Here's the link to the study again: [1]. This is specifically in reference to the reporting on qua…

If you do automated content well, it's not awkward and difficult to read ;) As far as visuals vs prose, I see it as "both-and" rather than "either-or". And in addition to our journ…

I work for Automated Insights, a company that makes a SaaS platform very similar to what's in the article. Here's an example "in the wild" of the content we produce - http://www.th…

Automated Insights | Software engineer, applied research | Durham, NC | Onsite | Full-time http://automatedinsights.applytojob.com/apply/oMu2ojUP8M/Sof... I'm the tech lead for the…

Agreed all around. At the very least, I don't think it was obvious what message the author was trying to convey.

While I definitely agree that advances in ML in the last 20 extremely important (and potentially revolutionary), I think this article misses the mark in a few places. >Now, instead…

Not sure exactly why this was posted today, since spaCy has been around at least a couple years, but - spaCy is a great tool, and I have a ton of respect for Matthew Honnibal, the …

Could you talk more about your phone screens? What criteria are you filtering on? What sorts of questions have you found to be effective at stratifying candidates?

>There is no "fake world" with "fake world" problems You've never met a number theorist.

Seeing an article refer to "AI" as if it's a monolith is a really good indicator of the quality of that article.

>just a theory I think the way you're using the word "theory" here dilutes its technical meaning. More accurate to call it speculation or philosophizing.

Sorry, I might not have been clear about what I meant by "bottom-heavy". I think we actually agree - as someone who's hiring for DS roles right now, I've seen a ton of exactly what…

Call it "the kaggle effect" - once someone defines the problem and the metric you'll be graded on and gives you a relatively clean dataset, "solving the problem" is just as simple …

To be fair, learning statistics is hard for the same reason that doing statistics is hard - any statistic involves assumptions, and the different assumptions underlying different m…

>If data science just becomes a code word for brogramming your way through a set of black-box ML algorithms, then I will welcome the inevitable crash of data science. A fundamental…

http://playground.tensorflow.org/ Pretty much no way to use neural networks (except for playing, like above) without writing code.

Others have made similar points, but I think it bears repeating - Prime is (currently) a clearly inferior offering for music and video. In both cases, their selection isn't even cl…

For many startups, there aren't enough users actually using the interface that a couple employees can't handle it. And the insight gained from those direct interactions is worth th…

Oof this article is atrocious, ill-informed hype. Most of it is so high-level that it's essentially a paraphrase of Wikipedia, with some ridiculously specific details like gradient…

Jupyter and matplotlib aren't designed to actually do any calculation (they are just for communicating results) so it doesn't make sense for them to be written in C. Pandas has a t…

The advantage of Jupyter notebooks over RStudio is having text and code in the same place. Personally, I find that being able to run+modify the code in a textbook is much more info…

Wes's book is definitely the standard. But I would hold off buying one right now - he's currently working on a (much-needed) second edition, coming out next year ( http://wesmckinn…

Is there (or are there plans for) a version of this in Jupyter notebooks?

With a lot of text entry that I tend to do in public - work-related email/Slack, texts to my partner, etc - I get a reasonable amount of privacy by typing vs. speaking. Even if I h…