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I guess traditionally ‘middle class’ referred to the type of occupation (e.g. non-manual) which was typically associated with being better off. But it’s not obvious that the standa…

I think some perspective is missing if you’re describing this as “pushing anyone down that attempts to break into the middle class” when the cutoff points (when the step changes oc…

If you write the R code using vectorised operations it’s significant orders of magnitude faster (148 seconds to 1.5 milliseconds on posit.cloud). The nested loop becomes: j <- sum(…

A large number of statistical packages in R make use of C++ for their core algorithms. See here, for example: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Rcpp/index.html

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Just to pick one example, do you see something like state-imposed food standards as a 'hurdle' added by bureaucrats? What about housing construction standards? One person's hurdle …

If you want to sell in two different countries don’t you have to comply with two different legal codes and support both of them?

How does the PM know better than devs about whether or not they’re bringing the right information and not inadvertently summarising something incorrectly that’s technically importa…

Surely the context for the time series matters? Not sure good outcomes will follow from people blindly applying black boxes.

And if the revenue tanked would you accept half your salary, say, or would you expect a floor to be applied?

But without some statistical knowledge, isn’t there a risk of a lack of understanding about the robustness of “what works”?

Why would you not want business people to understand the technical constraints? Maybe easier in the short term to make the decision for them but longer term that just builds up bar…

Worth looking through here and related links: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/04/19/fatal-flaw...