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Honestly, the only way to understand regression is to study something like Mccullagh & Nelders book. Anything else and you are going to have a very hard time really being useful wi…

We've been using phantomjs, but it has it's issues too. I'm not sure there is a good solution anywhere in the open source world unfortunately - and tools like prince are expensive.…

Just so you are aware, flying saucer while nice when you first use it has tonnes of bugs and isn't really being developed these days. You'll find yourself more and more diving into…

B = (X^TX)^(-1)X^TY anyone?

This was our assignment for an AI class many years ago - take USDA and a GA with constraints set by users to generate meal plans. I remember being told to eat a kilo of salt :)

The point is that it shouldn't matter how the person chooses to put their thoughts into the world, they are their thoughts not yours. If they choose to do a private performance (a …

I completely agree - technically. If we invent a technology that allows us to read thoughts, should you be allowed to read them without the thinkers permission? The thinker still h…

Given a real world problem, algorithms or the mathematics behind it do not provide insight on their own. The only value knowledge of the algorithms provide is a general understandi…

That's my point. Algorithms are the domain knowledge of cs.

It wasn't this. The example was trying to show that a lack of knowledge can be catastrophic in terms of productivity for even the gurus. He spent more than six months on this parti…

We once hired a guy with PhD in computer science & he was a (great) lecturer & researcher for many years. We got him to do some "complicated stuff". I'm not going to go further int…

I used to love data mining. Then I formally learned statistics, causal inference, mcmc and other similar methods. I was amazed at how poor the computer science was for anything out…

I find it hard to understand how writing open source software has a strong value proposition for someone who isn't worried about "getting the next job" or "looking good in front of…

With your claimed grades and intellect you could obtain scholarships to almost anywhere of your choosing, fully paid fees + stipend, to work with the greatest minds in your field. …

I still find it weird that people charge an hourly rate. My company has been doing fixed price projects, with changing scope, guaranteed bug fixes & payment on delivery for the las…

Then the gpl is a bad choice for them as a license?

I disagree. He makes two unsupported claims that reek of cargo-culting: "1. The optimal wake feature reduces daytime grogginess only in the sense that it puts you in a better mood …

What is the confidence interval for the size of the effect that wakemate produces on percieved grogginess vs waking without wakemate? What is the size of the effect in the research…

Unreasonable faith in myself to pull it off!

1) I would disagree. The definition of polymath is someone who is an expert at orthogonal subjects. Your definition of expert seems to be slightly lower than mine. My definition wo…

I often help (good) researchers with experimental design and statistical analysis of quasi-experimental data, and it's shocking how little they understand. It pains me to think how…

What would you consider uber-hardcore?

Would be nice to see the fonts rendered

Is there any data that supports this blog posts contention that the best developers are in the UK on tier 1 visa's? If this were true, surely a large portion of the successful uk s…