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I built this game to simulate how different decisions can impact popularity, the economy, and re-election chances for the oval office. Please do not interpret this as any kind of p…

WTF is often wrong, and actually, I don't think your answer in the 2 year old thread is correct

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This. No one is getting released from prison because of this decision. It has been worded in such a way that makes it sound like it will have far more impact, which is of course in…

To be clear, 6,500 is the number of individuals receiving a pardon. The percentage of these 6,500 who will be released from prison? Zero - none of these individuals are currently i…

I was trying to find a thoughtful ranking of the top climate changes issues by searching Google "top environmental issues" Instead, the snippet took me to this blog post: https://w…

Interesting... given that this is actually in use for the Australian Stock Exchange and the Hong Kong Exchanges, this smart contract language could become a major player and contin…

I don't think it's necessarily a good idea to use SQL for everything. If you are constantly inserting records and don't need relational structures, DynamoDB might be a better choic…

Another technique for unsupervised feature selection is Principal Feature Analysis (PFA): http://venom.cs.utsa.edu/dmz/techrep/2007/CS-TR-2007-011.pdf

I use goodreads to keep track of the books I want to read, books I am reading, and books I have read.

Unless you do a masters degree in Data Science, AI, CS, Statistics, or a related field, a masters degree only serves as proof that you are intelligent and work hard. Someone withou…

I am not a lawyer, but I would not. There is a very small chance that you get sued here.

Keep in mind, we have a company called "swissinfo" declaring that Switzerland has the most competitive economy. Bias much?

As I said last time, I have one major qualm about this. There seems to be a confirmatory bias among the academic community that a measure of intellectual success can be found in th…

They tracked everyone, and measured success by the percentage that earned a PhD. So, while Mark and Lady GaGa were tracked, I don't think I saw any statistic that would have associ…

Interesting read, but I have one major qualm about this. There seems to be a confirmatory bias among the academic community that a measure of intellectual success can be found in t…