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Right. The author finds 100% of the time for his current dataset but makes a statement that implies some certainty or inference on future cases. Like taking 100 men, 100 women and …

Question to spark discussion and for me to fill potential gaps in my knowledge, not to criticize the article as I very much appreciate the transparency and build-up from the simple…

This is probably a good place to start: https://stripe.com/blog/teaching-employees-to-code Blog was posted early enough to have a high likelihood of response if you ping the author…

Sort of related but not about the main site being down: search crashes way more often than I expected it would for such a popular site. I read an AMA by the CEO that said they're r…

The honesty in this post is really refreshing and insightful. There are a lot of people in tech who would kill to be in your position (see every monthly-ish thread about how to mak…

On the topic of raising/burning $: I remember seeing that they had a position open for a software engineering role. If I remember the job description correctly, they've built out t…

It's now the end of my engineering and I am now occupied with the thoughts of what my life had been if I would have chosen the road not taken. Isn't it equally as likely that in th…

I'm OK with these kinds of quirky add-on allowances so long as the category for the add-on is positive, either for you as a person (e.g.: fitness, learning) or the local community …

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Allowance Fresh, organic, local fruits and vegetables are great to have on-hand, so we'd also like to offer a CSA membership to you. Finding a…

I was in a similar spot. Studied Math/Stats, and my friends were not in tech. I've made some now, but still don't have many really good friends in tech. It seems studying CS can be…

You only mentioned Foursquare as one of the companies you've applied to, so without more info from you I'm going to take a shot in the dark here: are you only applying for those ty…

You are right to think that there is a correlation between previous salaries and difficulty in finding jobs. In an ideal world, if your true worth is $X/year but you're willing to …

You are a programmer.

Other than the mentioned advice of going to office hours with a purpose, I would say a golden way to get your professor's attention is to read their papers (select the top k most c…

The answer to your question all depends on exactly what kind of jobs you are even remotely interested in? In general it's best to compound your current skills and not go in a compl…

I am only a mere MSc Statistics student in a Canadian university, but from my perspective, if you are succeeding as a physics PhD in a tough and respected program, then you are mor…

I don't agree with this article mainly because one's passion for anything in life is dynamic. It starts and stops at points in your life that you can't anticipate. I didn't know an…

Tangentially related, does anyone here use their APIs? I started playing around with their Earth API ( https://api.nasa.gov/api.html#earth ) but ran into a bug that turns out to ha…

Hey, thanks for letting me know - I thought filling in the e-mail field made it visible to everyone on my profile. Sending you an e-mail now.

We have a class that we want to migrate away from Kaggle's academic platform for various reasons. Through a chance connection in our network, a startup was happy to let us use thei…

Anytime I find myself thinking like this, I use this reminder: the only thing separating myself from being one of those people is actually doing it (whatever "it" is). It's psychol…

I'm a longtime lurker - consistent advice seems to be that one should 1) identify a need 2) build an MVP 3) reach out for feedback from users 4) iterate from there I'm done step 1 …

not too long ago I attended a talk by Thomas Hales (proved the Honeycomb conjecture and the Kepler conjecture) where he talked in detail about his Flyspeck project, which he says h…