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On the contrary, McKinsey can also service as an abstraction between the customer and AI. The customer gets two layers of removal from any real responsibility for the price of one.…

> RedditIsFun This app is now called "rif is fun" due to a trademark licensing dispute.

I've been on both ends of the child thinking that the haircut is completely fine and requires no advance notice, and a month later the same child being terrified and needing to be …

In a previous life I worked in secured government spaces where personal devices weren't allowed at all, full stop, and the internet was also restricted to prevent access to most we…

I find that the same issue is made worse when using a service like Instapaper to store content for reading on other devices later. The pull quotes read like an emphasized point, wh…

> I have no (interesting) problems to solve with [...] In fact, what pushed me into VBA was when $manager thought I would be a good fit to learn it, and gave me the book! I was a l…

Excel Power Programming with VBA, by John Walkenbach It's what pushed me into programming and eventually data science in other languages, which led to a significant push in my care…

I have a lot of heartburn reading something like this. I spent a decade in government consulting trying to implement anything resembling "data science" or "DevOps" and got repeated…

I can narrow it down to a top 4, if that's permissible. * The Man Who Was Thursday, by GK Chesterton * The Oresteia, by Aeschylus * Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand * The Eye …

Overall I prefer Instapaper to Feedly due to the minimalist design and dark mode on mobile. However, there are strong arguments for either one.[0] Additionally, I use Feedly[1] to …

A gamified method to learn the base functions of a language. Great idea. I'd buy a Pandas pack.

As an Altair fan, I'm interested in your plans for future versions, if you're free to discuss those. While composing this question I was about to ask if you support VS Code, but I …

I'm finding that the Daily Mixes, found near the Discover Weekly playlist in the "Made for " part of the app, do a good job of this, and will also include similar music not in your…

They found me on LinkedIn last year and scheduled a sales call, which I agreed to. I'm in consulting, so I need to know about their product in case a client asks for it, or in case…

One bit of feedback on "3. Mutating values" The reason that _ = [validations.pop(key) for key in ('executed','filter_type')] is a mutation is because of the .pop() command, which t…

1. Data science, mostly visualization, sometimes as fiction. 2. Only a handful of times, over the past year. The time needed to write and edit can be long. I'm also trying to write…

The closest service I've found to old-school RSS is Feedly[0], which allows me to subscribe to various news or social media pipelines and group them as I like. [0] https://feedly.c…

A "level up" moment in my life was freshman year when a roommate pointed me to DI.fm to explore electronic music streams. The default client to load the stream at the best bitrate …

It's more like 90%. On existing processes, standardizing collection has been nearly impossible unless I promised that it would be easier, it will take less time, and I'll do all th…

A significant chunk of my work involves no use of algorithms, statistics, or math. For the most part, my days are filled with one thing: cleaning up data. If more firms took an edu…

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Please, I couldn't find a straightforward configuration to do that

I'm a big fan of Altair and have used it for demos in the past. However, restrictions such as a 5,000-row limit on dataframes and usage only inside notebooks pushes me to other sol…