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This entirely. You can't eat using "good feelings" / "impact" alone.

Genuine curiosity here and trying to temper my own selective memory : does it seem like skepticism is growing on the AI front in the news recently?

This mostly makes me wonder about the varying definitions of NLP. Most business folks I’ve worked with in this field don’t even know the question to ask or prompt- the implementati…

I've personally encountered this quite a bit circling around tech, in most of the cases I've seen it was due to _deeply seated_ insecurity more than anything else. Usually it corre…

Though verbose and somewhat strange at times, one thing I love about SQL is that the query statements read like a set definition from set theory. That declarative nature is pretty …

Skeptical to say the least, only because I think this person would likely get a Nobel Prize if this was proven to the be the case. Bell's theorem is huge in QM, usually introduced …

Company "culture" always makes me a little skeptical, particularly when they're used for hiring decisions. I can't help but think it is just another way to discriminate against fol…

"For the love of God, don't use Feynman lectures to learn physics. That's something you read after you know physics, for relaxation and conceptual stuff..." Agree with this 100%. T…

So some of these graphs remind me of benford’s law, something you see in a lot of number sets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford's_law

What’s so powerful for me is that my old company’s “brand” is exactly this style

I’ve been in a workplace where we supposedly followed this. It was often used as a veil for passive aggressive toxicity. There was a lot wrong with that place, and this certainly i…

That is something I hadn’t thought of before

It is remarkable how frequently “unreasonable effectiveness” is thrown around.

I hadn't thought of this to be honest, but I do faintly remember the IT / Dev team using the "not technically feasible" line a bunch whenever Marketing would come through with stuf…

I saw this a bunch in my next job after Marsh, which was analytics consulting. I'm not sure about Marsh doing this (at least internally), but who knows with Sun.

I worked at Marsh from 2005-2015 in both corporate and the store. We were always skeptical of Sun, the CEOs that would cycle through didn't grasp the basics of grocery, and as an o…

Do you think that some of the hiring practices are out of whack as well? I've heard it claimed that sometimes the government treats hiring as welfare employment programs - which ad…

If only we could use it to travel around the world instantaneously.

Used this to detect tax fraud for a state government and uncover a breach (by poor suppression techniques) of medicaid data. This little law is extraordinarily useful!

This is a relatively small problem - that sure is one ugly red knob on the side. I don't think it jives with the design at all and looks cartoonish. Otherwise, seems like a decent …

Is this sort of analysis technically allowed by Twitter's ToS and Privacy Policy? Don't get me wrong, what you post on social media is public and that's that, but I know there are …

This is great, but think "Probably is in there" should be replaced with "Might be in there".

Surely there's a Chart.ly (or alternatively 314Chart.io) that is in the works somewhere - disrupting this market using tensor flow deep learning networks to produce the best pie ch…

Absolutely agree. This weighting is pointless considering the interdependent nature of the items being weighted.