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So sick of these Eurocrats meddling in the market. Why should a private business have to handicap itself to the benefit of its competitors?

Proving my point at the absurdity of this all... No service should be that complicated to shut down that such extreme measures should be required.

It's certainly a lesson learned about who to hire and how to wind things down. I wasn't aware there was any issue until I started seeing these charges keep rolling through and had …

Unfortunately, the guy who actually ran this account fat fingered one of the addresses (name@abc.cm instead of name@abc.com) - so there is no way to access the account, put in a cr…

Pretty much. It was so absurd it was almost funny.

I had a business that used AWS which shutdown over two years ago. I am NOT a developer. I've tried repeatedly to shutdown services on AWS and stop the bleeding. I've contacted supp…

I’ve had multiple high end cars, including a BMW 750 Li and a Porsche 911. My 21 Model Y is hands down my favorite and significantly more reliable.

Unlike new mothers, there is no sound biological reason for fathers to require extended paternity leave. Throughout human history, fathers have had an imperative to provide for the…

Or they just don’t want to… I love my kids but I would prefer work to the tedium of dealing with small children or an infant any day. Most men I know just aren’t wired with the abi…

Warren Buffett's first rule: don't lose money Warren Buffett's second rule: don't forget the first rule There is a good reason the federal government has restricted participation i…

Agreed, but I would reiterate that Kruschke's work is fantastic and very accessible for the non-academic practitioner.

I imagine the prospect of not having to author Maoist style diversity statements and other indignities will be quite a draw. Universities have become inhospitable and intolerant pl…

I second this.

I've used it for a wide variety of search and recommendation problems, albeit not in isolation. In practice, I've found that it is a great way to reduce the size of a search space …

Three years ago my partners and I founded a data science consultancy (see www.vertexintelligence.com), which has grown organically through our networks in the local tech scene in I…

This is a great conceptual introduction to the topic. I've worked on many TDA applications over the past few years and often struggle to explain the concepts to others without adeq…

It's been interesting to see the degree of magical thinking and arbitrary rules that have developed around masks over the past year. I do not doubt for a second that N95 masks will…

As a data scientist, and owner of a data science company, this idea is certainly tempting on the surface but unlikely to be effective or necessary in practice. I feel like in the l…