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waltherg

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    Comment #37878619

    Great write-up, thank you. Do you have rough measures for what constitutes high/mid/low- dimensional data? And how do you use XGBoost et al for multi-step forecasting, I.e. in scen…

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    Comment #34667622

    OP pointed out that meetings and projects have happened remotely anyways for a long time - an experience I share. The peers you describe aren’t in the same place as yourself even i…

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    Comment #34054083

    Yes, I read this and was thinking therapy from the start. I was never against therapy but finally pulled through and my mood and outlook have improved dramatically over the past si…

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    Comment #28895315

    Come on mate what's with the pessimism. When did the rich upper class of Italy fail to deliver for the remaining 99% of Italy? Oh wait ...

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    Comment #28880808

    Gosh. Did Winterpeg for a year. That was an experience for sure. So long Windypeg.

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    Comment #27174659

    In the south of Italy where I am right now there appears to be a pattern of pre-lunch and pre-dinner rush hour. You get some pretty decent cycling paths along the sea between 1 pm …

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    Comment #27069241

    I thought the point of those ads wasn't that Brave make money but that you accrue those Brave tokens as a representation of your attention and get to send those tokens to publisher…

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    Comment #27068912

    The value proof in the backend that convinces advertisers to throw more many at this? Mostly rule of thumb heuristics with a fair amount of overselling. So no, in most cases the te…

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    Comment #27029425

    This is a great point and way of looking at it: pandas and SQL live at opposite ends of the maturation level of data wrangling pipelines.

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    Comment #26977849

    There's usually entire teams involved in preparing these sorts of decks - from content researchers via subject matter experts to designers. So not a single person needs to believe …

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    Comment #26948878

    So, essentially, you live in Italy where traffic signs and lights are nothing more than street art and some extra frills on the side of the road.

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    Comment #25384862

    Mice are really into cheese - hence become a mouse to avoid Alzheimer's later in life.

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    Comment #25018188

    I don't doubt that marketing works but always had a feeling that a lot of it is busy work (e.g. reorganizing AdWords campaign structures every couple of weeks for no apparent reaso…

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    Comment #25018077

    I'm intrigued by what you wrote about CNAME records. Could you elaborate on that briefly?

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    Comment #24891461

    I usually have at least some broad, high level understanding of what tech outside my narrow scope looks like. Reading the comments here I have zero clue what you're talking about. …

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    Comment #24852392

    German here. The latter statement doesn't really hold for us. Super patchy coverage on trains.

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    Comment #24467886

    The - to my mind - most absurd version of this was a well-known Swedish fintech I interviewed with where the one barrier they had set up was one of those online IQ tests (rotating,…

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    Comment #23607203

    I've heard two C-level guys with two separate German SMEs say that the only part of their workforce that hadn't handled remote work well was middle management. The people doing the…

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    Comment #23593796

    Lots of loose ends still and nothing noteworthy to the extend that others are posting on here. But I finally got around to reading up on a topic I've been curious about (causality …

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    Comment #23537208

    Been there so many times. I've been kicked off a project because I couldn't stop talking about training data (they already had) and machine learning algorithms (NLP, text classific…

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    Comment #23537184

    Any chance at sharing what consulting company put the AI play idea in your CEO's head?

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    Comment #23474545

    Hi to anyone reading this. This is my first attempt at describing applications of causal inference in the context of possible industrial applications. I started this article becaus…

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    Comment #17322634

    Since you’re here, what does the following property stand for in your second paper? s ∈ AifM(s)/gec