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Hey I'm a data scientist with 5 years of experience building predictive models. I'm trying to start my own side-consulting company specializing in scoping machine learning projects…

Last year around Christmas time I was talking to my wife about what candy I wanted in my stocking. I said something like, "I really like those gold ball candies. I can't remember t…

I think there is a huge risk that the data being collected just isn't meaningful to the problem being asked. For example, if you are trying to predict the weather you'd really like…

Wouldn't you call that a network effect? Uber is only effective if you build up a network of customers. I thought scale meant you could run your service for 1 million users just as…

I feel like all (software-y) business ideas that don't require scale would fall under some form of "consulting". Does anyone disagree with this?

This is how you end up with students who are not prepared for the workforce because they haven't been trained on the tools that businesses actually use. There is nothing ethically …

No it doesn't. In my example the bank loaned out $850k to the first small business and $723k to the second. That's $1,573,000. The bank started with $1million. It absolutely matter…

So the depositor put $1,000,000 in the bank and the bank loans $850,000 to a small business so it can buy more inventory. The small business goes to the widget manufacturer and wri…

He doesn't literally mean country clubs. He is saying that the fed's current policies allow rich corporations (controlled by rich people) to get loans at very low interest rates.

This is an over-simplified view of the market. The market isn't a zero-sum game. It's often in an investor's best interests to publish their research on a position (after they have…

I think this could be fixed by making each job be posted for a fixed block of time, say five minutes. Then it is randomly assigned to one of the shoppers that selected that job. Th…

If my company could lower the cost of its product by half and still make the same yearly revenue, it would. And all the executives would get huge bonuses.

I don't think this is true forever. I've doubled my salary in my first five years in my career through job changes, but I don't think I can do it again. I guess I have one more 20k…

Or you could lower overhead by cutting costs, hiring less people, changing commission structures. The nicest business meal I ever had was during a lunch meeting that I tagged along…

In response to the article about USO: If you wanted to build a financial entity to track oil prices, couldn't you just form a company that just buys a warehouse and stores a large …

It's probably public since he knows their salaries. you can get a hold of most college employee salaries through state ran databases.

I've seen this too. Personally I think both environments are really valuable. I really prefer meeting folks in person, but my home is nicer for hard problems that require concentra…

I think it is wrong to assume that something is inherently bad just because it is addictive.

I've had zero interest in working on personal projects since I've been working from home. I spend 8-9 hours at my desk in my bedroom. The last thing I want to do is spend another h…

Yeah of course, I'm just interested hearing potential paths.

Anyone know your typical steps for this process? I guess your first step is to contact your embassy, then look for a local lawyer, then what comes next?

>I get that the disease is more deadly. But is this one of those cases where it's better to pull hard and rip the band-aid off in one go? Nobody seems to really want to broach this…

I tried Ubuntu for the first time in years last month. At first I was pretty happy with it, but gradually I grew frustrated. Every time I would install a new library in R (statisti…

This is true in all fields. Everyone always over estimates their own profession's impact on the big picture.