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Sort of related, but my epileptic dog has most of his seizures right as he's waking up. Perhaps he's suddenly losing his "protection" as his short waves are disabling.

Hi - I submitted my application to the DS role, but am interested in the applied scientist role as well!

I love Pillars of Earth too, and he has turned it into a series (the Kingbridge series) with the fifth book expected this year. I've read each book and overall enjoyed each, partic…

I have used airflow with two different organizations over the past couple years. When we had a complex orchestration with critical pipelines and enough human-power to manage the sy…

And the esoteric notation!

The fundamentals of actuarial science: probability, time-value of money, and tail-risk have absolutely benefited me. I do gripe that much of the material is out-dated. I sat for al…

One of the most frustrating aspects of the process is that once outside of insurance/insurance-adjacent industries, the credentials are useless. I have my FSA (fellowship of the SO…

I just checked out their website, it's really annoying. Zero information on pricing, you need to create an account to "try for free" to access that information.

I had experience developing automated underwriting models in the insurance industry. As the models are becoming more sophisticated and adapting machine learning, heavier scrutiny i…

Auto-encoders have been more successful in fraud and anomaly detection then supervised methods. For the uninitiated: the basic concept is to reduce the feature space (i.e. the thin…

And the history of every life insurance application an individual filled is collected and shared through a company called MiB[0] to help mitigate fraud. [0]. mib.com

Speculators have shorter windows than retail investors looking to store value for long-terms gains. Owning a non-dividend stock in my retirement fund is not equivalent to speculati…

I have been using ProtonMail for a year now and am very happy with the service.

Thanks for the suggestion. PopOS was not yet created when I purchased mine, it came with Ubuntu 16.04LTS. I used Ubuntu up until a couple months ago and decided to make the switch …

I purchased one about 2 years ago. I am generally happy with purchase, but certainly don't feel like I saved any money. I did need to reinstall the operating system (and have since…

Agreed, it is a little confusing. What makes it even more confusing is bias can be introduced as a regularization technique (to address overfitting) and these are not the same thin…

I haven't read the article thoroughly but I suspect part of the data preprocessing step included centering and standardizing. Those must be the mean weight and height values.