John D. Cook on math consulting, Python and going solo [audio] • Hacker News Board

Re: John D. Cook on math consulting, Python and going solo [audio]

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Post by doug1001 » Sat, Mar 18, 2017, 2:09 PM UTC

p1esk wrote: post #8

Radim wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Duly noted! In the first episode, I got feedback that people wanted to hear more from me. Perhaps I went too much in the opposite direction here. Converging, slowly :) Btw the aim is 50/50 -- these are not meant to be "interviews".

I'd rather hear more from the creator of Gensim. Has John D. Cook built anything impressive?

well his blog, which he has continuously published on for (at least) the last five years, is certainly impressive.

His posts are practical-minded but also evidence a deep knowledge of the subject matter. The ones on applied probability theory, for instance, are of very high quality.

(i don't know John personally, nor any affiliation with him)

Re: John D. Cook on math consulting, Python and going solo [audio]

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Post by mark_l_watson » Sat, Mar 18, 2017, 2:32 PM UTC

I enjoyed that. I have been reading John's social media posts for a while, and it was good to hear him talk about his business. I also liked the interviewer's style for running the podcast.

Re: John D. Cook on math consulting, Python and going solo [audio]

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Post by learningtool » Sat, Mar 18, 2017, 2:47 PM UTC

I heard only parts of the podcast, what I believe he said: His best tool is emacs, travels about every three months, emphasizes the importance of marketing, get many clients from reading his blog, he doesn't like to be payed with equity, a big program is the refrigerator is always at hand. I didn't hear anything about a concrete project, perhaps because of NDAs, and if you are curious the interviewer/podcaster likes to travel and traves all around the world.

Re: John D. Cook on math consulting, Python and going solo [audio]

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Post by ouid » Sat, Mar 18, 2017, 2:58 PM UTC

Radim wrote: post #4

JabavuAdams wrote: post #3

I was excited to see this, but I found that the interviewer spent too much time talking. I got too frustrated and stopped listening. I want to hear what Cook has to say, and the interviewer is only there to facilitate that. I'd encourage the interviewer to go back over the audio, and measure the amount of time he's talking vs. the amount of time that John Cook is talking. If it's greater than 20% or so, then that's a…

Duly noted! In the first episode, I got feedback that people wanted to hear more from me. Perhaps I went too much in the opposite direction here. Converging, slowly :) Btw the aim is 50/50 -- these are not meant to be "interviews".

If you already have a specific aim for a ratio of you talking to the subject talking, why do you take feedback?

Re: John D. Cook on math consulting, Python and going solo [audio]

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Post by TwoNineFive » Sun, Mar 19, 2017, 2:38 AM UTC

If you actually want people to subscribe to your podcast and listen to it, you need to give them what they need to do that. Put the words "RSS" or "feed" on the page with a link to the feed. Don't make me view the page source to find it, which is what I had to do.

https://rare-technologies.com/comments/feed/