Adam_O

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by Adam_O 10y ago
That reminds me of an interview i saw a few months ago with one of their main guys: https://charlierose.com/videos/28249
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by Adam_O 10y ago
It's been a while since I last listened to the show, but thinking back, some of my favorite guests were: Bill Murray, Jerry Seinfeld, Jeff Bridges, Martha Stewart, Alec Baldwin, Conan O'Brien, Quentin Tarantino, Brad Garrett, Jess
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by Adam_O 10y ago
Here are two I have been using from time to time: http://sqlzoo.net/wiki/SQL_Tutorial https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/DB/SQL/SelfPaced/info Also, thanks for linking the one in
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by Adam_O 11y ago
I liked the GITS SAC series a lot because of how well they balanced the action plot points with discussion about technology, security, politics and philosophy. Overall I'd struggle to think of another series which strikes that balance
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by Adam_O 11y ago
I saw they ran a small "python for data science" intro course this year on edx, so I figure they're definitely behind using the language in some capacity. https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-python-da
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by Adam_O 11y ago
HHGTG by Stephen Fry... that sounds like a great combination, will have to check it out. In terms of narration, my favorite audio book is The Odyssey, read by Ian McKellen.
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by Adam_O 11y ago
Your reply reminded me of a lecture from an ocw course I'm watching on and off. He covers a bit about infrastructure design and policy choices in that lecture. I thought it was really interesting. https://www.youtube.com&#x2
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by Adam_O 11y ago
Thinking out loud.. the Olympics in 2020 will be a good chance to showcase the country as an attractive destination, not just for tourism. They could loosen their immigration policy to coincide with the timeline. It would still be tricky be
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by Adam_O 11y ago
Fully agree with 1) in a sense that the sciences and the humanities are all around us, in front of us, and it's not 'geek' impulse to try exploring both, it's part of being a rational, fulfilled human being. As for 2), t
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by Adam_O 11y ago
I think about this too sometimes.. TNG in particular had scientifically literate characters and that sort of depth was considered normal, there was no fuss about the big ideas and the knowledge, they just applied it. It is easy to get used
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by Adam_O 11y ago
I have been waiting for this session to begin for a few months now (the course ran just once in 2015). I'm planning to try the exercises in python too after doing them in R, reference material for this exists already: https:/&#x2
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by Adam_O 11y ago
Reading the replies in this thread got me thinking it would be nice if an online course site allowed searching within all the subtitles of all the videos it hosts, and would provide results to all videos containing the searched keyword so y
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by Adam_O 11y ago
thanks, that was enthralling to watch
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by Adam_O 11y ago
My all star lineup would be: The Analytics Edge - https://www.edx.org/course/analytics-edge-mitx-15-071x-0 Design of Computer Programs - https://www.udacity.com/course/design-of-computer-programs--
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by Adam_O 11y ago
From the perspective of a student, most of the good online analytics/data analysis/stats courses use R, so it is hard to get away from it while learning the material. Once you get the base concepts down, switching to python should
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by Adam_O 11y ago
I was watching a talk from Richard Karlgaard [1] recently where he argues you can run a company in either a rough or nurturing manner, but you should not vacillate between the two. He suggests that constantly sending mixed signals to employ
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by Adam_O 11y ago
yes, I was impressed just thinking about how much work and information gathering must have gone into that book.
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by Adam_O 11y ago
Maybe you are right, it is not in the same category as The Selfish Gene. However, I thought the parts about the early history of computing were written very well, as someone who did not know much about it before. I was also thinking that a
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by Adam_O 11y ago
Here are 3 that I particularly liked in the last few years: The Information, James Gleick A Universe from Nothing, Lawrence Krauss Abundance, Peter Diamandis
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by Adam_O 11y ago
A lot of game companies develop their AAAs with PS4/X1 in mind and the PC port is more of an afterthought. Though not the case here, it is usually released up to 6 months after the console version. I believe PC versions of games are of
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by Adam_O 11y ago
Minor side note for the audio-curious.. Neil DeGrasse Tyson's podcast had an episode recently where Bill Nye talked all about the LightSail.. https://soundcloud.com/startalk/cosmic-queries-lightsail-wit...
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by Adam_O 11y ago
I also think that oftentimes I filter the positive stories coming out of China with an 'oh, but they still have that or other thing still going on there, so this feat is less impressive', but that's just creating grounds for
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by Adam_O 11y ago
Agreed, it was a really motivating read. I enjoyed the optimistic (and not too preachy) outlook he has regarding technology just on the horizon, especially in medicine/biotech.
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by Adam_O 11y ago
In my opinion one of the most interesting courses on coursera called Model Thinking had a few segments devoted to this.. https://youtu.be/fna6xW76NYg?list=PLGqc26s6O0E2P2BnK73JWXk4Y...
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by Adam_O 11y ago
He also contributed 2 modules to the recent "Tackling the Challenges of Big Data" online course from MITx. Among other things, he did a very lucid roundup of legacy vs modern db systems.