JakeColtman

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   by JakeColtman 10y ago

   This looks really impressive, great to see deep stats libraries in python to compete with R! Are you the author of the project?
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   by JakeColtman 10y ago

   Thanks for the pointer to the blog, looks amazing. Bookmarked!
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   by JakeColtman 10y ago

   FWIW I wasn't suggesting sticking to one language exclusively, some of the biggest jumps I've made have been caused by exposure to different paradigms. But for beginners I think it can be helpful to keep focus in one place. Ther
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   by JakeColtman 10y ago

   Here's a link to the book http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/ , you can dl it from that page. Depending on how much stats theory you already know, you might find the labs sections the most useful. As for the
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   by JakeColtman 10y ago

   We used it at uni a lot but these days I tend to use it as a last mile language. Get the data, format it etc in python/f# then bring in the big R guns. Things like BMA or survival analysis barely exist in python. I have a great R stats
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   by JakeColtman 10y ago

   For straight up data analysis R over python every time but the flip is python is a better gateway to more mainstream programming (IMO). At the end of the day motivation is the most important thing though. It seems likely that R will better
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   by JakeColtman 10y ago

   The article pretty neatly avoids any considerations of Britain's history. When she was at the height of her leadership of the West (Victorian period) she had a similar attitude of being detached from mainland Europe. Disraeli (PM) even
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   by JakeColtman 10y ago

   Anecdotally, more difficult mental work causes me to mentally fatigue faster which feels like good evidence against the claim
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   by JakeColtman 10y ago

   Confirming source here http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/euro/adoption/index_en.h... There's an interesting question around the fact that the UK has an opt out of the Euro.
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    by JakeColtman 10y ago

    I agree that would be a good sign but it's hard to support the claim there was no enemy at hand with a heavily militarized USSR almost next door
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    by JakeColtman 11y ago

    I agree that protectionism is normally bad, but the reason that it is bad is that it suppresses competition most of the time. If guelo's argument that Google not being in China fostered more tech companies in China is correct, then rem