StClaire

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Ask HN: How do I get out of data science?
10 points by StClaire 6y ago|6 comments
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by StClaire 6y ago
Two books about economic development that I love: Why Nations Fail by Acemoglu and Robinson Poor Economics by Banerjee and Duflo The first deals with why nations stay poor, the second covers how the poor in the third world live and how
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by StClaire 6y ago
There is. When the Fed buys bonds they get the coupon payments for those bonds and they can wipe the money off the books then if they want. They can also sell the underlying bond if they want to remove the cash from the economy immediately.
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by StClaire 7y ago
Denver has these, you can see them on Larimer and Market street in LoDo. Around the 1890s, the locals dug out a series of tunnels through the city. The snows would come in and people would just go underground for a few days for business. Th
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by StClaire 7y ago
I was in the same boat in 2014. I went a more traditional route by getting a degree in statistics and doing as much machine learning as my professors could stand (they went from groaning about machine learning to downright giddy over those
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by StClaire 8y ago
I've seen a couple comments about Arthur Andersen, Enron, and Accenture in this thread and I just want to detail everything that went down in that situation. Full Disclosure: I recently left a position with one of Accenture's subs
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by StClaire 8y ago
The author jumped from an experiment he did which suggests that our brains can't pull different objects from our memories at the same time to "There is no unconscious thought." I think he needs stronger evidence
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by StClaire 8y ago
Could tech companies charge a penny and take it out of employees paychecks?
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by StClaire 8y ago
I've known a couple consultants at Accenture who started their careers in audit, but I don't know how common switching is
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by StClaire 8y ago
If anyone should have known about Enron, it was McKinsey. They were all through that place, Arthur Andersen just looked at the financial reports. AA collapsed and the government went after them, but the Supreme Court vacated AA's convi
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by StClaire 9y ago
As an aside, I've always wanted to read a this book on the cultural origins of Frankenstein. The shift in climate, advances in medicine and science, the decline in alchemy, treatment of women, etc. I've read a lot of different wor
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by StClaire 9y ago
I'm that mythical fan who watches full games for teams I don't root for—especially in basketball—but I don't watch ESPN unless they show a good game that I want to see. They show endless hours of Sports Center—how much can yo
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by StClaire 9y ago
Images. Brain scans. Mammograms. Eye scans. Patient history would help too. (I know there's HIPPA to comply with, but as much as we can get can help train better classifiers.)
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by StClaire 9y ago
Project: I'm implementing several machine learning algorithms in (near) base-python. I've almost finished the Naive Bayes classifier, then on to decision trees (and boosting and random forests come almost free from that), linear a
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My Nephew vs. Machine Learning(medium.com)
2 points by StClaire 9y ago|0 comments
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by StClaire 9y ago
Hopefully, we can eventually cut down on fees with those mutual funds too. You don't have to worry so much about algorithm engaging in insider trading or some other securities fraud. The auditors just have to look at the algorithm&#x27
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by StClaire 9y ago
There's a metaphor for life in there somewhere
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MD Anderson Cancer Center’s IBM Watson project fails, and so did the journalism(healthnewsreview.org)
3 points by StClaire 9y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What makes junior developers stand out?
2 points by StClaire 9y ago|1 comments
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by StClaire 9y ago
Uber needs roads. Uber does damage to roads. Uber should help pay for the roads.
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by StClaire 10y ago
He was as nice of a guy as he portrayed on TV My mom met him. She worked PR for the United Way in Pittsburgh and did a favor for someone at PBS. They asked what they could do in return and she said she wanted to meet Mr Rogers. They had a w
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by StClaire 10y ago
I respected Uber when they started for pushing against bs regulations like, "you're drivers need to belong to a taxi union," or "stay away from airports." But why screw with taxes? They won't win that fight. Wh
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by StClaire 10y ago
I had a neighbor who worked for the patent office. He worked on LCD screens for Samsung and some other manufacturers. He told me the patent office needs 2-3 years to grant the patent but the lifespan of the product is around 18 months. So,
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by StClaire 10y ago
My freshman year of college I took a Polish literature seminar and I had to give a presentation on the Foucault and the body applied to a short story I hadn't read from The Street of Crocodiles . An important thought crashed into my h
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by StClaire 10y ago
Education bias suffers insane bias. I've never seen a study (though I'm sure there are some) where the researchers rejected the teaching techniques they advocated. Specific Example: I've been in flipped classrooms. They suck.
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by StClaire 10y ago
I did Pomodoros all the time before I really started programming. Now I just like to lock into a flow and work until I can't or I get frustrated debugging and take a break
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by StClaire 10y ago
I got two things confused. They had secret arbitration as part of the Chancery court and but apparently it was shut down by the federal courts Thanks for pointing that out http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-03-24&#x2F
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by StClaire 10y ago
Fun thing about Delaware: they have an equity court run by the state that functions as a secret arbitration panel. But instead of ruling in line with the law, they rule in line with what's deemed "fair," hence the name "
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by StClaire 10y ago
Yes. We moved away from Fortran, Cobol, and Basic when something better came along. Eventually we'll move away from Javascript too. Maybe it will be a language that spits Javascript, maybe it will be a language that runs on Chrome and
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by StClaire 10y ago
Kaiser of Kaiser Permanente started out making ships during WW2

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