analyticascent

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by analyticascent 6y ago
I appreciate you starting this thread, these are great resources people are posting. Common Crawl is the data set to master if someone wants to use the fruits of web scraping without actually doing the web scraping.
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by analyticascent 6y ago
In a weird way, I think Nintendo's approach is basically "Zero to One" to differentiate from competitors, but doing it with cheaper hardware to reduce costs. I'm not a gamer, but from a business perspective I'm intr
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by analyticascent 6y ago
I'm still more of a Jitsi user ( https://meet.jit.si ), but this post is a great overview of how people have overreacted and not given Zoom credit for taking people's concerns seriously. The list of a dozen things relate
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by analyticascent 6y ago
For the most part, this seems like a good primer on what the territory would be for people entering this space. I feel like the easiest "Hello World" for newbies would be taking a simple full stack app and interfacing Blockstack a
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by analyticascent 6y ago
I use an app that has that as a feature, but I personally never utilize it. The main reason is that each time I take a moment to "think" about how I feel, my mood changes accordingly. In a way it's like a self-inflicted Hawth
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by analyticascent 8y ago
Not at all surprised that Marconi Union made the top cut :-) "Ambient Transmissions Volume 2" is one of the greatest flow state albums I've ever heard: https://marconiunion.bandcamp.com/album/weightless-a
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by analyticascent 8y ago
I'm deeply skeptical of any attempt to sort fact from fiction that is imposed on a user base rather than utilized by choice . Such a thing gives way too much power to the people who make decisions about what qualifies as "true&
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by analyticascent 8y ago
Cases like this (where government is the "consumer" for the technology) make me think surveillance tech could be the law enforcement version of military spending on defense contractors.
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by analyticascent 8y ago
Under what conditions should financial support from people who share an organization's thesis disqualify what that organization has to say on an issue?
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by analyticascent 8y ago
Specifically, they take issue with the government creating demand for surveillance technology. Nothing unusual for a public policy organization that has Cato's perspective.
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by analyticascent 8y ago
Amazing article, I had no idea there was such a huge scientific debate between (somewhat) competing organizations about the impact of various exercise methods, and how one side was caught bending data to the detriment of the other. Hopefull
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by analyticascent 8y ago
Not only that, but using such a short time period would fail to distinguish Medicare expenditure trends and any other method of payment - which is why people look at the last few years of someone's life and whether that jump in costs
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by analyticascent 8y ago
An interesting piece, this is an important discussion point when it comes to international healthcare policy comparisons. I like collecting things like these for a NLP project that outputs variables and methodologies used in a given study.