clatan

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by clatan 1y ago
Not a fan of abandoning Rstudio notebooks in favor of jupyter i always found them inferior.
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by clatan 2y ago
I can read, thak you, and no it doesn't. It describes 3 new generics in base R that help their new S7 system. It all seems motivated by better interop with python which is 'neat' but really doesn't seem like a critical
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by clatan 2y ago
I trust the authors immensely but i don't see what yet another class system in R solves. That's on me, but I'd like to understand more of what motivates this effort.
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by clatan 2y ago
In other words OOP can be great for tooling, but doesn't make much sense for what R is meant to be used for -interactive analysis- in every day work. R's mess of OOP systems works great, S3 is "fine" for just dispatching
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by clatan 2y ago
Don't look into stremio
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by clatan 3y ago
I'm an old R user forced to mostly use python because that's what the team uses. R is so much better than python in many areas concerning data pipelines: connecting with external database systems through an unified API, superior d
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by clatan 3y ago
A good DS is one who can understand the problem and tackle it using data, not someone who knows engineering well.
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by clatan 3y ago
The sooner SQL is phased out in favor of something more akin to Hadley Wickham's dplyr the better. Don't particularly like the syntax of this but it's the right direction.
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by clatan 7y ago
I work at an ISP. We use Citrix for our VPN...
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by clatan 7y ago
Everyone assumes things that aren't true, not just "junior" data scientists. There is not standard methodology for non gaussian non independent random variables.
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by clatan 7y ago
Yeah... No thank you. I mostly look at/work in code
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by clatan 7y ago
the .rmd is just text. But the output is cached separately, RStudio can load the full notebook, code and output. So it seems to me it's only a matter of how to integrate the .rmd with the output data so it can be displayed in interface
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by clatan 7y ago
I wonder how the HN crowd feels about H2O.ai
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by clatan 7y ago
I wish SQL would die as a query language. This is one of the reasons why, writing a query in the syntactic order is counter to how you should reason about getting and shaping your data.
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by clatan 7y ago
They do use that information, it's not necessarilly sketchy. They run analytics just like everyone else. In fact, one could argue Google's huge push for https was primarily motivated to deprive service providers of valuable data t
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by clatan 7y ago
Cancel culture is real
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by clatan 7y ago
That quote you chose is as straightforward as it gets.
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by clatan 7y ago
How about page rank instead of only using number of citations
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by clatan 7y ago
Mexican here, I agree it's becoming (if not already) a failed state. Only thing holding it together is that not everyone is a pos and that big capitals do like pretending to have a rule of law.
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by clatan 8y ago
Do be hard on yourselves, because the rest of the world isn't so proudly uneducated.
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by clatan 8y ago
The alternatives aren't US companies, they are NOKIA and Ericsson
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by clatan 8y ago
How about an evaluation period. People still do that.
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by clatan 8y ago
An understandable desicion when the US government has been persecuting you for more than a decade.
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by clatan 8y ago
No, he's absolutely right. And your idealization of 'progressives' is completely laughable.
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by clatan 8y ago
There's a recent 99% invisible episode about this: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-house-that-came-i...
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by clatan 8y ago
Yeah... No. This doesn't solve anything.
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by clatan 8y ago
It's only the best resource it there
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by clatan 8y ago
This is not new however, companies have been trying to find ways to deprive others from data. For example, Google's strong push for https adoption was mostly a play to deprive ISPs from detailed web browsing data.
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by clatan 8y ago
You'll also need a strong background in statistics if you wanna bring value to a company other than "machine learn all the things". I'd even argue that - for data science - it's more important than any ammout of yea
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by clatan 8y ago
There's a lot more stuff to do with ML and make money than ad targeting

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