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by flanger 1mo ago
The irony is nearly perfect: an essay warning that AI tells leaders what they want to hear rewrites research until it tells the author what he wants to hear.
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by flanger 1y ago
The founders of Exo ghosted the dev community and went closed-source. Nobody has heard from them. I wish people would stop recommending Exo (a tribute to their marketing) and check out GPUStack instead. Overall another rug pull by the devs
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by flanger 2y ago
How does the $4.5M fine compare to revenue generated by the scam? Unless there is jail time, these fines are just a slap on the wrist, and are often factored into budgets as “costs of doing business”.
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by flanger 2y ago
Amazing book! Also Diaspora! Great mind expanding hard science fiction. Highly recommended!
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by flanger 11y ago
Galvanize, Inc. ( http://www.galvanize.com ) San Francisco, CA | Denver, CO | Seattle, WA We are looking for a data scientists and software engineers with teaching experience to join our instructional team. Practical, industry-bas
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by flanger 11y ago
Galvanize, Inc. ( http://www.galvanize.com ) San Francisco, CA | Denver, CO | Seattle, WA We are looking for a data scientists and software engineers with teaching experience to join our instructional team. Practical, industry-bas
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by flanger 12y ago
Thanks for the mention, Sonali! One of the founders of Zipfian Academy here, happy to answer any questions you might have about the program.
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by flanger 13y ago
For those that are looking for a SF-based data science course that focuses specifically on industry workflows, check out: http://www.zipfianacademy.com/
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The Data Science Mindset(blog.zipfianacademy.com)
4 points by flanger 13y ago|0 comments
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Nutanix OS 3.5 - Elastic Deduplication Engine & Prism UI(nutanix.com)
1 points by flanger 13y ago|0 comments
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by flanger 13y ago
For those looking to make the transition to data science, another option is Zipfian Academy ( http://www.zipfianacademy.com/ ). No PhD required.
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by flanger 13y ago
There is a comprehensive list of online resources that we put together on our blog: http://blog.zipfianacademy.com/post/46864003608/a-practical-...
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by flanger 13y ago
We apologize that it was not more clear on the site, but we do partner with many companies throughout the program who give guest lectures and provide perspectives from the industry. There is also a hiring day where we match candidates with
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by flanger 13y ago
Ryan, co-founder of Zipfian Academy here. Completely agree -- data scientists can spend up to 90% of their time cleaning and getting their data in the proper format for analysis. This, plus the emergence of Hive and Pig as dominant higher-l
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by flanger 14y ago
Platfora is doing some interesting work with interactive, in-memory BI for Hadoop. They essentially do away with the traditional DW/ETL model and create ephemeral in-memory 'lenses' for querying and visualization.
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by flanger 16y ago
I second this -- the Unix System Administration series ( http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/decal/2008-spring/advanced/ ) and the DeCal classes in general were some of the most rewarding classes I took at Cal.
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by flanger 16y ago
Too bad the GPS is still worthless.