j_b_s

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Fireflies (2017)(ncase.me)
196 points by j_b_s 7y ago|23 comments
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by j_b_s 7y ago
better than planned uncontrolled burns
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by j_b_s 7y ago
DeLillo may not believe it, but I do. From the start of the interview: "INTERVIEWER: Do you have any idea what made you a writer? DON DeLillo: I have an idea but I’m not sure I believe it. Maybe I wanted to learn how to think. Writing
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by j_b_s 7y ago
Don't hate the player...Game on!
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by j_b_s 7y ago
In a previous life, I became a scuba instructor that kept me in the latest dive gear. (This was along side working towards a Ph.D.) Eventually it burned me out -- instructing is a stressful "service" gig; and it turned me off of d
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by j_b_s 7y ago
It'll help with re-sale (still 22 years to go!) - one likely outcome before you kick it.
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by j_b_s 8y ago
"...keeps publishing biased articles about the drawbacks of doing a PhD" I think that startups have a lot more interesting and important things to do than support or promote hit pieces on PhDs and academia life.
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by j_b_s 8y ago
Bay area (Emeryville and East Bay are pretty interesting, in addition to South SF), and Research Triangle Park (North Carolina). Seattle a bit.
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by j_b_s 8y ago
I built a little tool to audit objects in your R pipeline here: https://jabustyerman.com/2017/09/29/auditing-your-r-data-pip... This basically allows you to tag (wrap) intermediate functions in your pipe, and
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by j_b_s 8y ago
Curious to know why you landed on snakemake for bioinformatics? Were you considering other workflow engines?
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by j_b_s 8y ago
Nice! Look into tufte style class for book layouts. It's particular and if you like that type of particular then you'll love it.
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by j_b_s 8y ago
You can present to people, or be present to people. Sales would be much better if it was much more of the latter.
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by j_b_s 8y ago
Ira Glass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2wLP0izeJE This guy is perfect.
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by j_b_s 8y ago
Completely agree. From the article: "It's all about the amount of glucose, or sugar, in the plant," Lavine said. "Rice plants with higher glucose levels are older and dying. That increase in glucose causes adolescent bro
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by j_b_s 8y ago
The Invisibility Cloak by Ge Fei (2016). Chinese author and setting (contemporary Beijing). Following the theme of the solitary male antihero...a la Murakami.
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by j_b_s 9y ago
We don't want to do it unless it's going to move the needle.
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by j_b_s 9y ago
Nope! Base R works great. Old-school vi to edit scripts, and R base installation to run them (or REPL around). Of course, the IDEs do offer a lot of support, and RStudio is great for making your R functions into packages that are easy to sh
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by j_b_s 10y ago
What service do you use for options trading? (would you recommend them?)
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by j_b_s 12y ago
cycling through 1936 - 1945 (year by year) is pretty interesting.