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SF School Board renames Sanchez Elementary after reading wrong Wikipedia page(youtube.com)
3 points by pskomoroch 6y ago|1 comments
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by pskomoroch 6y ago
This is video of the San Francisco School Board renaming committee making a decision to rename Sanchez Elementary School. They researched the wrong Sanchez. In the Google Sheet of renaming recommendations, they put a Wikipedia link to José
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by pskomoroch 10y ago
Written by a Slack and Microsoft competitor. Teams is still in preview, and the developer platform w/ 3rd party integrations hasn't even launched. https://blogs.office.com/2016/11/02/introducing-micr
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by pskomoroch 10y ago
Good overview, similar to the year in review conclusions here: https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/2016-bots-year-in-review
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by pskomoroch 10y ago
Weird, I hit this exact error 2 weeks ago
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by pskomoroch 11y ago
Isn't it bad form to post email correspondence like this? Will this make founders uncomfortable communicating with you in the future?
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by pskomoroch 13y ago
"90% of the world is using Excel and similar tools to analyze and visualize their data." These types of statements always prompt me to ask "what is the specific problem you are trying to solve?". Replacing Excel? What i
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by pskomoroch 14y ago
If anyone has topics they'd like to hear more about in the talk, post them here and I'll try to cover them.
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by pskomoroch 15y ago
Just to clarify, you have from Friday 11/11 until Monday 11/14 to submit an app (3 days). It doesn't have to use LinkedIn data or APIs, anything that helps veterans is fair game. The judging will be on Nov 29th where celebrity tech judges
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by pskomoroch 15y ago
Here's a link to a few infochimps veterans datasets: http://www.infochimps.com/datasets/veterans-benefits-expendi... http://www.infochimps.com/datasets/national-defense-outlays-... http://www.infochimps.com/datasets/veterans-by-sex-rac
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by pskomoroch 15y ago
Blog post explaining more here: http://blog.linkedin.com/2011/11/07/veterans/ Stay tuned for more links to datasets, APIS, etc.
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LinkedIn Veterans Hackday Competition(veterans2011.linkedin.com)
19 points by pskomoroch 15y ago|2 comments
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by pskomoroch 16y ago
+1 for Driven Developer-Driven Development. This works with small teams where each contributor has a solid track record, or with a group that has worked well together in the past. Open source projects can get by with a few bad apples as l
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by pskomoroch 16y ago
Free sodas freshman year. Chem lab + NaCl + soda machine + Russian roomate.
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by pskomoroch 16y ago
Agreed "Create more value than you capture" (Tim O'Reilly) is the thing to strive for
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by pskomoroch 16y ago
There is a "message" button on each github user page. I just sent this to a few people (including someone who had forked one of my projects and added their S3 keys to a config file): Noticed you have your Amazon S3 keys out in the open on g
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by pskomoroch 16y ago
Glad Russell wrote this up, he has been doing some cool things with Pig, Voldemort, & Ruby lately.
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by pskomoroch 16y ago
LinkedIn - Mountain View, CA I'm hiring a team to help develop a new user-facing Data Product built on top of LinkedIn's massive dataset of 65 million member profiles, connection graph, recommendations, company database, and other rich info
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by pskomoroch 16y ago
+1
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How to harvest Facebook profiles from emails without logging in(petewarden.typepad.com)
55 points by pskomoroch 17y ago|13 comments
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by pskomoroch 17y ago
To get the spirit of many of these techniques with practical examples in python using numpy/scipy check out the book "Machine Learning: An Algorithmic Perspective" by Stephen Marsland. It doesn't have the mathematical depth or proofs found
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by pskomoroch 17y ago
Nice lists, I often recommend these for people who want an introduction to the field: "Mathematical Statistics and Data Analysis" by John A. Rice "All of Statistics: A Concise Course in Statistics" by Larry Wasserman "Pattern Recognition an
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by pskomoroch 17y ago
Full comment (in case link no longer works): "Their children were twin girls. Born over one year ago. Severely premature: 24 weeks gestation. Severely disabled. Require 24-hour nursing care for their entire lives. Cannot eat, and will be on
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by pskomoroch 17y ago
The Analytics Engineering team at LinkedIn is looking for engineers to work on Hadoop, Project Voldemort, and the A/B Platform: http://bit.ly/hadoop-linkedin
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by pskomoroch 17y ago
The real world Lisp/Clojure + Hadoop approach is definitely fun to hear about. Also interesting to see a YCombinator team with 8+ people including a domain expert. Mashing up 4+ messy data sources is tough to do. Very unconventional on m
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by pskomoroch 17y ago
An “in the trenches” interview on building a machine learning application with Rails & Hadoop. During the interview on FlightCaster, Brad describes some of the challenges of working with flight data, statistical approaches for flight pr
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How FlightCaster Squeezes Predictions from Flight Data(datawrangling.com)
88 points by pskomoroch 17y ago|16 comments
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by pskomoroch 17y ago
We're just using a single c1.medium instance for the database right now. Trendingtopics.org is a relatively low traffic, read-only site and most of the reads are for a handful of urls on the front page which can be cached. Also, after proc
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by pskomoroch 17y ago
The live site trendingtopics.org is using MySQL for all 3 million articles and it handles it pretty well with the right indexing, bulk loads, and memcached. I built the initial demo in 10 days, so I choose Rails w/ MySQL mostly for simplic
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by pskomoroch 17y ago
Related blog post here: http://www.cloudera.com/blog/2009/07/31/tracking-trends-with... Full source code on Github: http://github.com/datawrangling/trendingtopics/tree/master Dataset on Amazon Public Data Sets: http://developer.amazonw

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