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by randomvectors 7y ago
There is so much variation from company to company within each of those titles that the distinction between them basically doesn't exist. So if you particularly care about the title - apply for jobs with that title.
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by randomvectors 7y ago
It's unlikely they will move out of the market which gives them the most recognition as a brand and accounts for a disproportionately high % of their revenue.
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by randomvectors 7y ago
I use Blank New Tab Page on Chrome - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/blank-new-tab-page... Originally I got it because I noticed that seeing the same few sites on the new tab page influences my browsing
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by randomvectors 7y ago
Is there any conclusive evidence for this?
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by randomvectors 7y ago
Over the last day since you wrote this I opened an account with Tandem, had to start a savings account with them even though I wasn't interested in it, applied for the cashback card, got declined despite of a good credit score, and clo
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by randomvectors 7y ago
Revolut isn't just a prepaid card. What they offer is very similar to Monzo, even if they started out differently. That's why they're competing with each other and it's fair to compare them.
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by randomvectors 7y ago
Yep, that's a massive positive that I forgot to mention. In that space they're competing with Revolut rather than the traditional banks. Many people's setup will be traditional bank for everyday banking + Revolut for travel.
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by randomvectors 7y ago
> Can you top up your HSBC account with a credit card from another bank? A Monzo account is just another bank account. That's a good point. But with the low exchange rate and a modern app, they're also (willingly or not) compet
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by randomvectors 7y ago
This is where they actually bring value right? - Delivering a good banking product outside of the UK. Because as a UK customer I see no reason to switch after trying Monzo for a couple of months. Positives: - a nicer mobile banking app Nega
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by randomvectors 7y ago
> Programmers who write code like this should not be allowed to practice. This is really misplacing the responsibility and shows a lack of understanding about what is actually happening in the industry.
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by randomvectors 7y ago
Yep, you're right, I misunderstood.
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by randomvectors 7y ago
> My disagreement is towards the wording of the part where one may assume a memory is being forever altered or modified and I don’t think that’s how our brains handles storage. The majority of cognitive neuroscience disagrees with you. D
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by randomvectors 7y ago
> The brain doesn't know to overlap memories by some hidden timestamp of oh these both happened at the same time! It kind of does. Each time you recollect something you change the memory of the event (this is also mentioned in the a
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by randomvectors 7y ago
Any reasons for this? Not knowing too much about the space, I would say the exact opposite - consumer desktop apps are less and less likely to succeed while enterprise and industry-specific ones still have a place.
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by randomvectors 7y ago
What would you like to see in the better version of Python?
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by randomvectors 7y ago
I don't think that OP is comparing Rust and Go. Just pointing out how with Go there is a list of points of criticism that are frequently brought up, and he's asking if there are pain points that can be raised up in a similar way w
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by randomvectors 7y ago
Khan Academy has content all the way up to multivariable calculus and differential equations. And for more advanced material than that you'll need textbooks anyway.
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by randomvectors 7y ago
Kudos to you. Speaking as someone who has taken their eyesight for granted, it's absolutely incredible that anyone can do this at all.
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by randomvectors 7y ago
> You mean like keras? or tensorflow? Or base random forest. You know, like the original Breiman implementation. > ... > Since we're moving some big applications to keras/ TF we do use python and will be using more in the
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by randomvectors 7y ago
> built-in dataframe support Not an advantage if you ask me - exactly because data.frame is built in, people have been building their own versions (tibble, data.table) instead of improving it. That's how R ended up with 3 different
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by randomvectors 7y ago
Not sure how that's relevant. Everything is written in something else. Python itself is written in C. The Julia github repo shows Julia 68.2%, C 16.3%, C++ 10.4%, Scheme 3.2%. R is a mix of C, C++, R and some Fortran I think...
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by randomvectors 7y ago
SAS is still used by companies who don't want to use open source tools and would rather pay a lot of money for an established product name and have a support line that they can call if anything goes wrong. Understandably, it's slo
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by randomvectors 7y ago
> then maybe ESL or some advance course > A few of my friends work on Data science and they said that maths isn't that important Without the math you won't understand anything in ESL. Which might be okay if the job doesn&#x2
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by randomvectors 7y ago
Depends on what you're interested in, your goals and your starting point. You have two main learning lanes: 1. Theory. Math, calculus, linear algebra, probability, statistics, ML algorithms. ISLR is a very good beginner-ish resource th
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by randomvectors 7y ago
Yeaah, to your last thought - without being too cynical, looks like the author wanted to write a beginner data science book but realised that the good beginner data science books are already written (as well as many bad ones).
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by randomvectors 7y ago
I can list a bunch. But the answer depends on a lot of things. 1. Which language? 2. Do you have any background in programming and if yes how much and in which language? Beginners can range from "I don't know what a loop is"
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by randomvectors 7y ago
This just doesn't seem to have a place. 1. It's aimed at beginners. 2. If you're a beginner, you're best off picking one language and sticking with it for a while. 3. There are so many other beginner resources that are m
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by randomvectors 7y ago
So you're telling us not to waste our time with R or Python... but to constantly interop with R and Python?
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by randomvectors 7y ago
> If an industrial grade NN library was written for it Can you give tell us which language and industrial grade NN library you're using? Because from where I'm sitting I see that Python is the only language that gets first grad
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by randomvectors 7y ago
Yep - bank transfers are free and fast, all my bill payments are automated, contactless is everywhere - it's great.

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