scottedwards

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   by scottedwards 2y ago

   care to share anything here? I think many would be interested. Maybe just a link to something?
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   by scottedwards 2y ago

   I feel your pain. I was lucky enough to be around to enjoy the days when the ONLY place online where people were discussing serious topics (and non-serious ones!) was USENET (and maybe The Well). Google Groups just started to throw a web i
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   by scottedwards 3y ago

   yeah agree, plus not sure I believe that poverty reduces ambition
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   by scottedwards 11y ago

   Are you saying that people on disability get a housing allowance in addition to the $908 a month and food stamps? That's news to me.
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   by scottedwards 12y ago

   Thanks, this was exactly the kind of finding i was asking for. So, at least at this stage of life, sounds like majority of your cohort is still employed. I wonder if that will hold up ten years from now. I guess what I'm really worri
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   by scottedwards 12y ago

   Thanks for the insights, but what I'm really curious about is what happened to the older devs that DIDN'T go into management? Given that you say "whats left" doesn't include anyone over 45, where did those guys go?
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   by scottedwards 12y ago

   Would he be "over it" if he hadn't saved for retirement? Why did they let him go? Was he not contributing at the same level as before?
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   by scottedwards 12y ago

   These are well-established companies founded decades ago. if they were startups, I'd understand...
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   by scottedwards 12y ago

   not sure I follow...
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    by scottedwards 12y ago

    Thanks for this story - always great to hear about a real experience. This is very disturbing. What the heck does "fresh face" mean? Did he have any idea what they meant, or were they just looking to cut costs and hire a more j
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    by scottedwards 12y ago

    I assume I'll still be working, but when I look around and see how few people at these large, established companies are in their 50s/60s, I get a little nervous to be honest...
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    by scottedwards 12y ago

    Good point, but I'm seeing this phenomena in ALL jobs at these companies - and both have been around for over 30 years. There just aren't alot of older people around - where did they GO?
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    by scottedwards 12y ago

    These aren't SF startups (see above). I see plenty of 30's and quite a few 40's, but where are all the 50's and 60's? These days I don't think many are passing away at that age, right?
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    by scottedwards 12y ago

    Interesting - maybe it varies by industry. What industry are you in? These two companies are in telecom and software. I don't think many people in the US are retiring at 50 though - maybe in Europe ;-)
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    by scottedwards 12y ago

    Thanks for your comments guys, but if this is true, why don't I see more workers in their 40s, 50s, and 60s around? (and I'm not specifically speaking of devs, although the effect seems more drastic there). And I don't work a
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    Ask HN: Where do older workers go that don't become managers or specialists?

    23 points by scottedwards 12y ago|29 comments
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    by scottedwards 13y ago

    Just checked out Mitchell's site. Looks like he's been working on a 2nd ed for awhile. he should just open-source the first one since it's so old. But I found he just released all the vids from a ML class he gave in 2011 - wonder if they
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    by scottedwards 13y ago

    Have to agree. And it's very inexpensive because Yaser refused to give-in to academic publishers, who would've charged the typical $70-80, and self-published so he could offer it for less than half the cost. Not only is the book great, but
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    by scottedwards 13y ago

    Thanks, @gtani, great resource. Yeah didn't mean to imply that ML techniques are free of ANY assumptions, just that several of the popular ones like logistic regression don't have distributional assumptions. (actually, I really want to und
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    by scottedwards 13y ago

    Great suggestion. I've been amazed to find out that many coders and amateur "data scientists" don't realize that testing the assumptions is an important part of conducting statistical analyses. Part of this may be due to the recent emphas
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    by scottedwards 13y ago

    Great effort, and I certainly hope more coders will get into statistics (most I know are only interested in machine learning). However, I think your definition of 1.3 "Confidence Interval around the Mean" could be improved. You state: "A