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by stevesycombacct 2y ago
On the contrary, McKinsey can also service as an abstraction between the customer and AI. The customer gets two layers of removal from any real responsibility for the price of one.
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by stevesycombacct 5y ago
> RedditIsFun This app is now called "rif is fun" due to a trademark licensing dispute.
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by stevesycombacct 5y ago
I've been on both ends of the child thinking that the haircut is completely fine and requires no advance notice, and a month later the same child being terrified and needing to be held down. Honestly, with an adult you would be right,
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by stevesycombacct 5y ago
In a previous life I worked in secured government spaces where personal devices weren't allowed at all, full stop, and the internet was also restricted to prevent access to most web streaming services. If I wanted to listen to music wh
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by stevesycombacct 5y ago
I find that the same issue is made worse when using a service like Instapaper to store content for reading on other devices later. The pull quotes read like an emphasized point, when in fact they're just text I'm about to re-read
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by stevesycombacct 6y ago
> I have no (interesting) problems to solve with [...] In fact, what pushed me into VBA was when $manager thought I would be a good fit to learn it, and gave me the book! I was a lucky case, as the new skills ended up being immediately r
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by stevesycombacct 6y ago
Excel Power Programming with VBA, by John Walkenbach It's what pushed me into programming and eventually data science in other languages, which led to a significant push in my career. That's not to say that you should read this bo
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by stevesycombacct 6y ago
I have a lot of heartburn reading something like this. I spent a decade in government consulting trying to implement anything resembling "data science" or "DevOps" and got repeatedly shut down by higher ups or by random
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by stevesycombacct 6y ago
I can narrow it down to a top 4, if that's permissible. * The Man Who Was Thursday, by GK Chesterton * The Oresteia, by Aeschylus * Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand * The Eye of the World, by Robert Jordan
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by stevesycombacct 6y ago
Overall I prefer Instapaper to Feedly due to the minimalist design and dark mode on mobile. However, there are strong arguments for either one.[0] Additionally, I use Feedly[1] to discover content from sites in an RSS-like system. I find th
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by stevesycombacct 6y ago
A gamified method to learn the base functions of a language. Great idea. I'd buy a Pandas pack.
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by stevesycombacct 6y ago
As an Altair fan, I'm interested in your plans for future versions, if you're free to discuss those. While composing this question I was about to ask if you support VS Code, but I see[0] that you do now. I was also about to ask if
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by stevesycombacct 6y ago
I'm finding that the Daily Mixes, found near the Discover Weekly playlist in the "Made for <user>" part of the app, do a good job of this, and will also include similar music not in your library for discovery In fact, m
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by stevesycombacct 6y ago
They found me on LinkedIn last year and scheduled a sales call, which I agreed to. I'm in consulting, so I need to know about their product in case a client asks for it, or in case I need to recommend their product as a solution to a c
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by stevesycombacct 6y ago
One bit of feedback on "3. Mutating values" The reason that _ = [validations.pop(key) for key in ('executed','filter_type')] is a mutation is because of the .pop() command, which the article didn&
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by stevesycombacct 6y ago
1. Data science, mostly visualization, sometimes as fiction. 2. Only a handful of times, over the past year. The time needed to write and edit can be long. I'm also trying to write a novel. 3. Medium. I'm a writer for a publicatio
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by stevesycombacct 6y ago
The closest service I've found to old-school RSS is Feedly[0], which allows me to subscribe to various news or social media pipelines and group them as I like. [0] https://feedly.com
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by stevesycombacct 6y ago
A "level up" moment in my life was freshman year when a roommate pointed me to DI.fm to explore electronic music streams. The default client to load the stream at the best bitrate was Winamp, which opened me to an entire world of
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by stevesycombacct 6y ago
It's more like 90%. On existing processes, standardizing collection has been nearly impossible unless I promised that it would be easier, it will take less time, and I'll do all the setup. It always takes leadership backing, and i
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by stevesycombacct 6y ago
A significant chunk of my work involves no use of algorithms, statistics, or math. For the most part, my days are filled with one thing: cleaning up data. If more firms took an educated, standardized approach to their data, I would do my jo
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by stevesycombacct 6y ago
See also: Chartmaker Directory- http://chartmaker.visualisingdata.com/
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by stevesycombacct 6y ago
Please, I couldn't find a straightforward configuration to do that
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by stevesycombacct 6y ago
I'm a big fan of Altair and have used it for demos in the past. However, restrictions such as a 5,000-row limit on dataframes and usage only inside notebooks pushes me to other solutions like Plotly.