tbjohns

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by tbjohns 12y ago
An important distinction is that the author's experience is mostly with the businessy side of data science, and his jab is at people who use buzzword tools that add complexity rather than simple solutions. In defense of the hype, many
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by tbjohns 12y ago
I originally thought the same. Instead of immigration numbers decreasing during those years, it's possible a lot more people were born in the states relative to the number immigrating then. It turns out, though, that foreign-born pop
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by tbjohns 14y ago
Much better. Thank you!
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by tbjohns 14y ago
Yeah, I'm definitely confused. I don't understand how a car traveling 0 mph can have a finite value on that graph if the y-axis is [energy]/[distance]. I was hoping the units were [Watts][hours]/[minutes] or something to make everything b
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by tbjohns 14y ago
I'm not sure. The y-axis on this graph is just the rate of power consumption. It doesn't do much for you to use minimal energy while traveling 0 mph. Efficiency, in terms on miles/gallon, is always a trade-off between traveling fast enoug
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by tbjohns 14y ago
I like it. For me, the Twitter integration with @NFLScoreBot is the best part. I'm sure there are a lot of issues getting video highlights on the site, but if that were somehow possible and you added a link in each tweet, it'd be something
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by tbjohns 14y ago
Bookmarked it and shared with a few friends. Just don't put too many ads on there, and I'll probably be coming back a few times. Maybe you can make the ads themselves entertaining by scraping the web for the most unusual of those as well...