2018 - Data Science Current

Floor Mouse (2018)

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AUGUST 13, 2023

Update 2018-07-20: my wrists have calmed down some and I'm worried about hurting my knee, so I've switched to mousing lefty but still "clicking" by using keys on the keyboard. Update 2019-11-07: about a year ago I switched to using my laptop full time, with an external monitor.

B t Jobs (2018)

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JUNE 17, 2023

David Graeber B t Jobs A Theory May 15, 2018, originally published. ISBN 978-1-5011-4331-1, ISBN 978-1-5011-4334-2 (ebook); Most names and many.

Write Dumb Code (2018)

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FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The best way you can contribute to an open source project is to remove lines of code from it. We should endeavor to write code that a novice programmer can easily understand without explanation or.

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STAT+: NYU professors who defended vaping didn’t disclose ties to Juul, documents show

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MAY 6, 2024

Abrams, a frequent commentator about vaping in the news media, including CBS This Morning, CNN, and The New Yorker, coordinated extensively with Juul on public messaging in 2017 and 2018, according to company emails.

Comments Are Code (2018)

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MARCH 6, 2024

I hold an unpopular stance: code comments are as important as the code itself. OK, maybe that’s a little overstated, but I maintain that code comments are critical to code readability and maintainability. Before you see if I weigh more than a duck, please hear me out… When I was a college undergrad, I had…

Le Grand K (2018)

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MARCH 4, 2024

Discover Le Grand K in Saint-Cloud, France: The former global standard for the exact mass of one kilogram sits under lock and key outside Paris.

Calendar, Not Todos (2018)

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MAY 11, 2024

Viewing time as space.

Jank-Free Image Loads (2018)

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Eric Portis remembers that images on the web, just like presents under the tree, come in different shapes and sizes. There’s little more disappointing than unwrapping a large-looking gift to find that it’s mostly packaging. Avoid expectation-jank with some great enhancements coming to the web platform soon.

DIY Night Clock Projector (2018)

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DECEMBER 25, 2023

A Clock Projector can project the time to a ceiling in the night. There are lots of commercial alarm clocks with integrated clock projector on the market but I thought, it would be fun to build one myself. Moreover it was a good project for becoming accustomed to the process of 3d-designing cases which can be…

Cautionary Fables for Darwin's Birthday (2018)

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

by Mike Bendzela Tribes In the great class of mammalian vertebrates, antagonism arose between the egg-laying monotremes and the marsupials. Neither side could see the other on its own terms, each insisting it was the True Mammal. An opossum (Didelphis) complained, “The platypus is a shameful pretender! It won’t admit that it is a failed…

The Art of Conducting (2018)

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DECEMBER 16, 2023

[intense_dropcap font_color="primary"]'S [/intense_dropcap]o what's the scoop on this conductor guy?” a friend once asked after I took her to an orchestral

The case against dual axis charts (and what to use instead) (2018)

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MAY 17, 2024

We believe that charts with two different y-axes make it hard for most people to intuitively make right statements about two data series.

The World of Instruction Manuals (2018)

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APRIL 9, 2024

Some user manuals are a frustration, some are a pleasure – and all reveal more about us than we might think.

Threading with Style (2018)

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

No, not multi-threading. I’m talking about Clojure’s threading macros, better known as “the arrows.” ” The -> (“thread-first”) and ->> (“thread-last…

Power to the Data Report: Introduction to Neural Magic

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APRIL 24, 2023

The company was founded in 2018 by Alexander Matveev, a former researcher at MIT, and Nir Shavit, a professor of computer science at MIT. Neural Magic is a startup company that focuses on developing technology that enables deep learning models to run on commodity CPUs rather than specialized hardware like GPUs.

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How do satellites communicate with a GPS system? (2018)

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APRIL 28, 2024

Antennas provide the wireless linkage required for any satellite-based system. Here's a look at the many antennas of GPS.

Visualizing quaternions (2018)

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OCTOBER 27, 2023

Explaining how quaternions, a four-dimensional number system, describe 3d rotation.

The Marvelous Automata of Antiquity (2018)

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Centuries before the computer, whimsical automata pushed the uncanny boundary between human and machine.

How to parent more predictably (2018)

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AUGUST 13, 2023

(As with anything else I write about parenting, this is mostly just my observations with my own two kids and may not generalize as well as I think it does.) A few weeks ago I wrote about why I think it's valuable for parents to be predictable.

First Speakers Announced for Data Natives 2018, The Tech Conference of the Future

Dataconomy

AUGUST 9, 2018

Preparations are well underway for the 2018 edition of Data Natives– the data driven conference of the future, hosted in Dataconomy’s hometown of Berlin. The post First Speakers Announced for Data Natives 2018, The Tech Conference of the Future appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Why are amplitudes complex numbers? (2018)

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FEBRUARY 18, 2024

[By prior agreement, this post will be cross-posted on Microsoft's Q# blog, even though it has nothing to do with the Q# programming language. It does, however, contain many examples that might be fun to implement in Q#!] Why should Nature have been quantum-mechanical? It's totally unclear what would count as an answer to such…

Tetris Randomizers (2018)

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AUGUST 12, 2023

In 1985, Alexey Pajitnov and Vadim Gerasimov released Tetris to the public. This fun and highly addictive game challenged players to fit. Simon Laroche

Paul Buchheit interview (2018)

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

An interview with Gmail creator and partner at YC Combinator, Paul Bucheit. Tagged with interview, google, career, advice.

Playing it over and over again: how Casablanca was made (2018)

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APRIL 17, 2024

For many, Casablanca is not just any old movie but the old movie. When Woody Allen was looking for a heroic exemplar for his nebbish cineaste in Play it Again, Sam, it was to Bogartâ?Ts Ts Rick Blaine that he turned. When Nora Ephron wanted to illustrate the practicality of women in When Harry Met Sally, it was Bergmanâ?Ts Ts example she held up (â?oI

NLP News Cypher | 07.26.20

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JULY 21, 2023

Photo by Will Truettner on Unsplash NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP) WEEKLY NEWSLETTER NLP News Cypher | 07.26.20 Last Updated on July 21, 2023 by Editorial Team Author(s): Ricky Costa Originally published on Towards AI. Primus The Liber Primus is unsolved to this day. It contains 3,654 question answer pairs. Paper: [link] Where is it?

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Introduction to Linux interfaces for virtual networking (2018)

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Linux has rich virtual networking capabilities that are used as basis for hosting VMs and containers, as well as cloud environments. In this post, I will give a

Beautifying Org Mode in Emacs (2018)

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APRIL 15, 2024

Configuring Org Mode in Emacs for beautiful typography for both text and code editing.

The Ease Factor Problem (2018)

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DECEMBER 3, 2023

The Mass Immersion Approach seeks to optimize the path to true foreign language proficiency.

After Appalachian Hospitals Merged into a Monopoly, Their ERs Slowed to a Crawl

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MARCH 26, 2024

Ballad Health was granted the nation’s largest state-sanctioned hospital monopoly in 2018. Since then, its emergency rooms have become more than three times as slow.

Two photographers captured the same millisecond in time (2018)

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

After being accused of stealing one another's photo, Ron Risman and Eric Gendron, both from New England, learned that they had captured the exact same millisecond in time, from the same location, using different cameras, to create virtually identical images.

Power Metal: is it really about dragons? (2018)

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Some years ago, Matt Daniels [1] wrote a great article on who has the largest vocabulary in hip-hop. I thought it was brilliant: comparing Shakespeare to famous hip-hop artists. It got me thinking and gave me the inspiration of doing something similar with a genre I love: Power Metal. People â¦

The tensor product, demystified (2018)

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Previously on the blog, we've discussed a recurring theme throughout mathematics: making new things from old things. Today, I'd like to focus on a particular way to build a new vector space from old vector spaces: the tensor product.

Speak Friend and Enter – Do people use movie passwords? (2018)

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FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Can you think of a famous password, such as one used in a book or a movie? Do people see passwords being typed on screen and think "hey, now that is a pretty good password."? I downloaded the Exploit.in combo list containing over seven hundred million leaked logins and tried to look how often than…

Some monkeys in Panama may have just stumbled into the Stone Age (2018)

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APRIL 21, 2024

One group of capuchins uses stone tools, but neighbouring groups do not – suggesting primates - including us - might enter the Stone Age simply by chance

The bacterial horror of hot-air hand dryers (2018)

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OCTOBER 27, 2023

Researchers testing the dispersal of bacteria in public restrooms found that the hand dryers were picking up bacterial deposits, likely from aerosolized microbes caused by the flushing of uncovered toilets.

FCC fines big three carriers $196M for selling users' real-time location data

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APRIL 29, 2024

FCC finalizes $196M penalties for location-data sales revealed in 2018.

Dyalog '18: Rectangles All the Way Down (2018) [video]

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

Martin Thompson, Real Logic (U.K.)Moore's Moore's Law has come to an end. Spectre and Meltdown mitigations have resulted in significant performance impacts for serve.

Gates' Law: How progress compounds and why it matters (2018)

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Gate's Law: “Most people overestimate what they can achieve in a year and underestimate what they can achieve in ten years.” Here’s why it matters to you.

Read the Chronicles of Narnia in Publication Order (2018)

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DECEMBER 28, 2023

As someone who has been known to start series smack in the middle—with both books and television shows—I tend to be a bit agnostic on the question of “what order should I read/watch these in?…

How to mess with your roommate (2018)

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MARCH 17, 2024

Before I explain what I did to hurt poor Logan, I must explain our apartment’s media setup. You will see why shortly.

How to shuffle a big dataset (2018)

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AUGUST 29, 2023

At Jane Street, we often work with data that has a very lowsignal-to-noise ratio, but fortunately we also have a lot of data.Where practitioners in many fiel.

Why doctors hate their computers (2018)

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JULY 27, 2023

Digitization promises to make medical care easier and more efficient. But are screens coming between doctors and patients?

Behavioral Programming (2018)

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MARCH 28, 2024

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On 'function coloring' (2018)

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JUNE 5, 2023

How much of a problem is it to sharply distinguish between different kinds of functions?

Floor Mouse (2018)

B t Jobs (2018)

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Write Dumb Code (2018)

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STAT+: NYU professors who defended vaping didn’t disclose ties to Juul, documents show

Comments Are Code (2018)

Le Grand K (2018)

Calendar, Not Todos (2018)

Jank-Free Image Loads (2018)

DIY Night Clock Projector (2018)

Cautionary Fables for Darwin's Birthday (2018)

The Art of Conducting (2018)

The case against dual axis charts (and what to use instead) (2018)

The World of Instruction Manuals (2018)

Threading with Style (2018)

Power to the Data Report: Introduction to Neural Magic

How do satellites communicate with a GPS system? (2018)

Visualizing quaternions (2018)

The Marvelous Automata of Antiquity (2018)

How to parent more predictably (2018)

First Speakers Announced for Data Natives 2018, The Tech Conference of the Future

Why are amplitudes complex numbers? (2018)

Tetris Randomizers (2018)

Paul Buchheit interview (2018)

Playing it over and over again: how Casablanca was made (2018)

NLP News Cypher | 07.26.20

Introduction to Linux interfaces for virtual networking (2018)

Beautifying Org Mode in Emacs (2018)

The Ease Factor Problem (2018)

After Appalachian Hospitals Merged into a Monopoly, Their ERs Slowed to a Crawl

Two photographers captured the same millisecond in time (2018)

Power Metal: is it really about dragons? (2018)

The tensor product, demystified (2018)

Speak Friend and Enter – Do people use movie passwords? (2018)

Some monkeys in Panama may have just stumbled into the Stone Age (2018)

The bacterial horror of hot-air hand dryers (2018)

FCC fines big three carriers $196M for selling users' real-time location data

Dyalog '18: Rectangles All the Way Down (2018) [video]

Gates' Law: How progress compounds and why it matters (2018)

Read the Chronicles of Narnia in Publication Order (2018)

How to mess with your roommate (2018)

How to shuffle a big dataset (2018)

Why doctors hate their computers (2018)

Behavioral Programming (2018)

On 'function coloring' (2018)

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