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Comment · 8 years ago
You had me until Qt.
Comment · 9 years ago
Good coffee does not scale.
Comment · 9 years ago
Stopped reading when I saw the 3d pie chart atrocity. I'm sure the rest is great.
Comment · 9 years ago
No, just English.
Comment · 10 years ago
Seems like they did something to the notebook interface to make it more responsive on tablets. I usually cannot manipulate Jupyter notebooks from an iPad, but I can here. Is this just a MS modification?
Comment · 10 years ago
The statement "More wisdom potentially gets extracted when you apply Statistics to more (and better) data, but the analysis itself doesn’t improve with better data." simply isn't true. A hierarchical model, for example, is increasingly able to model subgroups and additional levels of hierarchy as more data are added. Penalized regression (or Bayesian regression) is another example -- the model is structurally different as you change the quantity of data.

The difference between ML and statistics is entirely semantic. Is logistic regression a ML method or a statistical method? It is both!

Comment · 10 years ago
If you don't need Python 3, then you won't need IPython 6.
Comment · 10 years ago
Neither of these assertions are true. I use Py3 to teach graduate-level scientific computing and machine learning with great success, and the scientific Python community is making a very strong push for adoption. All major packages in the scientific stack now support Python 3.
Comment · 11 years ago
I closed my PP account 2 years ago and would never consider using the service again. Once upon a time it was a necessary evil, now it is no longer necessary (just evil).
Comment · 11 years ago
If you are getting your coffee from a pod, then DRM is the very least of your problems.
Comment · 11 years ago
I watch this video every 3 months. Its message is so important, yet easy to forget.
Comment · 12 years ago
I would still play Angry Birds if it did not continually pester me for in-app purchases. I'm probably not alone in dropping it for that reason.
Comment · 12 years ago
Its not clear why anyone cares what my text editor is.
Comment · 12 years ago
Simplenote seem to have abandoned Markdown, as it is only arbitrarily implemented in the web app. This makes it less compelling for me.

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