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This has nothing to do with objective rules. It has to do with the leftist censorship - exactly what I talked about. You are preaching dogma. "If you don't subject and do what we tell you, you are wrong. If you talk, we will ignore you. If we can, we will isolate and mute you".

Perhaps my previous ban was deserved. This is surely not. Hackernews and Ycombinator have made it very clear that they are a conduit for leftist ideas and there is no place for differing opinions.

Now I understand how so many people hate you so much that they had to turn to Trump, LePen, Farage.

Well, apparently the leftist intellectuals need a history lesson. This is why the US intervenes in the Middle East.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War

/r/backpropaganda

You can run R code in SQL Server, Oracle, Teradata, Hana and Vertica.

All of these databases kick the crap out of HN darlings like Redshift and BigQuery. Special mention goes to Vertica which is free up to three nodes and/or 1TB data + 1 TB in flex tables. It is, like the rest, analytical AND transactional. Has proper admin features, proper edge case coverage and a truck load of features. It also has a very sensible licensing.

Self-help books is philosophy for the feeble minded.

Different people don't get along very well. Something "technologists" prefer to pretend isn't so.

You live in a country with population about the size of LA metro and more homogenous than it.

So where are those high salaries in Denmark?

What is your proposed change?

Cuba is behind in development because of the American embargo.

American embargo was put in place because the US can't afford communist fools on its border. Simple. You swing at the big guy and you lose. That is war. Mistakes are unforgivable.

There are no good guys. There are just interest. The US protects its interests. Embargo on oil exports to the US? Fuck up your whole region so bad that this can't happen again. Divide and concur. Communism on its shore? Well, nobody goes on this forsaken place or else...

That's how you keep power and that's why you have such a high standard of living. You think it's because you work hard but it's not. At least not primarily.

After the fall of the wall, the intelligence officers and highest party officials took control of the economy, the judicial and law enforcement systems and also the media. They people who ruled did not change. Just their methods.

So since the poor were supporting somebody and the rich were opposing him, he must have been the right guy?

Ferrari makes 10,000 per year. What do they have to do with gasoline demand?

I don't mean to hate but why would anyone chose Stripe over Braintree? It seems the same to me + Paypal which is HUGE.

This is not some competition in morality. Nobody counts "moral superiority points". The only thing that is counted is money.

They have been good for every part of the world. And wars are a fact for the entirety of human civilization.

I'll take doubling the life expectancy of people China, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, other Asian counties, as well as most of Africa as a "concession". Thank you very much!

The decline of the West? Published in 1918 and followed by the best 100 years in human history?

I like the quote but the irony is just too big for me.

You severely underestimate the "western" appeal in communist countries, I think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amx-JHhtsHw

Atrocious syntax.

MXNet is the only deep learning framework that has proper support for R. That's why I use it and it is pretty nice IMO.

bah.

Statistics in Plain English.

Data Analysis Using Regression by Gelman

Introduction/Elements of Statistical Learning by Jerome Friedman. I recommend reading the Introduction and using the bigger book as a reference material when tackling a problem.

Bayesian Data Analysis, 3rd edition by Gelman.

You need calc 1 & 2 and matrix algebra somewhere along the way.

Lots of papers, googling and doing. That's when you got the basics covered. You start being "operational" after Data Analysis Using Regression.

When you start working on a problem, you need to go through the relevant literature first. Nobody ix expert or even half-good in more than 2 or 3 (small) areas of statistics. Read the literature, take notes and create a plan first.

Think about it; why are your keys always in the last place you look? Because once you find them you stop looking. If you want to keep people on your site you hide their keys.

That is actually very interesting analogy! And when I think about my facebook browsing habits, it only makes sense. Of course it has a flow an rhythm. Something interesting I engage with, a bunch of filler I scroll through, another interesting post. If all that is interesting to me is crammed into the top of the page, that would drop the metrics. Less vertical space used, less ads, less time on site (biggie with investors, I'm sure). Probably get fatigued much faster too. Consume even less interesting stuff than the "long format". I wonder if it is really beneficial (at least to them) in the long term or it is one of those things not worth maximizing (metrics vs. reasons [1]).

Do you have any interesting reading/watching/listening material from your old jobs? What are you up to these days?

[1] http://nxhx.org/maximizing/

It is historical fiction. blackthorne did exist, did get samurai status and estate, did build ships for Toranaga (Tokugawa Ieyasu). The characters are real and James Clavell spent 4 years in Japan researching and writing the book. His depiction was rather accurate, though of course exaggerated and romanticized.

http://www.columbia.edu/~hds2/learning/Learning_from_shogun_...

Yeah, the USS Ronald Reagan would like to have a word with those countries.

Hey, I'm very interested in remote sensing. Forestry applications are dire to my heart, but at the moment AG has a lockdown on my attention. I have stats/ML knowledge an have done initial research about remote sensing and I've got questions. Is it OK to shoot you an email or two even though I probably won't fit in the 3 groups you mentioned?

PS: I'm at the other way of the world, if that makes a difference.

when lack of physical comfort can be a limiting factor on having any intellectual life at all.

This can be said about decadence also!

I like a quote from Shogun by James Clavell (it's about mediaval japan getting discovered by a westerner for the first time, it is incredibly without exaggeration).

“Karma is the beginning of knowledge. Next is patience. Patience is very important. The strong are the patient ones, Anjin-san. patience means holding back your inclination to the seven emotions: hate, adoration, joy, anxiety, anger, grief, fear. If you don't give way to the seven, you're patient, then you'll soon understand all manner of things and be in harmony with Eternity.”

Amazon is a much more formidable competitor than MSFT.

I don't know about that. Going further, majority of the spend is going to come from established businesses. They need software and not just infrastructure. And msft has those accounts. Has the reseller network. Has the software. I really can't think of any good b2b/productivity software that google wrote. Probably they haven't tried, but looking at what they announced last - data studio, survey and optimize - the talk was like they were super serious about it. The result is very, very far from the competition.

What's the tool's name?