chasedehan

This is cool! I have been looking into building something similar along these lines for a while (I'm a data scientist and avid backcountry skier in the Wasatch). Have you seen: https://utahavalanchecenter.org/ ?

I would potentially be interested in contributing to this. One of the approaches I have thought would be beneficial is to generate probabilities of a slide occuring on a given slope using snow profiles as features in the model. Here we have the Utah Avalanche Center who go visit slides and generate snowpack reports like this: https://utahavalanchecenter.org/avalanches/37960

There are also a bunch of other snow pits dug with reports on slopes where a slide didn't occur. I would be neat to be able to plug in a slope (aspect, pitch, elevation, wind loading, etc) and have a red/yellow/green generated. The problem I ran into was obtaining the data - it all looks to be stored in random places.

Those are some amazing images! Just looked at his personal website and I am thoroughly impressed.

Anyone have recommendations for SaaS sales? I have done a lot of reading of generic sales books, but they don't seem to align much with specifics of selling in tech.

Sure about that? I use my business AMEX all the time and have contested at least one time and there was no problem.

You always have recourse against fraudulent activities - the credit card company will just reimburse

Interesting. I just got sucked into checking a whole bunch of connections. I like it.

I really enjoy the tidyverse, especially dplyr. I do most of my work in python now and find myself moving more and more of time in python.

There are definitely some issues if you have to reliably run scripts (not to mention the difficulties of putting into production)

The thing I really like about R over python is for SPECIFIC tasks like inspecting data and trying to get an answer out quickly, there really isn't a quicker or better tool to use. The ONLY reason I still even use R is because of the ease to get answers with the tidyverse

VRBO has been around since 1995. My parents had their vacation condo listed on there for a long time. The reason you don't hear about them is that they weren't controversial with sharing out rooms and didn't invest in pretty design.

I really think they dropped the ball when Airbnb moved into the space

SEEKING WORK | Remote or Utah

PhD, former professor, current Data Scientist, looking for contract/part-time freelance work.

Historically have worked with credit risk modeling and putting models into production. I have written a few extensions for sklearn (BoostARoota and DiaML) and presented at Data Science Conferences.

I have automated alot of my process and can complete end-to-end tasks quite quickly, including building an entire machine learning pipeline and deploying a REST API to integrate with any other tech stack.

Rate: $110/hr

Stack: Python, R, SQL, sklearn, other machine learning libraries

github: github.com/chasedehan

linkedin: linkedin.com/in/chasedehan

chase.dehan@lonepeak.ai

Thing sold for $18,700, who would spend that much on one?

For less academic conferences look at ODSC, AnacondaCon, or UseR!

Paywall?

The way you read x.h().g().f() is essentially the same way you read it in F# (with |>), Haskell(with . ,although it goes the opposite direction) and R(with %>%).

It is one of the most aestetically pleasing attributes of use in the functional languages

Not to mention, saying that PhDs are underprepared to lead. Which the article then jumps to essentially saying, "hire the MBA".

That is a recipe for disaster - non-technical people leading technical people. Maybe we should hire an MBA as VP of Engineering too?

If a website looks like its from the '90s I don't care what the content says. I'm going on to the next thing.

>(say Montana)

While most of what you say is true - that there really are jobs everywhere - Montana is actually tough. I really want to move to Montana and have seriously struggled finding something to fit my skills.

The alternative plan is to figure out a remote gig and then truly live wherever you want

Does your '=vlookup(x, ...)' have tests surrounding it? How about code review? How about source control?

The fact that you need "tips" to make a question answerable is part of the problem.

As a former economics professor, I did exactly the same thing these authors were suggesting. While some students did use their technology effectively, the vast majority of whom were just distracted, not to mention probably taking far worse notes.

One small story, I was teaching a class during March one year and I had a student obviously not paying attention. Then, all of a sudden, this student's hands went in the air and an audible "Yes!" came out. I then asked him if there was something important - "Kentucky just won in a buzzer beater!" The vividness of this memory and the difficulty I had in containing my rage is still at the forefront of my mind.

For me, the impact was that while students should be able to do what they want for the most effective solution, it becomes a problem when activities disrupt the learning of the students around them. Someone not paying attention and watching cat videos is infectious as there is a lower percentage of participation and others start to watch the offending student's screen.

My perspective is (although unproven) is that the real reason laptops don't work is because of the temptation to do something else, not necessarily because of the medium.

The inherent deflationary is the same relation that we had with the gold standard.

The issue is that in a deflationary environment (such as recessions), the need for a central bank to prop up the currency for debtors is essential.

For an example: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/08/why-the...

>Calling someone an idiot doesn't threaten their livelihood.

Nor does someone calling for a firing on a blog actually threaten a livelihood.

"Hustle" is a word used often on a sports field to basically mean "work hard." In business environments, this is what it almost always means - someone who goes out and works hard to get the job done.

This whole thing goes back to the accounting process of measuring "throughput" rather than some fixed number such as inventory.

This book "The Goal" was incredibly beneficial for me in understanding the concept of throughput. While the book is a parable focused on manufacturing, it can be easily applied to companies in tech. https://www.amazon.com/Goal-Process-Ongoing-Improvement/dp/0...

Maybe I am biased by my field - economics - in which even having "access" doesn't mean they are "accessible." There are very very few people without a PhD who are able to understand most of the good papers. There is an even smaller number who would be able to contribute to scientific discourse, which is the main reason these papers are made available.

The other thing that may only be localised to my field is that every author recognizes this problem and makes a copy available on their website or university's working paper site. I would only rarely resort to going to an actual journal because Google Scholar was way easier to find a copy of the article.

This is, of course, going to differ for a number of fields and there is a growing trend for authors and journals to open up their articles.

Are you referring to me being offended - not in the least. I found it really funny and thats how it made my day.

Hi HN, BoostARoota is a feature selection algorithm I developed in the spirit of Boruta to target specifically boosted tree machine learning classifiers. I presented this initially at the ODSC West conference in San Francisco a couple weeks ago.

Please take a look and give it a try, I'm open to feedback and how it can be made better.

Thanks!

> I DON’T LIKE THAT YOU’RE GETTING POLITICAL. WHY DON’T YOU JUST STICK TO CARD GAMES? Why don’t you stick to seeing how many Hot Wheels cars you can fit up your asshole?

This comment in the FAQ just made my day

> Burning the excess waste would add some 2 million tons of carbon to the atmosphere

Hello? This is what composting is for - those materials could be turned back into the land, making for better producing land. This could make some of the pasture land that is no so great into better producing.

As a former professor I don't see much of an issue with this. Every research institution on the planet will have access to the articles.

Even if you don't have an affiliation (or your school doesn't subscribe to a particular journal), if you use Google Scholar to search for an article you can easily find pre-prints which are essentially the same thing. Additionally, if that still fails then the next option is to just email the author - they actually want you to read their work and will just send it out.

The real issue is that the societies are essentially extorting universities for hundreds of thousands of dollars per year when the writers have to pay to submit and readers have to pay to read. Many of the newer journals are becoming open access, but few of them have been able to make enough in roads to be considered "good journals." This is a completely separate topic than the one from the above article.

My god - no!

As a former professor I was once (only a couple years ago) assigned a classroom with a chalkboard and it was easily the worst semester. They look nice when they are clean, but as soon as you erase something it ends up being unreadable.

Not to mention I would end up covered in chalk at the end of a lecture.

Its amazing what HN can do for you. I have never cared about whiteboard markers but just spent 20 minutes reading about the differences and then looking on amazon to see what the price differences are.