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tashapenguinon Smartphones Are Killing Americans, but Nobody’s Counting

Interesting -- but I believe it's to do with Bloomberg more specifically. I checked another post on Medium incognito and could view it just fine.

tashapenguinon How bands can leverage data to book tours (viz at bottom)[OC]

Data was scraped from Bandcamp using Selenium in Python. Then the social graph was generated using the networkx Python package and exported into Gephi.

tashapenguinon With a 10-day supply of opioids, 1 in 5 become long-term users

I broke my wrist on march 1st, and I've had opioids absolutely dished out for me. Seemingly more easily prescribed in the US than South Africa. I was upped on my second refill to 15mg oxycodone three hourly. Seriously hoping getting off them isn't going to be a struggle :(

tashapenguinon Numerai – A hedge fund built by a global community of anonymous data scientists

>to push the website live __ The website has been live since like December 2015. There's a new tournament weekly. (I think it used to be every second week)... New tournament, new data -- always encrypted. Just look at the leaderboard; look at some of the participants' submission history

>any serious data scientist __ - I mean, any human - data scientist or not - would see at least that the website wasn't just pushed live; or at least have noticed the film is from like August... ^are you a serious data scientist? If you are (which I assume you are - just also an eager beaver to download the datasets without learning about the company sufficiently) -- then you'd do well to join the tournament and have a real go before you [attempt] to knock it as you have here -- and then come back and give some real feedback -- I'm sure everyone would appreciate to hear the 'after' report from you -- since you're so kind as already to dish out benefits of doubt :) Looking forward to catching you above controlling capital!