A key skill not learned in grad school: Stopping at “Good Enough” @rctatman https://t.co/Yqr6XSdkzN pic.twitter.com/6Jhn7p7vy0
— Rachel Thomas (@math_rachel) April 11, 2019
A key skill not learned in grad school: Stopping at “Good Enough” @rctatman https://t.co/Yqr6XSdkzN pic.twitter.com/6Jhn7p7vy0
— Rachel Thomas (@math_rachel) April 11, 2019
Did you know that the @mybinderteam publishes their billing data? If you're curious what it costs to run a service with 100K weekly users running arbitrary computing environments, find out here! https://t.co/JP9gNPD3rf pic.twitter.com/9QZxF0y839
— Chris Holdgraf (@choldgraf) April 11, 2019
So apparently the cool pictures of the black hole today are from the algorithm in Bouman et al. 2016 (https://t.co/EzxZStYH38), a CVPR paper that has been cited a total of 11 times. Citations are not necessarily an indication of impactful work, esp. multidisciplinary work!
— Graham Neubig (@gneubig) April 11, 2019
looks like best Kagglers are more ready for graduate school publish-perish cycles than real work :) https://t.co/2pKHvtmr5b
— Delip Rao (@deliprao) April 11, 2019
How many people are trying "productivity hacks" when what they really need is therapy, medication and a less stressful life?https://t.co/U1MgUUXgWo
— Christopher Mims 🎆 (@mims) April 10, 2019
Tech has too often an ahistorical view of itself. Maybe because it changes fast -- which makes practitioners uncurious about what happened before their time. Despite being closely relevant.
— François Chollet (@fchollet) April 10, 2019
Google’s blog post about remote work is worth reading. In short:
— JD Long (@CMastication) April 7, 2019
Remote is effective. It works best if the team knows each other as people. We should foster connectedness & empathy. Makes sense to me. https://t.co/UEAgl37Xy3 pic.twitter.com/xpD9TtinGp
Humans have at least 185 types of biases (@Wikipedia).
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) April 5, 2019
Ageism is certainly one of them, which is under-studied in #healthcare, and adversely affects health outcomeshttps://t.co/9EGvpWS1QB @TheLancetPH by @DrSarahEJackson @hackett_ruth @UCL_BSH @uclhealth #OA pic.twitter.com/BK7pqThtWi
1. It’s a hard field to master, but you don’t need any special innate abilities to succeed
— Angela Bassa (@AngeBassa) April 5, 2019
2. You don’t need a grad degree, but it’s undeniable one can help you grok the hows/whys of stuff
3. Get dedicated advice longer than fits in 280 chars at https://t.co/TxtrShI0Nx
If you want to hire passionate people, then you have to hire their passion too. If a person is passionate about their work, then get out of the way and let them do it. As Amelia Earhart said, “Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.” https://t.co/etUCMCsh7z
— Kirk Borne (@KirkDBorne) April 5, 2019
This is some great data science reporting. Natural Language Processing, political economy, nerd box! This has it all. https://t.co/jK3618ZTAz
— JD Long (@CMastication) April 5, 2019
Here's the interactive itself. Obviously, there are lots of ways to criticize 538. But some of the more philosophical criticisms about probabilistic forecasting just don't hold up very well if you look at the actual track record. https://t.co/9DIWaNObp6
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) April 4, 2019