My triplet sister committed suicide a year ago today. The biggest question is always: why? Kelly, after all, pretty much had it all as far as most people can see. She was an Olympic medalist by the age of 21, and multiple time world champion. She almost certainly had greater strength and future victories ahead. […]
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I don’t think most people can really form a picture of New Zealand in their minds, excepting the rare and endangered kiwi bird, which is hardly representative since few even of the locals have seen one in the wild. New Zealand is largely a mystical sheep-filled underbelly of the world possibly containing El Dorado or
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There is, according to some commentators, a crisis in AI. This is because ‘models are not explainable’ or in other words they are a ‘black box’ – answers come out but they are not necessarily explained. Perhaps more correctly, the answer comes out, but these commentators want the model to babysit them through the entire
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I have a history of obsessing over predicting the future. Probably the first major time series project I had was in grad school, with a consulting project forecasting amusement park attendance that ultimately found a LSTM network to be most effective. Again at my first data science job, forecasting demand and sales and prices. Probably
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When 2019 started, my life plan was basically to support my twin sister Kelly on her path to greatness. Sheer strength of personality made her unstoppable, but she needed help finding her path and maintaining balance. Socially, I forced her to get engaged with others, and my wild silliness always helped portray her as rational
Both Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker were love-hate movies for me. For all the media commentary I have seen with people comparing the films as such opposites from each other, from my critique they both had very similar strengths and weaknesses. + Awesome Visuals, Beautiful Sets and Dogfights, Great Characters – Lack of Cohesive
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Aero bikes. Fat bikes. Gravel Bikes. Ebikes. Those are major new bike type trends that have affected the industry in the 2010’s. Most of these categories of bikes already existed, but then one frame design and marketing managed to overcome whatever the existing cons were, and suddenly every company had to be making and selling
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Almost two years ago I threw a bit of money into Robinhood to learn a bit about the stock market. At the time, they were the only major company offering free trades, and now, my primary broker (Schwab) offers that feature as well as many others. And during that time I managed to beat the
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Driving sucks. It pollutes, it wastes time, and it is dangerous. Public transit takes forever- although you can multi-task. The main problem is it isn’t nearly as widely available as needed, especially in the US. Cycling is amazing. It is healthy, competitive training, and a great mental transitions between work and home. But it requires
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Time series, while not hard persay, is not as straight-forward at the classification and regression problems that are the bread and butter of data science. Dominant models haven’t changed much in decades. This scares us data scientists, we need the latest and greatest. No consistent open-source solutions (outside of R’s forecast) Commercial is expensive for
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