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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I love R, but almost everything my team has deployed to production is written in Python. Python can be deployed almost anywhere with just a few changes, from clusters to cloud functions. It’s flexible and fast (those who mumble about how it’s slower than C++ or whatever, well, a few milliseconds of CPU time is
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There is a quiet place next to the garage that has been asking for a garden for some years. It is one of the only places near the house that is sheltered from the view and noise of the road, tucked away in a corner. Yet it also is atop the retaining wall, with a
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What makes this museum stand out, even from many museums in Rome itself, is the quality of the restorations and mix of media shown, far more than just marble. One room of glass artifacts felt like it came straight out of a contemporary art museum, and the gardens in particular bring the past to life.
I don’t particularly like eating apples – all the skin stuck in my teeth and bottom retainer is terribly annoying. But I do love our homemade applesauce. It was not a particularly good year for apples. Partly it was an ‘off’ year for the two established trees we have, but mostly it was the late
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This particular digging operation was inspired by a mistake. Instead of getting lots of small stones for the Kelly memorial zen garden, we got a bunch of really big river stones. Useless for that project, but we do still have lots of work to do on erosion-proofing the driveway and yard. Thus, this experimental idea:
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*This is really not meant for an introduction, although there is some, but rather a reference of links and reminder for people who already know some of the basics (ie me!). I have been busy researching high-dimensional forecasting, and this is part of the result. A time series is any series of numbers that occur
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