Phil Anderson

data, statistics, and groutfits @uber. Tweets are mainly articles I find interesting or simply want to read later.

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@ammar_farooq Shots fired

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@ammar_farooq Thought it might be the Oakland ballers for a second :D

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@fintechfrank New mayor is helping make the city more livable
It’s not all AI

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@SwiftYouTube_ Charles Rodgers

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To quote one of my former teammates, “Celsius measures how water feels, Fahrenheit measures how people feel”

[Captain Ⓐncapistan @CptAncapistan]

The 0-100 in Fahrenheit generally fits the range of what the temperature can be outside where humans live. It’s far superior for daily use.

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@girlziplocked This REALLY depends on the industry and specific degree

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@DGhirardo Guinness hits different in Ireland

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@Tom_Weseli It’s unreasonably good

[Matthew Chapman @fawfulfan]

So how DID it become so expensive to go to college in America?

How did a degree go from being a few-thousand dollar commitment you could pay off with a part-time job on days you didn't have class, to something you need to take out tens of thousands of dollars for?

Well...

[Phil Anderson @panderson555]

@ChelseaParlett Even if your main task is prediction, a sophisticated DS org will also expect you to demonstrate the impact of your deployed prediction approach, which is of course … an inference task

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@PhDemetri I feel like this is more an issue of having a globally-distributed workforce than of remote itself, unless the global distribution is enabled by remote. Whatever the case though, I completely agree - starting the day with a queue of slack messages is suboptimal

[Steph Smith @stephsmithio]

1 year ago today.

Wild to think about how much has changed since.

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California could also really benefit from this guy

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This might end up being hyperbolic but for now I’m starting to agree. Definitely the most important thing since the iPhone

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@ikirigin A fun pastime is to ride the Caltrain from San Francisco to San Jose and observe all of the things the Bay Area prioritizes over housing

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@Austen Ridiculous as this is, Stanford can get away with charging this because it’s Stanford and arguably still worth it. They are exploring the frontier of willingness to pay for college and apparently haven’t found it yet

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@sumisusan @PhDemetri Exactly - maybe for decision makers the idea of just spending money for built-in support is easier to swallow than the idea of hiring a whole team, even if it’s cheaper

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@sumisusan @PhDemetri Haha yea idk in this case. I have never known anyone revert to SAS once they have started heavily using open source alternatives

[Phil Anderson @panderson555]

@sumisusan @PhDemetri I don’t work in IT, but I get the sense that if a company is relatively weak in that area, it might be easier to maintain SAS installations than Python/R. With SAS there is a number to call when something breaks, which is part of why it’s so expensive

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@sumisusan @PhDemetri Usually it’s a blend of legacy and corporate fear of open source for security reasons (however legitimate that actually is)