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Data Frequency

When processing data that is time senstitive, always process the data at one unit of time smaller than is desired. If you report is required quarterly, run it monthly. Due at the end of the month? Run it weekly. Weekly, gets run daily; and finaly, I run a...

Biasing Language

Yesterday, the US Midterm elections occured. Skimming the headlines of my RSS feed, I came across this statement: The energy and outrage of the Democratic resistance faced off against the brute strength of U.S. President Donald Trump’s GOP<a...

Canada is ranked 33

Infographic – Countries with Fastest Internet Speeds | Science and Enterprise Canada ranks #33… Though having said that… “Canada” is always a bad category. There is way too much variance between the provinces and counties. When discussing Gun...

Study of Art

In commencing a drawing, don’t, as so many students do, start carelessly floundering about with your chalk or charcoal in the hope that something will turn up. It is seldom if ever that an artist puts on paper anything better than he has in his mind before he starts,...

Sandboxing

xkcd: Sandboxing Cycle That cycle drives me banana’s, and has a hype cycle integrated into it.

The Blind leading The Blind

The Blind leading The Blind: due to the complexity of the open market, it looks like people are paying for AIs to train their AIs… Please tell me this disaster is true …. h/t: +Dennis D. McDonald Bot-Heavy Data Labelling Platforms Are The Cause Of...

Org Charts

I was reading an article about Satya Nadella’s efforts to change Microsoft’s culture (and image), and this image got referenced. The Org Charts Of All The Major Tech Companies (Humor) Comments John Jainschigg - 2018-08-21 09:43:58-0400 We should...

Dragonfly

http://bit.ly/dragonfly-considered-harmful I have never been on the inside of Google, but I do share the same feeling of loss regarding the internet as this author. He describes a sense of hope for what the “information superhighway” could have meant, only to have...

Failings of Agile

Just a really interesting discussion about the failings of “Agile” and what it was supposed to be

BMO Fraud

Its better to cut from the bottom, than promote at the top My idea comes from observing various chaotic systems (ecological in particular… I used to have an ecologist for a roommate). The best example/metaphor I have is breeding livestock. If you select for the best traits (top...

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