Readit Newscridal commented on An Interview with an Anonymous Data Scientist (2016) logicmag.io/01-interview-... · Posted by u/PaulJulius
cridal commented on Google Paid This Man $100 Million sfgate.com/technology/bus... · Posted by u/jmount
Ads are also the thing that enables really amazing things to exist. Regardless of your feelings about facebook, the community it has created has had drastic impacts on the world at large. Almost the entire knowledge of humanity is now in anyone's grasp with a simple click of a button (Google). That was only possible because Google was able to make money off of it through ads. How do you propose that the internet pay for its self without ads? The whole freedom of the internet is because they can make money off of ads.
Not everyone needs to cure cancer to do something great.
'cure cancer' was just a placeholder for anything of greater importance to the human condition. However, maybe you are onto something. Maybe ads are indeed the lifeblood of the new interconnected, networked world of century 21 and beyond. I guess nobody figured out a better way to sustain life on the 'internets'. Yet...
cridal commented on Google Paid This Man $100 Million sfgate.com/technology/bus... · Posted by u/jmount
Wow. Definitely, an interesting reading. And a special guy, no question about it. On the other hand, the guy didn't cure cancer. Doesn't it give anyone pause to thin that the topic of conversation is 'ads'? You know, those little annoying things you would never click, and which get in the way of your normal life.
I mean we're talking about billions of dollars. So much human talent, skill, intelligence taken away from really important things... Just sad...
cridal commented on Python data tools just keep getting better strata.oreilly.com/2013/0... · Posted by u/datascientist
That would have been my answer a year ago as well, however we've (continuum analytics) put out our own distribution now which gives you much more - all for free.
How does this distribution play with the outside world? Will I be able to install other third party libraries into the distribution? Does it have its own 'installation procedure'?
You have got to be kidding!
cridal commented on How to hire a lot of talented people, very quickly ryanleecarson.tumblr.com/... · Posted by u/wwdevries
First of all, I'd like to congratulate Ryan Carson on the idea of 4-day work week. Hopefully this would start the ball rolling on the whole discussion of work/life balance here in the states. It is such a great concept and I'm sure will attract a lot of top talent.
The only thing is, it needs validation. I hope the company does really well in the long run, and therefore puts 4-day work week on the table for others to follow. Wouldn't that be great...
cridal commented on Why The US Can Beat China: The Facts About SpaceX Costs spacex.com/usa.php... · Posted by u/hef19898
cridal commented on Why The US Can Beat China: The Facts About SpaceX Costs spacex.com/usa.php... · Posted by u/hef19898
Is this guy the Richard Branson of XXI century? Barely in his 40s and:
Paypal
Tesla
SpaceX
You've got to be in owe...
"We've invented cigarettes", come buy a pack... everything that doesn't kill you makes you stronger...
SQL is easy. Data is hard.
If you aren't investing the work up front to make your data useful then no amount of tooling or magic beans will make writing meaningful SQL easy. If your reports (SQL) are hard to write it's because you have bad data.
Having said that making data exploration easier is always a worthwhile exercise. The more business people can self-serve their questions the better. It falls to data people to make that possible not just with tools but with the data itself.
The advantage of this approach would be the fact that you do the dirty laundry upfront during the modeling & population phases. The end result is a data structure that is fool-proof, i.e. there is only one way to join facts/dimensions, it's self-documenting. In fact pre-joined views could automatically be created (and persisted if need be), giving the business user a clean structure to interact with.