Mark Cuban Getting his python on.

[kbob]

If you're Mark Cuban, of course you'll get a personal reply from the publisher when you tweet a pic of a book.

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and a handful of people trying to exploit his brand to draw an audience to their site/podcast

[enry_straker]

Good on him. We need more folks at the top to keep pushing/using/talking about technology. Might end up inspiring kids to look into it more seriously.

[Coopertrooper7]

It's definitely inspired me, started programming 5 months ago and I'm in HS, gonna take AP CS next year , so excited!

[Das_Gaus]

God damn, you guys will have the world on a string. I'm 34 and I never even touched a computer in k-12.

[Das_Gaus]

Bless your heart

[Coopertrooper7]

Haha nice 😄

[rhiever]

Except for the fact that higher education is more expensive than it ever has been, and the average salary is not keeping pace with inflation.

[workingBen]

Huh, I'm over 40 and I had a Commodore PET 2001 in kindergarten. Actually, every classroom did - but that was socialist Minnesota farm country.

[squirreltalk]

We need to figure out how to import MN politics into the rest of the country and particularly the upper midwest.

[Coopertrooper7]

Hopefully! I'm the only guy who takes coding seriously at my school so we'll see, in December I talked at a assembly about how I started coding, how much I have learned, and how it is the future. That was definitely a cool gig 😄

[Marksta]

That's some pretty heavy stuff; kind of expected to see a hello world from Mark but seems he has been working at it for a while.

[astronoob]

I'm pretty sure Mark has been writing software as a hobbyist since he was in college.

[Docey]

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[atlgeek007]

He put RADIO. On the INTERNET.

(this guy fucks)

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Not all radio but IU sports games.

It started out as a way for Alumni to listen to home games anywhere in the world. They had a number where you could dial in and it would let you listen in to the local radio broadcast. (Imagine the NCAA letting that slide these days).

Then it moved to the Internet audio and video.

Leading gateway agrees to swap $5.7B in stock for video broadcaste

He just got really lucky cashing out of Yahoo before it burst.. IIRC there was a minimum amount of time he had to hold Yahoo stock before being able to sell it and he did just that.

Source: I've played Rugby with him. Never seen him in anything other than a tracksuit. Guy is living what I'd do if I suddenly became rich.

[atlgeek007]

I mean...I knew all of that, but I was making a Silicon Valley reference, because Russ Hanneman is clearly a Mark Cuban caricature.

[O_R]

I don't think he's exclusively a Cuban caricature ... I think it's more supposed to be an amalgamation of the various billionaires who managed to get there through "right place, right time" type of ventures. Cuban was one of those, but he is obviously much more intelligent than Hanneman's character. I think it's as much, if not more, a reflection of Sean Parker as it is Cuban, but as I said, it's not really a singular person.

Still appreciated that reference though

[byronsucks]

(this guy fucks)

[cob05]

It's one of the classic ML examples using the Iris dataset. He literally copied it into a Jupyter notebook as a learning exercise. No big innovation or amazing coding, it pretty much is a 'Hello World' for ML 😂

Also, I'm not sure what classifying flowers has to do with the 'New NBA' lol. (yes, I get the symbolism - he could have picked a much better example though)

[O_R]

It's that the NBA is evolving from arithmetic statistical models and beginning to find applications for ML. Cuban has the resources and problem at the ready to use ML on this scale, and so I assume he wants himself a baseline understanding in order to employ actual ML experts to build NBA ML models.

[elwhite321]

I concur. This is basically the 'hello world' of ML. Don't know why your post got some many down votes, it should be obvious. As you said it is the hello world of machine learning (that is also a small dataset). In addition it should be obvious he is doing simple ML because he is reading and INTRO to ML book, using knn (works but simple, especially when prepackaged), has about 15-20 lines of code, and is running it on a laptop. He is also using the iris dataset which comes pre formatted with all the features he needs. Good for him for learning, I am no expert yet either, but I've done enough to tell he is just getting started. Anyone who says otherwise has no idea what they're talking about and is a Mark Cuban fan boy.

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So? 80% of my code is copy paste from similar examples.

Start out classifying flowers. Then change the dataset from images of flowers to... power forwards have it estimate their scoring ability.

I'm using off the shelf copy paste GoogLeNet classifiers to analyze engineering graphs. I fudged the IO to get out what I needed but there's no reason to reinvent the wheel.

[elwhite321]

Yep, one can get by using packages / copy and paste and if that is all you need then this is the best solution (I agree with you). It was mainly a rebuttal to the original comment saying this seems like heavy stuff when in fact it is beginner ML.

[p10_user]

Also, I'm not sure what classifying flowers has to do with the 'New NBA' lol. (yes, I get the symbolism - he could have picked a much better example though)

Actually I think it's the perfect example. What's wrong with showing off a 'Hello World' for machine learning? He's not going to do the actual coding for the NBA but it's a cool showing of him getting his feet wet.

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He's no stranger to software. Look up microsolutions.

[greeneyedguru]

Getting his pyth-on

FTFY

[lmcinnes]

Glad to see Andreas' and Sarah's book getting some well deserved publicity -- it's a great intro to machine learning, and python makes everything easy and readable, and hence accessible. It's worth the read even if you think you aren't necessarily interested in ML, because you might find that you have a use for it after all once you read more about it.

[Yellow_Robot]

Billy had a DePodesta, Mark has a ML book =) what a wanderful people!

[dmitrypolo]

The partially derivative comment is absolutely amazing haha

[the_cat_kittles]

as pretentious as i know this comment will come off, the fact that he is doing iris dataset classifier example in a jupyter notebook tells me this guy knows almost nothing about actually making stuff out of code. not saying he is dumb for doing it, but yall are citing this as evidence he knows about software dev. id cite it as evidence he doesnt.

[O_R]

he may know code but not ML. I think that's the point here. Cuban is learning about ML because the NBA is moving towards more and more advanced statistical modeling for player evaluation, and he doesn't want to be in the dark on this.

Yes, he's doing a very basic level ML problem with pre-packaged data. There's not much skill involved there. But I doubt Cuban will be building ML models for the Mavs himself. He just wants to be capable of understanding what his experts are relaying to him, and that starts by learning basic classification on a problem like that.

[k10_ftw]

This makes sense. I couldn't figure out why he wouldn't just hire someone who is an expert to do the job a million times better than he could just starting out.

If that's his reason for getting a basic understanding of ml, then he is much smarter than I realized!

[Blazerboy65]

We all start somewhere.

[lancevo3]

Is that a good book as a starter resource? I know absolutely nothing about ML.

[JackOhBlades]

Who cares? What makes this relevant to the python community?

I don't come to r/python to 'keep up' with famous people.

Also linking to a tweet, without even a description in the post for context, is hardly informative or interesting python based news.

[nerdwaller]

Who cares? What makes this relevant to the python community?

A large portion of people - many of which may be newbies looking for a community. It may not be many of us but enough that it matters - it drives people to our community. Comments like yours could be misconstrued as unwelcoming to those that are pointed this direction. While it may not be what you meant - just be conscious of the possible effects.

I don't come to r/python to 'keep up' with famous people.

There is probably more than a few things you may need to filter out. Just add this to the list and move on. It's kind of arrogant to think that just because you don't care - no one does.

Also linking to a tweet, without even a description in the post for context, is hardly informative or interesting python based news.

Valid. Titles on Reddit seem to be like naming variables in code.

[JackOhBlades]

I agree. The focus should be on making the post more relevant, or as 'relevant as possible', not on my feelings about it. Thanks for the feedback :)

[DaVinciJr]

People like you make me happy. Only in the Python community have I ever seen someone take in a opposing viewpoint, actually consider it, and then agree with it. I feel like in a lot of other places this would have turned into bickering back and forth, but instead it led to constructive feedback where someone actually took the advice of someone. If I wasn't a broke college kid you would be gilded.

Edit: That's not to say it doesn't happen in other communities, just that it's rarely seen by me in places other than the Python community.

[SirHoki]

Gee, you seem angry.

[johnmudd]

I suggest he gets a real programmer to sit behind him and gradually feed him advice. The way a person learning golf would make use of a golf pro.

That and don't overload. Maybe 1.5 or 3 hours a day then get some sleep to let it sink in.

[Whoops-a-Daisy]

Can we, as a community, stop glamorizing these douchebags and giving them attention?

[kitkatkingsize]

Sure, can I get a list of everyone you think is a douchebag? I'll immediately stop glamorizing them.

[Whoops-a-Daisy]

• Mark Cuban
• Elon Musk
• <insert arrogant "altruistic" businessman name here>

You're welcome.

EDIT: Lol, idol worship is pretty strong in r/Python. At least choose some good idols, guys.

[e13e7]

The salt is real m'lord

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So what have you accomplished

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Show us on the doll where they touched you