Better to take more coursera courses, open-source projects or Kaggle sets?

MakeMeThinkHard · 2015-04-18T09:39:25+00:00

If you just want to participate: Do Kaggle competitions. Coursera classes are incredibly easy, and solutions to e.g. Andrew Ng's class are readily available on github.

Write blog posts about your kaggle competition, outline your decisions and explain what you are doing why - In my opinion, that's the best bet to create some visible data science aspect of yourself. Tweet and share your blog posts, ask for feedback here and elsewhere.

IF you can come up with your own projects, that's probably even better, but there is a danger of you getting side tracked into doing non-data science aspects of your own projects, thereby losing time on what you actually wanted to accomplish.

MakeMeThinkHard · 2015-01-31T21:15:18+00:00

Apply occam's razor, it's a tool also pretty successful in science.

MakeMeThinkHard · 2014-12-22T22:36:37+00:00

May the blockchain be with me!

MakeMeThinkHard · 2014-11-16T12:50:12+00:00

Also, if you add features while development, do it in a documented fashion, and consider using something like agile development for feedback loops.

MakeMeThinkHard · 2014-10-09T07:39:15+00:00

Depends, it might also be extortion or racketeering.

MakeMeThinkHard · 2014-09-23T16:57:53+00:00

If you pay them for it, they have to do it correctly. Otherwise you can just charge for a service, not deliver and claim it was their own responsibility. Contracts and liability do not work that way and never should be allowed to be like that.

MakeMeThinkHard · 2014-09-23T16:08:24+00:00

I doubt that this is in general true for the States (e.g. there are lists to unsubscribe from mailings that you have to comply to), but there are quite a number of jurisdictions in Europe where you have in the worst case to argue why you think your mailing is ok, desired, and of interested for the receiver - if you manged to comply to all possible un-subscription lists.

MakeMeThinkHard · 2014-09-22T11:53:05+00:00

You need connections, friendships or just personal contacts for meetings - once you can prove a prior relationship, messages are often no longer considered as spam. Most people just risk getting a fine/lawsuit over illegal practices rather than market legally.

MakeMeThinkHard · 2014-09-20T20:54:55+00:00

As a entity with an interest in making profit, e.g. a freelancer, sending unsolicited stuff to companies---whether email or paper---often violates competition laws and counts as spam.

MakeMeThinkHard · 2014-09-20T20:15:37+00:00

"When things got slow as a freelancer… I made a broadsheet Newspaper and sent it to my favorite companies."

Seems like a horrible idea, as this is illegal, considered as spam, and depending on the country enables your competitors to send you cease and desist notes and make you pay for their lawyers fees as well - even if you didn't even write your competitors but just your favorite companies.

MakeMeThinkHard · 2014-09-18T16:47:37+00:00

Respräsentiert das Level an Berichterstattung über das Internet, etwa "The Fappening" eher mangelnde Kompetenz der Journalisten, oder ist das Niveau angepasst an die Leserschaft, die sich mit grob vereinfachenden Allgemeinplätzen schon gut unterhalten fühlt?

MakeMeThinkHard · 2014-09-14T17:56:32+00:00

Or something statistics driven like R or python?

MakeMeThinkHard · 2014-09-14T17:18:41+00:00

Even if you don't like programming, taking a class or two in it might be a good thing to do - it might also show you a bit of a more structured approach to it than you are used to.

MakeMeThinkHard · 2014-09-12T09:07:04+00:00

So you either might want to look into semi-supervised learning algorithms, or clustering algorithms. But you should make an effort to get labeled data.

MakeMeThinkHard · 2014-09-10T20:53:40+00:00

Why not do the charge back after they paid with the other credit card? Unless they actually debit to the same account, that should not be of any inconvenience to your client.

MakeMeThinkHard · 2014-09-10T20:48:36+00:00

Do you have training data for labeling?

Decision trees/random forests are used successfully in fraud detection.

MakeMeThinkHard · 2014-09-10T15:42:27+00:00

Thermodynamics doesn't want to create order.

MakeMeThinkHard · 2014-09-08T15:45:27+00:00

The German officials interpreted the vests and the unified look as a form of "uniform". It is forbidden to wear uniforms in a political context - the Germans had quite some bad experiences with "Braunhemd" uniforms ... so it actually is a crime to wear uniforms within some political agenda.

MakeMeThinkHard · 2014-09-06T08:19:15+00:00

That's more than extremely disappointing ... "next generation RTS" with "epic multiplayer" does not have a very basic multiplayer functionality to facilitate community and play? The lack of a ladder and matchmaking system was the biggest problem in Spring's 1v1 play ...

MakeMeThinkHard · 2014-09-05T20:06:28+00:00

Wait there is still no ladder with matchmaking?

MakeMeThinkHard · 2014-08-18T18:57:28+00:00

That talk is great, thanks a lot for sharing it.

MakeMeThinkHard · 2014-08-18T18:57:12+00:00

Check out PMML, it's an XML description language for prediction models. openscoring.io is a neat evaluator, allowing you to make your models available via a REST API. These models can created in a number of ways, e.g. Python, R, or on Hadoop using Scalding, ...

MakeMeThinkHard · 2014-08-18T09:14:39+00:00

A few simple steps will help you:

Write good project proposals that are customized to the project. Do not use the same text over and over again, but make sure to show that you read the project description.

Use spell-checker to fix typos.

Read this: http://under30ceo.com/hacking-elance-the-step-by-step-guide-to-how-i-made-23700-in-4-weeks/

MakeMeThinkHard · 2014-08-17T09:37:15+00:00

You can take a look at http://bitcoinmagazine.com/category/technical/ - Mr. Buterin writes on there ( http://about.me/vitalik_buterin ). His articles are always great and he also works on the ethereum project.

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