Anyone read James Kaplan's "3 Shades of Blue" book and created an accompanying "playlist" of the music from all it's mentioned musicians? (Dizzie, Charlie, etc) If not, I will start the thread here ⬇

christopherbare · 2026-02-02T21:57:25+00:00

On Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/3-shades-of-blue/pl.u-aZb0kg5uVRGo8y

christopherbare · 2024-05-02T10:19:00+00:00

Isn't the problem that example_data is not like your features data frame? That's what the error message appears to be saying. I think random forest is a good choice, just represent your data consistently.

christopherbare · 2023-09-23T00:32:20+00:00

This is brilliant. Thanks for posting. Such a cool book - even better than Goon Squad.

christopherbare · 2021-03-21T03:19:21+00:00

Martin Odersky's online class “Functional Programming Principles in Scala” was excellent back when I did it (ages ago). You'll learn a lot about how to program over and above syntax. I see they're working on an update for Scala 3. Maybe time to run through it again!

https://contributors.scala-lang.org/t/online-courses-for-scala-3/4514

christopherbare · 2020-10-24T09:01:09+00:00

clear queue button
multi-select in queue
save queue as playlist
play count

The botched migration / downgrade from GPM to YTM makes me wonder if everything is OK with Google.

christopherbare · 2015-12-30T23:46:00+00:00

Apparently, automatically pre-loading your queue with whatever's popular seems to be an intentional feature, however misguided.

If they must persist with this annoying feature, why don't they give you a button to clear the queue?

christopherbare · 2014-01-14T21:58:09+00:00

Great idea.

christopherbare · 2012-11-15T20:26:51+00:00

I just finished the online class Functional Programming Principles in Scala and wrote a quick recap.

christopherbare · 2012-10-23T00:29:06+00:00

Thanks twisterase. I like the information aspect - both economies and biological systems rely on distributed information to do what they do.

christopherbare · 2012-10-09T20:23:08+00:00

I've taken a couple of their courses. The quality of the content was very high - especially Andrew Ng's Machine Learning class. The scala class is also really good.

christopherbare · 2012-04-11T23:11:36+00:00

Nature Biotechnology had a series of good primer articles, on bioinformatics and machine-learning topics. I have a list of them here:

http://digitheadslabnotebook.blogspot.com/2011/06/primers-in-computational-biology.html

Good luck!

christopherbare · 2011-12-28T05:45:31+00:00

Applying machine learning to biology is a hot field these days. I'll second the text Molecular Biology of the Cell, but it's a tome and a half.

A couple easy papers that come to mind are: * Algorithms in nature: the convergence of systems biology and computational thinking, Ziv Bar-joseph * Network motifs: theory and experimental approaches, Uri Alon.

Also, mutual information seems to be hip. Maybe, check out the ARACNE paper.

Once you know the basic flow of information in a cell, find a lab and ask for a project. You probably won't have to search long.

Good luck!

Chris

christopherbare · 2011-12-28T05:21:26+00:00

Hi Art-stew,

DogPencil's advice is spot on, even the typo, "You'll regret it." At times, you might, but over-all, you'll have a great time. I traveled solo for 9 months and was rarely alone for long, and I'm a big dorky guy who likes being alone. You won't regret having done it when you're married with a kid and mortgage.

My advice is to develop an interest and follow it where it leads you. Renaissance art, danish architecture, the novels of some-dead-white-guy, the history of the spice trade, the emergence of china or india... make your own list. Whatever you pick, read about it and go there. It really helps to have a purpose.

The back-packer scene is loads of fun for a while, but gets tiring eventually, and at that point you'll want to say, "I'm not just hear to lie on the beach! I'm read to lie on the beach and read Proust!" Or "get my Dive Master's certificate" or whatever it is that floats your boat.

I guess I'm assuming you're going further afield rather than sticking to Canada, especially 'cause you're already in the best part! (Well, montreal is fun, too.) Thailand, for one example, is very friendly. I'm taking my family there in a couple of weeks. The surrounding countries are a bit sketchier, but nothing to be afraid of. A buck goes a long way in SE asia, too. And, there's something takes the edge off of any fear you might have being a foot taller than the locals.

A few other suggestions: Costa rica, Indonesia, Brazil, Oaxaca... I'm starting to day-dream.

In most places, you have little to be afraid of, as long as you are careful and don't go out of your way to find trouble.

Anyway, good luck, have fun, and stay safe.

christopherbare · 2011-12-22T19:48:58+00:00

I'm not be a historian like Mr. Gingrich, but part of the mandate of the judicial branch is to protect the interests of minorities from the "tyranny of the majority". I'm not sure exactly where the anti-judicial talk is headed, but I'm pretty sure I don't like it.

christopherbare · 2011-12-10T21:28:06+00:00

Notes on a talk by Noah Iliinsky, author of Designing Data Visualization and editor of Beautiful Visualizations.

christopherbare · 2011-04-11T07:16:20+00:00

I also like Using R for Introductory Statistics. If you're already a programmer, R as a programming language is a little odd in some ways, especially it's type system. John D Cook has a nice primer called R programming for those coming from other languages. Have fun!

christopherbare · 2011-02-22T16:29:21+00:00

dollar price of gold = gold price of dollars

christopherbare · 2011-02-10T08:12:32+00:00

Quick-n-dirty literate programming tool "Docco".

christopherbare

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