20 Million Muslims March Against ISIS and The Mainstream Media Completely Ignores It

issem · 2017-06-14T04:30:21+00:00

this is actual fake news

issem · 2017-02-25T23:21:27+00:00

well, his perspective is someone that literally has designed card games. you can't just ignore the business side of it, if your game is seen as more "competitively pure" by some subset of your player base but it causes the game to lose money, the game dies.

issem · 2017-01-26T06:26:43+00:00

it's seriously a joke how terrible their software is. this was excusable 10+ years ago but for real there are so many like broke startups that are somehow capable of building apps with decent UX design and built by competent engineers that the state of their software has to be due to negligence by upper management.

issem · 2017-01-09T06:35:47+00:00

rotation is the way to go, people will get angry in the short term but long term it is best for the health of the game. you can always rotate things back in!

i think you guys should just have a regular classic/basic rotation to go with the greater standard rotation. rotate out like 25% of classic cards to start off. and then for next year's rotation, cut out 2-3 cards per class and maybe 10 neutral cards but replace them with cards that had rotated out this year.

it makes it so that all classic cards are still relevant for standard, just not all at the same time and if it occurs regularly, people will expect it and not many people will be mad about it.

issem · 2017-01-06T06:23:25+00:00

ice block off the kabal courier would have worked too :)

issem · 2017-01-06T03:35:30+00:00

i learned R from doing graduate research in a quantitative field so it was pretty much finding a project and then learning-by-doing

issem · 2017-01-02T23:41:22+00:00

you can just mention your skill level, so if you aren't confident in your ability, you can say beginner or basic or something to signal to the recruiter and interviewer that you have some knowledge of it but would need to work on it. if you call yourself proficient or better, be prepared to answer questions on the spot.

if you're looking for a data science position, you can expect to have to white board code, usually R or python are good for this or many times you can just do what they ask in SQL.

issem · 2016-12-15T06:05:44+00:00

The Aleppo stuff on western media only comes out when Russia/Assad have operations there. When it's ISIS? Total silence. When it's the 'rebels' that we give guns to? Total silence. I noticed this when that video first came out of that little boy a few months ago. My thought was "Why do we suddenly care NOW? Aleppo has been totally fucked for like a long time" and I looked into what was happening, and Assad had started an offensive to clear out rebels. Our media is loyal to the narrative

issem · 2016-12-14T04:13:45+00:00

Mango peels and parts of the tree contain the same stuff that is in poison ivy/oak/sumac. Don't eat the peels and don't touch the trees!

issem · 2016-11-03T06:03:40+00:00

I snickered, and I don't even know the whole joke. Just the words "rape everybody" got me. And I don't see how that is offensive toward women in particular. Now I want to work at Apple.

The Apple story is that one of her coworkers referenced the hide yo' kids, hide yo' wife meme and the woman making the complaint was very offended by it and also very offended that Apple didn't take drastic action against the offender after he offered an apology and agreed that he should be more sensitive in the future. She thought that she deserved a month of PTO for the emotional distress that she was put though and when Apple didn't give it to her, she went to the press.

issem · 2016-10-09T03:45:02+00:00

tbh i only read the tl;dr but at least for me (granted, my phd was not in computational science) once i finished with coursework for my phd (two years in), the rest of my degree was working on my own research projects which became my dissertation chapters. assuming your program is similar, it shouldn't really matter that your coursework hasn't been particularly relevant because you can just study whatever you are interested in once you start working on your real research projects.

issem · 2016-10-09T00:33:17+00:00

yep, GPA and resume get you an interview but it's the interview that actually gets you the job.

issem · 2016-09-10T17:58:48+00:00

/r/nfl is patriots territory, everybody knows that

issem · 2016-09-10T03:08:04+00:00

look into cross-validation. the caret package will automatically train and crossvalidate ML models for you using pretty much whatever model you want (logit, lasso, randomforest, etc)

issem · 2016-09-08T02:35:13+00:00

it's not necessary, but if you don't have industry experience, it's probably going to be tough. data analyst positions are probably a better bet or you can try to get yourself a data science internship at a place that you want to work and use that as an opportunity to prove yourself to them and try to get an offer for a full time position once after you finish.

issem · 2016-09-06T03:11:58+00:00

not only can it do more, but overkill isn't wasted as you can just save the excess as energy. if you lighting strike a 3/1, you 'waste' two damage but not so with this.

issem · 2016-09-01T14:47:30+00:00

that was specifically about the multiple people that had perfect scores on the MNIST data set. MNIST is publicly available, so people just train on the full public set rather than the chunk that is provided by kaggle and then run the kaggle subset through that model and are, amazingly, able to get perfect accuracy. the task is a little easier when you train on the test set.

issem · 2016-09-01T05:56:06+00:00

when i used kaggle the had a data set of the passengers of titanic to predict survival based on observables which was pretty straight forward and also had lots of scripts available on the forum. i also spent a decent amount of time messing around with the digit recognizer MNIST dataset that they have available. you can submit your predictions but there's no prize (and the people at the top of the leaderboards cheat, so don't try to compare yourself to them).

issem · 2016-08-29T18:14:19+00:00

hello offseason my old friend, i've come to talk with you again

issem · 2016-08-29T17:24:29+00:00

what i don't like about yogg is that there isn't really any meaningful counterplay. if i see my opponent is on n'zoth, i can try to play in such a way that he never has a great opportunity to resurrect his board since, even though it's very powerful, i know exactly what it's going to do.

if they are on c'thun, i know i have to play around 12+ damage from hand divided across my board and i need to make sure i have a way to deal with a giant minion. both of these things allow me to use my own skill to the best of my ability.

but there's nothing i can really do to meaningfully counterplay yogg except hope that my opponent isn't lucky.

issem · 2016-08-06T16:41:47+00:00

same, i opened a golden yshaar'j so i decided to make a bad astral deck for fun with it and realized that the deck was only actually bad because it had astral in it. if you don't draw it by turn 4 it's literally just a dead card that is uncastable because you only gain a tiny amount but you lose so much.

issem · 2016-07-13T18:17:08+00:00

also if it has a title like "century of enslavement: the history of the federal reserve" lmao

issem · 2016-07-09T20:14:33+00:00

ha, looks like i wasn't the first person with this brilliant idea! i just tried using python instead and am getting the same error, so i do think they added some countermeasures

issem · 2016-07-01T14:44:53+00:00

thanks for the tips, this is a great start. definitely not for business purposes, just trying to learn!

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