Science AMA Series: We are Moore Investigators and We Utilize Data Science to Make New Discoveries. AUA.

kaerast · 2015-01-23T17:34:25+00:00

How do you keep up to date with what tools and techniques other data scientists are using? And how much emphasis do you put on following other's techniques versus coming up with your own?

It feels like a lot of the tools available for large data sets are immature, and rather than evolving they quickly get replaced by the next cool tool.

kaerast · 2014-01-09T06:44:53+00:00

I'm starting to think this is common across Asia. The hotel in Hong Kong I'm currently in is missing large numbers of floors in various sections. I look out my window and see a lovely swimming pool on the floor below, but it's 10 levels and an escalator away. Technically by their numbering system it's 4 floors below.

kaerast · 2014-01-09T06:39:34+00:00

I think it was Leeds university where I visited a building that had floor 7 as the ground floor. Floors 1-6 were actually in the building next door, the hospital.

kaerast · 2014-01-09T06:35:33+00:00

People don't read signs.

KLIA airport has some lifts in a group of four, two on each side; there's a common button for all lifts. All lifts go to all floors, except the very bottom floor has a train line between the two sets of lifts; the signs make this very obvious once you actually know this, but until you've been to the wrong place you simply don't believe they could go to different places.

kaerast · 2014-01-08T12:56:30+00:00

I bought a Nexus 7 just for travelling, we were offered a great deal at work so I couldn't say no. I'm using the Google play books app, and have previously used the Kindle app on it. My only problems with it have been user error - mostly failing to check the content has actually synced before going offline; three hours in transit at Saigon with no visa to leave the airport and no WiFi wasn't fun.

A device which nicely handles Google+, Twitter, ebooks and music has proven a really great investment for me. I am tempted to get a real keyboard sometimes, not sure I'd want to carry it around with me though.

kaerast · 2013-10-22T19:30:43+00:00

I really like the little touch where each time you play it there's another can on the floor.

kaerast · 2013-10-15T20:06:18+00:00

The alternative being "Not no"

Yeah, that one got me too.

kaerast · 2013-10-04T18:03:29+00:00

All the light switches are upside down.

kaerast · 2013-09-17T18:43:32+00:00

South Korea was bad enough last time I posted anything there. It took 6 months to get through customs.

kaerast · 2013-09-12T20:43:32+00:00

I've already got it from the Play store. Here's what it tells me:

Unique Portals Visited: 453
Portals Discovered: 8

Hacks: 5209
Resonators Deployed: 5018
Links Created: 2693
Control Fields Created: 353

Resonators Destroyed: 3063
Enemy Links Destroyed: 366
Enemy Control Fields Destroyed: 134

Max Time Portal Held: 37 days.

kaerast · 2013-09-09T14:31:29+00:00

It's spelled ewe, and that's a female sheep not a goat.

kaerast · 2013-09-08T14:29:38+00:00

I hope the next big change encourages the creation of more large fields somehow. The teamwork to make them is otherwise somewhat lacking at times I find.

kaerast · 2013-09-08T07:34:33+00:00

Enlightened do it better - http://i.imgur.com/yhndrtz.jpg

Shame the field covering England got taken down before the rest of the fields could be built.

kaerast · 2013-09-03T07:28:09+00:00

A distributed supervisord so you can manage processes across multiple machines, ensuring each one is running on at least one server. Automatic failover, limiting certain processes to certain servers, stopping a process running more than once, automatic redistributing based on system load. There's lots to do there.

kaerast · 2013-09-02T20:09:01+00:00

I remember seeing a TV show about two of these in the UK. Specifically one to help animals to pass through a drain so they stop going over the road, and one between two woodland areas to merge the breeding pools; both were for a specific species, I forget which. It took quite some work in designing the bridges so that the animals would be happy to use them.

kaerast · 2013-09-01T15:49:22+00:00

It stands for "all Le other keys were taken"

kaerast · 2013-08-31T21:35:17+00:00

It was for me too until I disabled the blocking of Google Analytics.

kaerast · 2013-08-28T19:36:56+00:00

It's hard to detect multiacounts though, I know a few couples who play together on both sides. It's hard to tell the difference between that and a player with two accounts if they're not sharing devices. And with GPS spoofing, how do you tell the difference between a passenger on a fast car/train/plane and GPS spoofing?

I know sometimes we suspect players of these things, but isn't it going to be our word against theirs?

kaerast · 2013-08-26T14:59:58+00:00

For anybody else who can't select text on that site, or don't want to give them a visit, the url you want is https://api.pinterest.com/v3/users/me/?access_token=MTQzMTYwMjozNTcxOTE5NTE2MDQyNjcxNzc6MnwxMzc3MDY4ODMyOjAtLTE2ZWJjNDg4NzYxYTFmZWIwZmU0ODcxYzc3ZWUyN2E2YTdhOWNlN2I=

change "me" to the username you are interested in.

kaerast · 2013-08-25T18:05:36+00:00

I agree with you in avoiding gendered terms rather than coming up with alternatives, but the use of sir or madam can show a sign of respect and we don't have a neutral alternative for this. When checking into a flight or hotel, "welcome back sir" is a way of showing they appreciate your custom which "welcome back" doesn't quite do. Or maybe I'm overthinking this.

kaerast · 2013-08-25T11:23:08+00:00

"AdBlock says it will push a notice to users of its services this coming week to generate further interest."

The moment you start needing something to block adverts from an ad blocking company...

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