Talk delivered 2015-07-29 at ICERM workshop on "mathematics and data science"
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/ 1-liner to rank top 20 python packages
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| find . | grep '\.py' | grep -v -e '/venv/' -e '(' -e ')' | xargs -I % grep import % | sed -e 's/^[ ]*//' | grep -e '^from ' -e '^import ' | awk '{print $2}' | sed -e 's/^[\.]*//' | cut -d\. -f1 | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' | sort -bfd | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -20 |
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/ 1-liner to rank use of 7 scipy stack core packages
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| find . | grep '\.py' | grep -v -e '/venv/' -e '(' -e ')' | xargs -I % grep import % | sed -e 's/^[ ]*//' | grep -e '^from ' -e '^import ' | awk '{print $2}' | sed -e 's/^[\.]*//' | cut -d\. -f1 | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' | sed -e 's/,$//' | sort -bfd | uniq -c | sort -nr | grep -n -e numpy -e scipy -e matplotlib -e ipython -e pandas -e sympy -e nose | tr ':' '\t' |
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/ brief history of determinism.md
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/ brown data science 2015-11-04.md
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Talk delivered 2015-12-04
a good ask to a person (target) should
- include a warm intro to target from someone trusted by the target
- provide evidence of similarity or social connection to target
- show understanding of target's perspective
- explain how target was selected
- show evidence you understand the field you are asking about
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| rm doit.out ; touch doit.out ; yes | head -200 | awk '{print "echo "NR" `lynx -dump '"'"'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/"NR"_(number)'"'"' | wc -l` >> doit.out"}' > ! /tmp/doit.sh ; source /tmp/doit.sh ; sort -n -k 2 < doit.out | head -5 |
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/ a.rb
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| On S'engage; Et Puis, On Voit | |
| Allegedly a favorite saying of Napoleon’s. Later, Lenin. | |
| - t1: "You commit yourself; and then, you see." | |
| - t2: "First engage in a serious battle and then see what happens." | |
| - t3: "One jumps into the fray, then figures out what to do next," |
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| long ago @wbialek pointed out to me the irony of his 2 most infamous quotes | |
| - 1) "If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment." and | |
| - 2) "All science is either physics or stamp collecting." | |
| is that, | |
| - in the first case, his field of particle physics ended up | |
| becoming far and away the most statistics-dependent of any subfield in physics, and | |
| - in the second case, that his Nobel prize ended up being in chemistry not physics |