interested in scientific computing and data science. May also be somewhat of a python zealot.

Washington DC area
Joined April 2014
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Today is release day! We're announcing a new initiative to tackle the fragmentation in Python array/tensor and dataframe libraries: data-apis.org/blog/announcin…. Major challenge, with hopefully major benefits for the whole ecosystem.
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🗓️ Next week (April 16th) the default Python version used to run your builds will be updated from Python 2.7 to Python 3.6 changelog.travis-ci.com/upco… Questions? Meet us in the community forum: travis-ci.community/c/langua…
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Theano was years ahead of its time.
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#blockchain can be used to create a worldwide, open, free, distributed and indexed knowledge database > bitcoinmagazine.com/articles… • #research
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Computer Science: "In low-level languages like C" Computer Engineering: "In high-level languages like C"
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How redundant are DC|Chicago|LA|Nairobi bus|metro systems? An #OpenDataDayDC follow-up . modelingwithdata.org/arch/00…
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Data Scientists Frustrated by Data Variety, Find Hadoop Limiting - klou.tt/3sk52oedjmq2
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Congrats to the newly-launched (#US) National Data Service! nationaldataservice.org/ #opendata #openscience via @iainh_z
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Apache Spark 1.0 looks to outshine MapReduce for #BigData #Analytics crunching: searchdatamanagement.techtar… via @sDataManagement
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I like articles on "how" to do time series analytics in SQL but it never seems like a good idea: no0p.github.io/postgresql/20…
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Where are the Deep Learning Courses? buff.ly/QZYBss< interested in hands-on classes in DC? read here.
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Statistician, Data Scientist, or Both? gss.civilservice.gov.uk/blog…
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Huge fraction of attendees at #pydata code for a living but not have CS degrees.
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Why becoming a #DataScientist is NOT actually easier than you think: medium.com/cs-math/5b65b5480… by @josephmisiti #BigData #Analytics
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Why Do We Need #DataScience when We’ve Had Statistics forever? Here's the answer: blog.irvingwb.com/blog/2014/… Hint: #BigData #Analytics ≠ Stats
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Introducing CyToolz - Functional programming in Python, now at C speeds. Great work by @eriknwelch ! matthewrocklin.com/blog/work…
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HDFS and HDF5 are unfortunately named. 1337 speakers couldn't differentiate between these storage systems. That angle in the five is crucial
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Majid alDosari retweeted
Replying to @HarlanH
RT @HarlanH: Why building a data science team is deceptively hard | Codecademy buff.ly/1nMmFdT