Luck and Risk
“Luck and risk are both the reality that every outcome in life is guided by forces other than individual effort. They are so similar that you can’t believe in one without equally respecting the other. They both happen because the…
Short Stories
Collection of short posts and short stories.
AI and Educating Intuition
In the vast swamp of ignorance that has been the debate about AI in the workplace, I’ve slowly been coming to the conclusion… There is a large number of people with full time knowledge work jobs that don’t understand the…
Excessive planning is a fools game
The trouble with being so emotionally invested in planning for the future, though, is that while it may occasionally prevent a catastrophe, the rest of the time it tends to exacerbate the very anxiety it was supposed to allay. The…
The Book of the New Sun Pt1 – The Shadow of the Torturer Review
I was 17-18 the first time I read The Book of the New Sun, and I remember it melting my mind. For the first time everything I’d hated about English classes: the interpretation of what authors meant, the use of…
It’s called France
Source: How English costs the English — Janan Ganesh, FT
Why is D3 Code So Long and Complicated (or Why is it So Verbose)?
D3 is a b***h of a language at first glance. It’s long. It’s complicated and verbose. You have to enter what feels like an obscene amount of key strokes to draw one line. I’m currently about one-third of the way…
Part 7 of 7 – My First Predictive Analytics Project
This is the end of a long series of posts. Here I show an example of how I put together the data story for my market basket analysis. This is the final post in My First Predictive Analytics Project series.…
Part 6 of 7 – My First Predictive Analytics Project
Part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, and part 5 can be found here. Ready to learn how support, confidence, and lift work in a market basket analysis? Alright. Let’s go. Let’s think of our Market Basket Analysis like…
Market Basket Analysis Tools: From Excel to Python (Part 5 of 7)
Part 1, part 2, part 3, and part 4 can be found here. Ready to read about the tools you need to run a Market Basket Analysis? Great. Let’s go. There are many challenges to running a Market Basket Analysis.…
Part 4 of 7 – My First Predictive Analytics Project
Part 1, part 2, and part 3 of “My First Predictive Analytics Project” can be found…at those URLs I just linked to. Ready to read about predictive analytics encoding problems? Good. Let’s go. If you’ve missed a few of these:…