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Agreed, not the best analogy... especially because as I understand a lot more is invested in horses than jockeys (in actual competitive horse racing). But, I think that's the point.
I suppose it may be possible to decipher the stopping points, but if there's a final circle to confirm the code/cover them up, I could see that working.
edit: added "(circular)" to clarify
I guess maybe we understood him differently, because I thought that was the point he was getting at.
Regardless, I agree with the idea of "targeted practice" of each section. It's been awhile since I've done any serious piano playing, but my strategy for perfecting a piece was always to nail the final 4-8 bars 5x in a row. Then I would keep adding another 4-8 bars to the beginning of that and repeat the process until I could play the whole thing through.
I found working from the end to be much more effective than from the start. My guess is that it's less tedious since the new part is at the beginning, so if you're restarting after each mistake, you end up focusing on the new material instead of racing through the old boring material to get to the new stuff.
I like not having having the score displayed, but I also like the option of seeing the score. My suggestion would be to keep scores off the main page but perhaps add an option to "click and see the score".
Not sure what the perfect solution would be, but to sum it up: scores should be accessible, but with traction.
My strategy for this is to keep a bucket of that crap and shred every 6 months or so at a pro location. I've considered pulping the docs myself (mostly out of curiosity in the process), but from what I can tell, pragmatically it's more work than it is worth.
>if you're like me, ask them to shred it right then and there
In fact, the "Changing Definition of Geek" section makes this abundantly clear. It asks NOTHING about what the definition is. What it does ask is if it's positive/negative to be a geek and if it's a more common phenomena to be a geek now than in the past.
I think it would be better phrased: "Changing Connotation of Geek".
Prompt/early payment aside, I have not experienced this and I've done a lot more apt maintenance than not call about toilets or lightbulbs. First of all, as mentioned in another comment, in both the case of my landlords and my father's business:
>they have full-time maintenance person anyway, so there's no feedback loop.
Unless you're a royal pain in the ass, I doubt they'll raise rent more than they do for anyone else. Otherwise, the delta convenience/hassle isn't enough for them notice or care to give you a deal.
edit: Anecdotally, if you happen to be renting a house from a small property owner who does not have a maintenance worker, then perhaps this may work (not me personally, but a friend). That said, you still probably want to find a place with a proper building manager.
I always try to give the benefit of the doubt. I can think of plenty of times where I only realize after the fact that I was distracted/in a bad mood and unduly acted rude towards someone.
I'm almost certain we agree, just want to add two clarifying points for those interested:
+You probably want to try experimenting with different combinations of datasets for left-censored, right-censored and full lifetime cases. Or, at least segmenting that way when you perform the survival analysis (Haven't checked out noahnoahnoah's references yet, so they may mention this).
+Also, the other tricky thing is when it's a subscription service (3,6,12 month sort of thing). Main reason this introduces complications is that you need to account for a "unsubscribe signal" that may not sync well with the next prompt to renew. So rather than predict a survival likelihood at the unit of analysis (I assume monthly, maybe weekly) you need to generate a likelihood for the point in time when the user is prompted to renew (and again, you can also vary that to move it up before the real end of the subscription). It's not particularly hard to grasp at a general level, but it takes a lot of careful thinking of edge cases.*
*That description may be a little convoluted, to simplify: What happens when a 12mo subscription shows signs of leaving only 6mo in?
One thing I like to tack onto the setup described is a survival analysis. I've done it mostly in SAS due to my clients, but it's just as easy (and free) in R. Essentially I'm using survival analysis to see what signs indicate someone who is likely to leave/downgrade/upgrade.
Can't really go into details, but essentially I was checking on: minutes played / # of friends who played the same games / freq of games purchased / freq of in-game purchases / purchase method (online vs. in-store giftcard) / plus a lot more. This was in order to predict likelihood of renewing at the next subscription term. Ostensibly this was to intervene and make an offer to retain a customer or squeeze more out of them. Can't say for sure what ultimately happened with the analysis and tools I delivered: I do know it helped someone score a new job.
I can't offer any of the original code (but I could write up some of the basic structure if there's some interest).
It didn't fall into the trap of trying to ornament charts by substituting icon for point on a chart or create 3D or otherwise exotic charts that are nearly impossible to interpret. Simply stuck to telling a story and that seems to work.
[edit: I should add. I definitely fall into the category of "Data Scientist". So while I have a lot of appreciation for quality visualization, I think in this case it was best to stick with a narrative and not try to incorporate anything quantitative into the visuals.]
(not a criticism, I agree it's arguable)
I would suggest that the availability of pirated music is approaching a fairly good level of saturation. It also keeps pace with new releases and in most cases offers a much greater variety of older/niche music.
I always try to buy what I can, but sometime it's not an option.
That said, Andrew Gelman posted his thoughts on it awhile back.
http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2009... http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2009...
Really loved this piece of advice and highly recommend. It's something I always do before an interview/presentation/important talk.
1) As Alex mentions, this is FAR more useful in the moment than a list of bullet points or the like.
2) Like a lot of note-taking, I find that the act of thinking about and creating the mindmap has advantages in and of itself. Often the act of carefully creating it means that I don't actually need to refer to it later. I personally find this with a lot of note taking. I spend a lot of time carefully taking notes - generally a bunch of notes, comments and citations connected by a bunch of lines in different colored inks, kind of a mix of "traditional" note taking and a bit of a mindmap. The time I spend really thinking about how to best present and relate all the ideas on a single page often leads to internalizing the content so well that I never really need the notes unless I'm coming back months later.
Also, wouldn't breaking the hash nullify one of the ostensible advantages of this method (the de-dupe of the stored files)? If the goal is solving global file distribution, making each copy of every originally-identical file unique - and therefore requiring n times the storage - isn't a viable solution.
Still, not really forgivable to be 100% AWS, but it's a very different story if this is primarily a recording device vs. a monitoring device.
It would probably be hard to track to any specific address (that's what I am looking into now) but by matching date with the coordinates it was trivial to see where I went for: 4th of July, my friends bachelor party and wedding, Halloween, Thanksgiving and New Year's Eve... among other events.
It seems that you can vote for both options. After I voted, the other choice still has the 'upvote arrow'. I didn't try to see if it worked since I don't want to vote for the other option.
Is this intended? I never noticed on any other polls, but maybe I just wasn't paying attention.