This is the second in a series of questions and answers about core data science topics. See more standards on my Data Science Standards page.
There are clients and servers. Clients are typically anything a person would use to access the internet, and servers are the computers that store the code web pages are built upon. Clients send requests, and servers send back responses.
Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) is the set …
read moreThis is the first in a series of questions and answers about core data science topics. See more standards on my Data Science Standards page.
There's a lot of expensive data science bootcamps out there: Galvanize, Metis, and NYC Data Academy all cost $16,000. Springboard has an online one that will cost you $5,000 to $8,000. Udacity is on the cheaper side at $200 per/month for their Machine Learning Nanodegree, but …
read moreAT&T is giving their employees $1000 dollar bonuses thanks to the GOP tax cut. They have 200,000 employees, so that's $200 million dollars that are trickling down to all those workers.
AT&T will make about $13 billion in net profit this year, and I'm not a tax …
read moreAnecdotal Evidence: Substantiating a claim with potentially biased stories, memories, etc., instead of scientific and statistically rigorous examination.
Selection bias: Inaccuracy from only studying a specific subpopulation that is different than the whole.
Confirmation bias: Inaccuracy from focusing on proving something you already believe.
Estimation: Using sample characters to generalize …
read moreDid you know you're supposed to format your commits? And not just write vaguely entertaining reminders to yourself like "Filled in some_function() but there's 3 nested for loops WHY WOULD GOD DO THIS TO ME?!" Just kidding, I would never write that. You can't write a commit message with exclamation …
read moreI have little idea how this blog works. I know we're supposed to lay out things and explain things like we're experts, and I will eventually, but for future readers admiring my tremendous insights (sarcasm?), know that when I started this I had no clue.
I spent a significant amount …
read moreIt's only like 10 weeks later, right? Lots of updates: I was in the SparkFun Autonomous Vehicle Competition, am almost done with term 1 Udacity's Self-Driving Car Nanodegree, and was accepted into both Galvanize and Metis's data science intensives, and will be taking the plunge with Metis in …
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