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Why Are so Many Babies Born around 8:00 A.M.?

Zan Armstrong

Unpacking how schedules and methods of birth influence the birthday timestamp in the US, featuring cool data visualizations.

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Data scientists work alone and that's bad

Ethan Rosenthal

"The norm is that of a lonely life for the data scientist. Whether they lie near analytics, machine learning, or elsewhere in the large latent space that spans this ill-defined role, just like in the curse of high-dimensionality, they are likely alone."

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Building AI Trading Systems

Denny Britz

"Machine Learning can give you an edge, but probably not an edge so huge that it allows you to ignore other factors. You still need to build good infrastructure, collect good data, and have low latencies."

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