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christopheraden

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February 12, 2013 (13y ago)
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Data Scientist in Silicon Valley.

Programmers have unit tests, statisticians have model checking. Be careful! A disregard for a model's underlying assumptions can invalidate the conclusion.

Email: christopherBaden at gmail.

Known Languages: C (used infrequently), Python (used somewhat regularly), R (used daily), SAS (thankfully, used infrequently), SQL (used daily), Profanity (used daily).

Statistical Interests: Computational statistics, Bayesian inference, "embarrassingly parallel" statistical algorithms.

Applied Interests: Fraud, Data Science, Experimental Design, Interpretable Machine Learning

Favorite Reading Topics: The Hadleyverse (and most other R topics), parallel/concurrent programming, machine learning, applied statistical analyses

Religion: Bayesian

  1. Evidence Confirms That D-Wave Computers Are Truly Quantum (businessinsider.com)
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  2. EFF Sues Liberation Music for Forcing Larry Lessig Video Off YouTube (eff.org)
    1 points 0
  3. Ask HN: What are good resources for modern web development?

    The last time I took a plunge into web development, I was a teenager, it was the early 2000s, and it was still considered cool to design your website in Dreamweaver with Flash and Shockwave plugins. I have a feeling…

    2 points 2
  4. Ask HN: How can I get my team to adopt SCM?

    I don't work among programmers. Everyone on my team has a statistics degree, and most only had one or two CS classes in their undergraduate (for many, this was 15-25 years ago) and do not follow any of the practices or…

    2 points 4
  5. Sad to see Google Reader go? Come on, folks...it's 2013. (zdnet.com)
    2 points 1
  6. Yahoo’s broken glass ceiling (bostonglobe.com)
    2 points 0