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Comment by dmolling on A command-line grammar of graphics · 2021-03-31T13:27:32.095Z · LW · GW

Said this in a separate comment but wanted to add here that there is a python library wrapper for this which is pretty nice also: https://altair-viz.github.io/getting_started/overview.html

Comment by dmolling on A command-line grammar of graphics · 2021-03-31T13:25:21.898Z · LW · GW

Altair is another somewhat more pythonic library based on the grammar of graphics. It's also great for interactive visualizations. 

https://altair-viz.github.io/getting_started/overview.html

Comment by dmolling on Should We Still Fly? · 2019-12-20T16:59:46.882Z · LW · GW

Thanks for doing the math on that! That's really useful information. I was under the impression that flying was a bigger issue than those numbers suggest--I hadn't ever bothered to do the calculation myself.

Comment by dmolling on Is Rationalist Self-Improvement Real? · 2019-12-12T15:38:10.505Z · LW · GW

For the record, I didn't actually downvote you--just wanted to share why I suspect others did. I agree with your full reasoning and didn't mean to imply you thought that was the only significant difference. I mostly agree with what habryka is saying, though.

Comment by dmolling on Is Rationalist Self-Improvement Real? · 2019-12-10T20:08:09.269Z · LW · GW

I'm sympathetic to the point you're making - practice is a very different thing from reading. But, how you wrote it reads as overly harsh.

EDIT: to be more specific, calling that lumping "ridiculous" and saying nothing at all could be concluded from the poll were both far harsher than warranted IMO

Comment by dmolling on Follow-Up to Petrov Day, 2019 · 2019-10-02T15:33:30.915Z · LW · GW

I clicked the button :( But, I clicked it because the first thing I saw on the page was a big shiny button and hadn't been on the site in a few day and didn't know what it would do. I would not have entered codes if I'd had them. Maybe give a more noticeable warning next to the button next time? Maybe something like "Warning, pressing this button will..." in red text.

Fun experiment

Comment by dmolling on Crypto quant trading: Intro · 2019-04-18T14:25:05.878Z · LW · GW

Just commenting to say thanks for sharing this! I'm a statistician currently dipping more into python/ML (mostly an R background) with a casual interest in trading and this looks like a great set of material to work through while learning.