Run Any Scheduled Task/Cron Super-Cheap on Google Cloud Platform
Thanks to a few new synergies within GCP products, it’s possible to get the cost of running a scheduled task down to less than a dollar a month.
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Things About Real-World Data Science Not Discussed In MOOCs and Thought Pieces
MOOCs and thought pieces overfit to a certain style of data science that is not robust to the vast uncertainties of the real world.
Problems with Predicting Post Performance on Reddit and Other Link Aggregators
The nature of algorithmic feeds like Reddit inherently leads to a survivorship bias: although users may recognize certain types of posts that appear on the front page, there are many more which follow the same patterns but fail.
Analyzing IMDb Data The Intended Way, with R and ggplot2
For IMDb’s big-but-not-big data, you have to play with the data smartly, and both R and ggplot2 have neat tricks to do just that.
How to Quickly Train a Text-Generating Neural Network for Free
Train your own text-generating neural network and generate text whenever you want with just a few clicks!