John D. Cook on math consulting, Python and going solo [audio]

Re:John D. Cook on math consulting, Python and going solo [a... by JabavuAdams on Friday March 17, 2017 @08:34PM (#13899185)

I was excited to see this, but I found that the interviewer spent too much time talking. I got too frustrated and stopped listening. I want to hear what Cook has to say, and the interviewer is only there to facilitate that.

I'd encourage the interviewer to go back over the audio, and measure the amount of time he's talking vs. the amount of time that John Cook is talking. If it's greater than 20% or so, then that's a problem.

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Re:John D. Cook on math consulting, Python and going solo [a... by Radim on Friday March 17, 2017 @09:16PM (#13899345)

Duly noted!

In the first episode, I got feedback that people wanted to hear more from me. Perhaps I went too much in the opposite direction here. Converging, slowly :)

Btw the aim is 50/50 -- these are not meant to be "interviews".

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Re:John D. Cook on math consulting, Python and going solo [a... by ouid on Saturday March 18, 2017 @10:58AM (#13901525)

If you already have a specific aim for a ratio of you talking to the subject talking, why do you take feedback?

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Re:John D. Cook on math consulting, Python and going solo [a... by JabavuAdams on Friday March 17, 2017 @11:11PM (#13899682)

Interesting. You're right in that it's not an interview -- my terminology was misleading.

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Re:John D. Cook on math consulting, Python and going solo [a... by p1esk on Saturday March 18, 2017 @03:31AM (#13900315)

I'd rather hear more from the creator of Gensim. Has John D. Cook built anything impressive?

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Re:John D. Cook on math consulting, Python and going solo [a... by aangjie on Saturday March 18, 2017 @06:09AM (#13900664)

Umm.. I have nothing against gensim or the author, but aren't you assuming that JDC hasn't. He has been working in consulting and probably under a lot of NDA contract clauses and has not been able to publish? I don't know his work, just like his blog.

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Re:John D. Cook on math consulting, Python and going solo [a... by doug1001 on Saturday March 18, 2017 @10:09AM (#13901311)

well his blog, which he has continuously published on for (at least) the last five years, is certainly impressive.

His posts are practical-minded but also evidence a deep knowledge of the subject matter. The ones on applied probability theory, for instance, are of very high quality.

(i don't know John personally, nor any affiliation with him)

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