Definitions by cinf

Logistics 

The specific or technical details of how something occurs.

For example, the logistics of a vacation to Florida might include finding a ticket online, choosing a layover to save money, knowing what to pack, determining what to do with your car and who will meet you at the airport, the day to day packings of lunch, and so on.

Logistics is often used the refer specifically to supply chain and transportation, but this is not always the case.

We'll figure out the logistics later.

What are the logistics of your life these days?
Oh, I'm still looking for a job, but mostly play video games. I got up at 11 today and I need to buy milk.

Logistics by cinf December 26, 2020

feature engineering 

Deriving new variables from data for the purpose of analysis.

Why is this six gigs? The data set I gave you was only one gig.

Feature engineering, --sometimes I'm like my own neural network.

feature engineering by cinf May 6, 2020

data scientist 

Something like a business analyst who writes code, a hacker with social skills, or a software engineer that knows math.
Also just someone management has decided is a "data scientist".

Even though I am a data scientist, I don't think it's specific enough to describe what I do.

data scientist by cinf May 6, 2020

R 

An old programming language built for data science. A glorified, extremely useful calculator, that starts counting at 1 instead of 0.

I only switch from R to Python to do deep learning. --And to improve the performance of certain large scale processes ...Sigh, I really need to learn Julia.

R by cinf May 6, 2020

first

What people type when they are rushing to submit the first comment on YouTube.

"some other people had the same idea also, you were actually 28th but you typed first!" - Rhett and Link

first Edit, also great video!

first by cinf May 6, 2020

Lima Syndrome 

GLaDOS

There are some complexes with the relationship between GLaDOS and Chell, including the Lima Syndrome. "You want your freedom? Take it. (That's what I'm counting on.)"

Lima Syndrome by cinf December 13, 2019

Shrugocracy 

An ignorant government
OR
Indifference in bureaucracy

"Dataphobia chills them to the bone, I suspect because they hope to undermine not only some truths but all truth. David Roberts at Vox has written about what he calls an epistemic crisis in America, the idea that certain rulers and rich people hope to take away the basic idea of knowledge. If nobody can know anything, why bother to try to regulate anything? It’s government-by-ignorance—a shrugocracy."
(Wired, mass-shootings-climate-discrimination-why-governments-fear-of-data-threatens-us-all)

Shrugocracy by cinf April 20, 2018