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Ah, the good folks at meclabs and their CEO, doctor Flint, phd, who lies that he has a phd.


Uuuh, this exists at A LOT of banks.


Because "data science".


What's the progress? Last time I checked, they were able to play slightly modified abc (i.e. take opponent's range into account) and have negligible winrate at micro to small stakes before rakeback.


Donating money if you are not (filthy) rich is foolish. Those money would be MUCH better spent on you. If you want to help, do it with personal efforts.


What makes you think so?


Because your money would not be spent efficiently.


I don't get it. If you are looking for pure efficiency, most people on here are much better working in IT and giving money to efficient charities.

If by personal efforts you mean helping out in a soup kitchen or flying to Detroit to help struggling kids---that's pretty inefficient.

Or did you mean something else?


Only people who do nothing and just watch don't make mistakes.


Yeah, yeah, every Joe Startup wants to change the world with their Airbnb for dogs.


Yeah, I want to hear about estimating competitor sales too.


Maybe i'll do a write-up in the future. I assume everyone does it already, but on the off chance they don't.... i don't see any upside in writing about something that might help my competition.


I hear a lot of talk about using python for data analysis. I gave up after trying to find a library to do cross tabs. Is there something to make custom tables in python other than prettytables?



Perhaps I should have been more clear. I want to present the results in pdf or html. Like xtables, tables and stargazer packages in R.


I haven't used xtables or stargazer in a while, but ipython + pandas can display tables as html.

Here is an interesting ipython notebook with some examples:

http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/gist/chris1610/f2f4a2e9181f6ec22...


Oooo, I'm going to have to look at that qgrid widget. I've been frustrated when I had to dump a df (DataFrame) to Excel to browse a large df.


You can easily export any pandas DataFrame to html using the to_html() method. To generate full webpage, you'll probably want a templating engine like Jinja2.

The best demo I've seen for generating a PDF report is on Practical Business Python[1]

Edit: I forgot to mention the new pandas Style[1] feature for generating some impressive looking html tables.

[1] http://pbpython.com/pdf-reports.html

[2] http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/style.html


He said that? Can you please provide the quote?


Ok - it seems he tweeted rather than said it:

>“Through transparent auctions with a ready provision of land, transmission and the like, solar tariffs have come down below thermal power cost,” Goyal said in a tweet.

http://cleantechnica.com/2016/01/22/solar-power-now-cheaper-...


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