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Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak Tests Positive For Coronavirus

"With my case, I want to underscore the importance of Nevadans to stay at home as much as they possibly can at this time," Sisolak said, as cases continue to rise throughout the state. (Image credit: Steve Marcus/AP) News : NPR https://ift.tt/3eWyD5W November 14, 2020 at 05:54AM
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Father And Son Charged With Murder In Ahmaud Arbery Killing Are Denied Bond

"I'm relieved they'll stay behind bars," Arbery's mother said. She had asked a judge to keep the pair in jail, saying "Ahmaud wasn't allowed to go home. Ahmaud wasn't even allowed the chance to live." (Image credit: Lewis Levine/AP) News : NPR https://ift.tt/2IFtweE November 14, 2020 at 05:34AM
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#FunDataFriday – #BlackInDataWeek

[This article was first published on #FunDataFriday - Little Miss Data , and kindly contributed to R-bloggers ]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here ) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. WHAT IS IT? #BlackInDataWeek is a free, online data conference taking place November 16-21, 2020. Straight from their website , #BlackInDataWeek is: > “ A week-long celebration to (1) highlight the valuable work and experiences of Black people in the field of Data, (2) provide community, and (3) educational and professional resources. ” WHY IS IT AWESOME? I can’t possibly list all of the reasons why this event is awesome. Just look at the description above, it’s full of goodness! The organizers have created a very exciting event structured to provide community, support and growth for Black people working in data. Also, the sessions are on fire! I’ve added nearly all of them to my calendar. They offer...
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New Jersey Should Be More Aggressive In Stopping COVID-19 Spread, Epidemiologists Say

Shoppers at the American Dream mall in October 2020 NJ's most recent positivity rates have ranged between 8% and 12%. [ more › ] Gothamist https://ift.tt/3eWtUkK November 14, 2020 at 04:30AM
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Boy Scouts Of America Sexual Abuse Victims Seek Justice In Bankruptcy Court

The organization ignored decades of sex abuse allegations, but it could now pay the price. More than 60,000 men say they were abused as scouts, ahead of Monday's deadline to file a claim. (Image credit: John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune via Getty Images) News : NPR https://ift.tt/32Gmz3O November 14, 2020 at 04:01AM
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The Atlantic Daily: 9 Nostalgic TV Shows to Watch

Every weekday evening, our editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and surprise you with moments of delight. Subscribe to get this delivered to your inbox . A worsening pandemic may leave many Americans stripped of holiday comforts. Although an old TV show is no substitute for a hug from a loved one, perhaps some solace can be found in the familiar faces of beloved characters . I asked writers and editors from around our newsroom to share a nostalgic TV pick. TWIN PEAKS (NETFLIX) Twin Peaks , a disorienting mystery about the murder of a beloved high schooler, isn’t exactly built for bingeing. But the early-’90s cult phenomenon from David Lynch and Mark Frost remains an enthralling watch. Its masterpiece of a first season takes its time , challenging the viewer by slowly doling out reveals and creating a sense that everything and everyone—even the characters investigating the case—are just a little off . Come for the spooky scares, bu...
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Marlins Name Kim Ng MLB's First Female General Manager

She is leaving her senior vice president position at Major League Baseball to join the Miami team. Over all, Ng has three decades of baseball experience. (Image credit: Marcelo Maragni/MLB Photos via Getty Images) News : NPR https://ift.tt/32L8aDD November 14, 2020 at 03:36AM
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NYC R Meetup: Slides on Future

[This article was first published on JottR on R , and kindly contributed to R-bloggers ]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here ) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. I presented Future: Simple, Friendly Parallel Processing for R (65 minutes; 59 slides + Q&A slides) at New York Open Statistical Programming Meetup , on November 9, 2020: HTML (incremental Google Slides; requires online access) PDF (flat slides) Video (presentation starts at 0h10m30s, Q&A starts at 1h17m40m) I like to thanks everyone who attented and everyone who asked lots of brilliant questions during the Q&A. I’d also want to express my gratitude to Amada, Jared, and Noam for the invitation and making this event possible. It was great fun. – Henrik Links Relevant packages mentioned in this talk: future package: CRAN , GitHub future.apply package: CRAN , GitHub furrr package: CRAN , GitHub foreach...
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Round about the kernel

[This article was first published on R on OSM , and kindly contributed to R-bloggers ]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here ) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. In our last post , we took our analysis of rolling average pairwise correlations on the constituents of the XLI ETF one step further by applying kernel regressions to the data and comparing those results with linear regressions. Using a cross-validation approach to analyze prediction error and overfitting potential, we found that kernel regressions saw average error increase between training and validation sets, while the linear models saw it decrease. We reasoned that the decrease was due to the idiosyncrasies of the time series data: models trained on volatile markets, validating on less choppy ones. Indeed, we felt we should trust the kernel regression results more than the linear ones precisely because those results followed the commo...
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