got family in the US to sponsor your green card? WELCOME! you have a right to everything including social security. you can flip burgers or work for nasa..we don't care. and you can get your citizenship in just a few years.

got skills? advanced stem degrees from the US? indentured servitude visa for you...maybe! green card is a dream. you must be employed in this specific thing or else! YOU MUST COMPLY! YOU ARE A FOREIGNER! YOU WILL BE A FOREIGNER FOR A DECADE! GET USED TO IT OR GO BACK HOME!

if you are lucky enough to get the capped h1b visas, once you get it you can get another employer to petition for another h1b while you are in the country so in that sense it is "transferable". however, the tie is established if the employee wants to get a green card. they have to do it through A (1) employer...which can take years. a decade is not unheard of. if the employees goes to another employer, he/she has to start over.

acid isn't so important when the unit is a patient's records. there is also no need for a rigid data model.

it's not just the data size, it's also b/c the data is unstructured and of various kinds..nothing nice and tabular. also this data is being generated by complex processes...where a fresh algorithmic and/or domain expertise can help.

this doesn't mean that stats aren't needed.

dubai doesn't have much oil. sigh.

since it has cutting-edge stat functions that's plenty of functionality that R has that other languages DON'T have.

there is (practically) NO "normal" channel! you literally have to be lucky to get a green card. got skills? let's see you go through a gauntlet of legal procedures that are complex, illlogical, and inconsistent.
http://reason.com/assets/db/07...

julia is nowhere near, in intent, as well as development, the statistical tasks needed by the poster.

if your company is using SAS, then i don't think what you're doing is data science. analysis is not data science.

pls provide evidence that immigration suppresses wages. (are you an economist?)

what about the pollution emitted in creating the ethanol in the first place?

i think he included coding projects that he supervised.

by carefully constructing python statements and calling libraries you can get the speed you want from a 'python' program. if you can fit your problem in this way, then yea it makes sense to go to fortran or C.

summary of economist opinion which i'd rather listen to instead of the usual /. protectionist BS:
- the effect of importing low-skill labor, at worse, leads to some shuffling at the low-end and possibly even increasing slightly the wage of natives (since they have an advantage)
- the effect of high-skill labor is to increase GDP per capita and replenish social security.

seriously if you don't want skilled foreigners coming in, then you shouldn't support training for native workers since that also increases the supply. so which is it?? even if it does lower wage: deal with it.. you're supposed to be a capitalist huh? isn't that the american way?? find some other job or move elsewhere or accept lower wage. otherwise the jobs WILL go somewhere else.

it's like asking your neighbors not to have 6 kids b/c they take 'your' jobs. pathetic.

however, if your book is 500pgs long you can't possibly go through it all. most likely the prof will test you on the subject matter he/she has gone through in class. you need notes for that.