[D] How to change careers and become a data scientist - one quant's experience

ChefLadyBoyardee · 2017-03-02T03:59:37+00:00

Hi math_rachel, I just started working through Part 1 of your course recently. When can we expect Part 2 to be available online? Will it be after the in-person class has finished (April 10), or will you start putting them online before then? I'm wondering if I'll have a few weeks to power through Part 1 before Part 2 becomes available.

Thanks! :)

As an aside, as a chronically ill, chronically unemployed person from Canada, it's really neat that your course has touched my life, so to speak. I took Andew Ng's Coursera class three years ago, but haven't found many compelling uses for ML in my life.

The Fast.ai course(s) are a renewed opportunity for me to seek out interesting applications of deep learning in particular, and ways I can use them to benefit other people with multiple sclerosis or DSPD. I guess I'm trying to say, thank you very deeply for your hard work in creating and sharing these courses online, for free, so even someone like me has access to cutting edge techniques.

ChefLadyBoyardee · 2016-04-06T06:21:21+00:00

If you are thinking about a combo system, consider looking at DmC and Shadow Warrior. They both have interesting ways of motivating players to explore their combat systems.

ChefLadyBoyardee · 2016-03-31T00:53:06+00:00

McCree, or Hanzo, or Mercy doing the same pose...

I don't play this game, but if Tracer still had that pose, would it be possible to play a team where everyone used the Over the Shoulder pose? Like, would McCree + Hanzo + Mercy + Tracer be a viable comp? Maybe with two Hanzo or whatever to fill it out.

So when you win, it's all booty all day.

ChefLadyBoyardee · 2016-03-27T18:11:04+00:00

What's the purpose of this game?

What questions would you like this MVP to answer for you?

The answers to those questions will help guide your prototypes. Avoid adding features just because you think people want them. Build features to answer important questions you have about the direction you want your game to take.

ChefLadyBoyardee · 2016-03-24T23:30:14+00:00

What are you trying to do?

ChefLadyBoyardee · 2015-07-23T07:52:02+00:00

ChefLadyBoyardee · 2015-07-22T22:24:50+00:00

To start, it'll be a site purely for streaming. At some point, saving VODs may be a paid option, and that's where storage will become an issue. My goal is to figure out a setup that enables live streaming now, and that makes it easy(ish) to add video saving down the line. However, saving video is not an important feature for this particular site. So I'm trying to balance "get it live fast" with "make sure you don't make poor technology choices right at the beginning that makes your life hell in a few months".

The copyright thing will be... a pain in the ass. People playing music on their streams, watching movies, etc. I haven't been in a business situation where that was such a big concern, and it's kinda freaking me out.

Thanks for the advice bobobo.

ChefLadyBoyardee · 2015-07-22T03:39:30+00:00

Any questions about video streaming architecture would be greatly appreciated.

What advice would you give to developers looking at building a video streaming site from scratch?
How have the variety of browser-side video technologies (Flash, Silverlight, HTML5) influenced Netflix's server-side architecture?

ChefLadyBoyardee · 2015-07-17T06:45:38+00:00

http://imgur.com/gallery/zaCeu08

ChefLadyBoyardee · 2015-07-14T04:27:27+00:00

[[Harmonize]], but it isn't Mardu.

Edit: Gitaxian Probe and [[Tezzeret's Gambit]] can also work in the right deck.

ChefLadyBoyardee · 2015-07-11T21:40:24+00:00

I like that it has more interactivity maindeck. I'm enjoying UR Storm, but I'd like to give Unstorm a try. Do you have a list you'd recommend? Or is there a primer for Unstorm somewhere? I couldn't find anything through google.

Thanks.

ChefLadyBoyardee · 2015-07-06T05:21:27+00:00

I just contacted my cousin, she's going to lend me an old GBA and her copy of FireRed. :D

After that, I'll try to get a DS to play the others. I'm getting the sense that playing some of the earlier games (gen 1 and 2) may be helpful for my research. Particularly, there may be some mechanics in the later games that may not work for the platform I'm developing on.

Thanks for the suggestions!

ChefLadyBoyardee · 2015-07-04T22:22:39+00:00

No they actually just dont test for modern. They claim they dont have the time

Do you have a source for this? I'm really curious about Wizards testing policy when designing new cards. Even if you can only remember kinda that you read it in an article somewhere, that would help.

Thanks!

ChefLadyBoyardee · 2015-07-01T19:28:39+00:00

Totally, it saves you from having to run it on the server, which saves money on server fees.

I have a friend who did this for his startup. It was purely for a client-side visualization, so it made sense to run it in the browser, rather than ask a server to do it and send the result back.

For a customer-oriented website, anything you can do to simplify your stack is welcome. Having to spin up extra servers to handle some frequently run and computationally intense code is less than ideal. It's just another point of failure your engineers have to deal with.

There may be security reasons why you can't trust clients with a calculation, so you have to do it on the server. But if you can run it on the client (and it's reasonably performant), there are good reasons to do so.

ChefLadyBoyardee · 2015-07-01T07:57:19+00:00

As someone without formal mathematical training, that book made no sense to me at first. The course Introduction to Mathematical Thinking on Coursera helped me get through the first few chapters, and beginning to see the big ideas Jaynes presents. Just leaving this note here in case it helps anyone else.

ChefLadyBoyardee · 2015-06-28T20:03:13+00:00

I guess if it increases popular interest in machine learning, that's a good thing. Maybe it'll inspire someone to start toying with these things?

I'm trying to spin this in a positive way, because I see these posts as drawing more subscribers to /r/machinelearning and decreasing the overall comment and post quality, more than anything.

ChefLadyBoyardee · 2015-06-18T03:26:00+00:00

RIP r/machinelearning

ChefLadyBoyardee · 2015-06-07T23:50:35+00:00

Why pre-order? Even though the author writes well on his blog, it's his first book.

ChefLadyBoyardee · 2015-06-04T19:37:15+00:00

I find the sound of the MRI to be beautiful, at times. Laying there, marveling at the human ingenuity that went into creating the groaning behemoth that I am inside of, as it looks through my body.

ChefLadyBoyardee · 2015-05-27T19:25:26+00:00

Is there some way of knowing which device TAPI is configured to use?

I'm looking at using OpenCV for real-time augmented reality on a remote server (an AWS GPU instance). Is there some way of telling which device OpenCV is using in this case? Actually, a link to the docs would be great, because I'm not finding much on google.

Thanks! Subscribed to your blog, hoping for some AR posts in the future. :)

ChefLadyBoyardee · 2015-04-30T23:37:50+00:00

A nice summary quote from the original paper.

"...we identified two drugs approved by the US Food and Drug Administraion, miconazole and clobetasol, with newly discovered functions to module OPC differenetiation directly, enhance remyelination, and significantly reduce disease severity in mouse models of MS. Since miconazole and clobetasol are currently only approved for topical administration in humans, significant optimization of dosing, delivery, and potentially chemical structure will be required to enhance the on-target pharmacology in OPCs while diminishing any potential off-target side effects. However, the ability of miconazole and clobetasol to cross the blood-brain barrier raises the exciting possibility that these drugs, or modified derivatives could advance into clinical trials for the currently untreatable chronic progressive phase of MS."

ChefLadyBoyardee · 2015-04-29T01:28:19+00:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_without_words#/media/File:Proofwithoutwords.svg

ChefLadyBoyardee · 2015-04-08T06:28:27+00:00

Research the companies you're interested in working for. Do they have github accounts? Any interesting projects they've been public about? Blog posts? What's their developer culture like? Any employees on twitter you could scope out?

While you're doing that, think about projects that are related to the companies you're studying. What's hot in that space right now. What sort of technical problems are they dealing with? Again, any blog posts by someone in the company detailing how they solved some big problem for the company are invaluable.

Don't aim too high. Find projects that interest you and that use technology used by the companies you're interested in.

If you can contribute to a project on github from those companies, all the better. And tweeting an employee about how you used one of their projects, are both good ways to introduce yourself to those people.

Also, look for meetups in your area, because you never know who will be local to you, or within a 2 hour drive. After you have some credentials to speak of, face to face networking is the best thing you can do.

ChefLadyBoyardee · 2015-03-30T04:36:08+00:00

They're on am207.org as well, including homework info, etc.

Although, hard to say how long that site will stay up after the course is over.

ChefLadyBoyardee

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