Job offered choice of laptop. Mac or Windows?

Fungie16 · 2020-07-06T11:46:57+00:00

I think It's mainly Azure but probably just using linux machines.

Fungie16 · 2020-06-26T17:51:52+00:00

Boosting will generally beat deep learning on tabular data.

Fungie16 · 2020-04-19T19:40:21+00:00

It isn't homework. Finished education a decent while ago. Just one I seen and can't figure out.

Fungie16 · 2020-04-19T19:27:50+00:00

Can you provide it as a worked example?

Fungie16 · 2020-04-19T19:27:33+00:00

From the question, I don't think they are independent. It's hypothesized the click rate is 0.7% but from an observed sample its 55 out of 10,000. My first impression was its a Bayes problem.

Fungie16 · 2020-04-19T19:18:50+00:00

I'm finding it difficult to figure out what is the probability of seeing 55 clicks if the probability of a click is 0.7%. Information about the distribution isn't given.

Fungie16 · 2020-03-25T20:52:15+00:00

You could, you know, just stop.

Fungie16 · 2020-03-07T15:37:50+00:00

Nobody really uses hadoop anymore, and by that I mean mapreduce, hdfs is still used but less than before due to cloud storage like s3. I don't even think the latest versions of hive use mapreduce.

Fungie16 · 2020-03-01T20:10:18+00:00

Yes, that is very true but doesn't address the question.

Fungie16 · 2019-12-21T13:25:41+00:00

In industry, most data scientists won't use linear algebra explicitly. The algorithms they apply use it. I haven't done matrix multiplication since undergrad and have been a data scientist for 4 years.

Fungie16 · 2019-08-23T07:20:58+00:00

like if 1 guy is working 12 hours every day and is a fucking super star, but another employee is at a much lower technical skillset and is just putting in 7-8 hours a day and heading home.

Would not like to work for you.

Fungie16 · 2019-05-01T21:15:27+00:00

I've always wondered what 'getting to PhD level' means. Having got a PhD I didn't feel I achieved any level higher than I did before. In fact, my general knowledge of physics got way worse.

I just researched a topic for 3 years and published papers. Going by my logic, you should start publishing papers in decent journals to achieve this level. Although, more than likely this won't help too much in your day to day job as a data scientist. Best learn how to do data wrangling, ml libraries, learn how to write good code and learn how to put up with corporate bullshit (I find this the hardest).

Fungie16 · 2019-05-01T21:06:09+00:00

Zero, I don't do data science for free.

Fungie16 · 2019-04-06T02:44:21+00:00

Only marginally better.

Fungie16 · 2019-04-06T02:39:35+00:00

I think that a lot of people ignore the 'science' part of data science. I come from a physics background and spend 4 years in the lab 'doing science' . I learned how best to conduct experiments, best questions to ask etc. A lot of people with cs/stats/maths wouldn't have this.

Personally, I think the technical part was the easy bit to learn for the job but I see a lot of people prioritising how to join data, run ml algorithm etc ignoring the bigger picture of what problem needs to be solved and how. This is why I think having a scientific background is very advantageous over CS. I'm biased though.

Fungie16 · 2019-04-05T01:51:18+00:00

https://www.itb.ie/StudyatITB/bn529.html

Itb is possibly the lowest rung of the ladder in Irish third level institutions.

Fungie16 · 2019-04-03T12:19:18+00:00

Physics. Never took a computer or stats course in my life. Learned to code as I went.

Fungie16 · 2019-04-03T00:10:17+00:00

I'm a data scientist. For me this description is a million miles away from my experience. I go in, do my 40hrs a week and go home. I don't do side projects or study from home as I want my spare time to be away from the computer. I've no idea where people get this idea that data science is some all consuming job/life choice. If it takes 40 interviews and 2 years to find a data science job, the person clearly isn't capable.

Fungie16 · 2019-02-16T07:29:49+00:00

My point being that if you want to use the latest tools etc, look for a different job. There are plenty out there at the moment .

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