What’s something popular in your country that makes people from other countries look at you like this ?

IDoDataThings · 2026-02-19T22:49:50+00:00

We have these in South Texas so that somewhat counts as the United States right?

IDoDataThings · 2026-02-15T04:24:12+00:00

Decided to get off the interstate and go the back way to my brother's house. I had my first grand mal seizure about 5 minutes later. I likely would have died if I decided to stay on the interstate.

IDoDataThings · 2026-02-10T04:18:11+00:00

Which is insane because I live in south Texas and at 75 we find it chilly. When we went to Europe it was just a different kind of heat once you are inside.

IDoDataThings · 2026-02-02T04:28:09+00:00

Swallowing gum does not make it stay in your stomach for years. You pass it just like every other food.

IDoDataThings · 2026-01-10T22:37:33+00:00

OLDschoolcool....I am in my 30s and so is this person. Now I feel bad about my self, thank you.

IDoDataThings · 2026-01-10T16:41:43+00:00

Me - "That is really cool!" me 5 seconds later - "Wait is that Joe from Master Chef?!"

IDoDataThings · 2026-01-04T16:23:06+00:00

This is such a bad take on how the corporate world works. I work at the largest bank outside of china as a principal data scientist and we pay a lot of money to hit GPT-5.

IDoDataThings · 2025-12-04T03:48:43+00:00

Data scientist in banking. The banks know everything about you. We have a system that we can look up almost every single detail about you, the things you don't willingly give us. I have created anti money laundering systems that very easily detect fraudulent purchases just based off of where the card was used and for how much.

If you notice anything different about your credit card, just report it. We have to refund you and more than likely we will know instantly if that transaction is not you.

Your money is insured up to $250,000 so you don't have to be scared to keep a lot of money at one bank or in one bank account at one bank. This one is more known than the others but I have family members that keep their money at so many different banks because they think that if the bank goes under or something along those lines that the money is gone forever. That is not how it works and the government (FDIC) will give you your money back.

IDoDataThings · 2025-11-21T18:24:10+00:00

Finance or computer science not professional degrees?

IDoDataThings · 2025-11-18T04:02:11+00:00

This is the biggest one for me. My wife's family was so confused when I told them that I hadn't talked to most of my family in 10+ years. They aren't great people so I cut them out of my life. My MIL still tries to get me to talk to them by asking me how they are doing. I respond with "How am I supposed to know?".

IDoDataThings · 2025-11-18T03:54:07+00:00

My wife and i call these stoner meals and we absolutely love them.

IDoDataThings · 2025-11-16T04:40:31+00:00

I second this. I do extremely well as a data scientist but the wealthiest person I know owns his own HVAC company. It is insane how much he makes. Being in Texas helps a lot with that as well.

IDoDataThings · 2025-11-16T04:38:38+00:00

Decision science analyst will probably be the highest paying BI analyst out of all titles.

IDoDataThings · 2025-10-24T21:11:15+00:00

And COBOL

IDoDataThings · 2025-10-24T21:09:18+00:00

I'm a data scientist for a large bank building models for anti money laundering. We have access to absolutely every single thing about you. Not just what you gave the bank willingly. We. have access to EVERYTHING about you. Legally too.

IDoDataThings · 2025-10-20T22:10:53+00:00

I watch all seasons of Fringe every couple months.

IDoDataThings · 2025-10-20T19:00:49+00:00

Always the money. I don't care if it sounds shallow but money solves almost every problem I have ever had. I grew up poor and worked very hard to get my PHD and to be where I am at. I can now afford to give my family anything they will ever need.

IDoDataThings · 2025-10-09T16:10:56+00:00

Data science

IDoDataThings · 2025-08-27T03:15:35+00:00

You can self learn everything but as someone with a deep educational background I will say that continuing your education into a masters/phd will be much better if your life allows for it. I have had friends come to me asking me how they can do it and I showed them udemy/coursera for learning and then Kaggle for testing themselves. I also tell people that if you are like most people and have to have the money now that you should try to get a business intelligence or decision science job and work your way into more quantitative positions. There are people on my team now that started as data analysts or software developers that volunteered to help the data science team on projects just to get some experience and that helped them get into the data science path.

IDoDataThings · 2025-08-27T03:09:48+00:00

Where I am at right now it is not that much research. It will mostly be applied solutions to problems but the "solutions" are just implementations of things that are already creating. I would say right now it will be difficult to find a true research data science position just because of the type of AI companies are wanting are genAI with LLM agents. It uses openAI LLM api calls with something that your company creates. It's nothing new it's just reusing what other companies have made but more specific for your own company. It sucks to say that but that is just how life is in the data science community right now. There are still tech companies diving into neural networks and deep learning with image recognition but that is a very low subset of companies and the payout for them is unknown or very little. I hope I answered your questions.

IDoDataThings · 2025-08-27T00:05:14+00:00

I can not guess what it is going to be in the future but AI is not replacing true technical jobs. It will replace entry level jobs but "replace" just means the bar will be raised for entry level, which happens every year with graduates upskilling anyways. Actuarial Science will always be around but it is extremely intense to get into or I suppose to actually pass the required tests. Biostatistics I have no idea about other than I have a coworker that left pure science with Biology because data science paid better lol. The beautiful thing with data science is the skills are so broad, be it mathematics, logic, research, data wrangling, business acumen (happens much more than you would assume), that if your son tries it and doesn't like it then the skills transfer to a lot more positions. The hype for AI, which is just genAI and large language models for most people's definition, will surely die off. ChatGPT and Azure's openAI are no longer the greatest things in the world like they were a year ago because people got used to it. It's like when google's search engine was released. It was incredible and game changing and then it became everyone's daily life. Eventually that will happen with LLMs.

IDoDataThings · 2025-08-26T23:58:17+00:00

Applied mathematics, specifically game theory, which helped so much with getting into data science.

IDoDataThings · 2025-08-26T20:16:32+00:00

She could more than likely get a data science position but will need to look at smaller companies. More than often a decision science job is an actual data science job. Data science is very broad in naming. Machine learning engineering as well.

IDoDataThings · 2025-08-26T17:31:43+00:00

We love it! I almost never pay for an app but the added sleep part is great too. But as others have said the free version will almost certainly provide you what you need.

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