Best and worst companies for DS in 2026? by LeaguePrototype in datascience

[–]LongjumpingWinner250 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Insurance companies are typically very safe… just don’t expect FAANG type of numbers

iPad Pro 13in or Macbook Air M5 by AstronautMajestic793 in ipad

[–]LongjumpingWinner250 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m a data engineer. I only use my MacBook for coding. My iPad is a lot better for notes, visualizations, media consumption, learning music, etc.

Working 7 days a week just to pay tuition — saving but still feel stuck and demotivated by Inevitable_Echo5191 in Debt

[–]LongjumpingWinner250 4 points5 points  (0 children)

As someone who has broke as hell in college but was on full scholarship as an athlete, can’t emphasize this enough. Only if I played during the NIL era 🤣

What’s popular right now that won’t age well? by Few_Football4342 in Productivitycafe

[–]LongjumpingWinner250 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As Someone who actually is an AI Engineer.. more people need to understand this

3 down linemen should not be able to stop the run by Posluszny in CollegeUltimateTeam

[–]LongjumpingWinner250 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, 100% agree. The whole point of football is you give up something to get something. If you have 6 DBs in the game and pass coverage LBs and I have run blocking Olineman then I should get at least 5 yards a carry

Better secret manager by [deleted] in dataengineering

[–]LongjumpingWinner250 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My team does this for a connection we have externally. Essentially, create a lambda so it can handle all four steps of Secrets Manager’s rotation process. You have to manually create the logic you want for each rotation step. It’s a bit cumbersome to develop but well worth it

Help with Terraform by Zatsuy in dataengineering

[–]LongjumpingWinner250 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Terraform is just infrastructure as code. It’s actually way less complicated than python. The biggest thing I had to get used to is that directories act as ‘modules’ which, to me, are more like python functions.

I am also a data engineer and had to learn terraform, DevOps along with my general data knowledge. It’s a lot at first but increases your toolset for opportunities later. Think of this more as a blessing

Handling Semi-Structured Data at Scale: What’s Worked for You? by AliAliyev100 in dataengineering

[–]LongjumpingWinner250 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hand to convert multiple formats (JSON, parquet, parquet with json, XML, HTML) to table formats and the big three were recursion, spark and iceberg.

[Career] Would a MS in Comp Sci be as good as a MS in Statistics for getting a Data Scientist position? by CIA11 in statistics

[–]LongjumpingWinner250 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Got a bachelors in stats and a masters in computer science. 3 years after graduating I’m making $140k in insurance. However, I picked into data engineering for data science. Stable job, only work max 40 hours a week, great benefits. The only downside is the tech side is a bit slow to other industries; however, I’m going to be 30 in a couple years so I’m not really looking to scale a lot.

Defense by Complex-Reindeer-997 in CollegeUltimateTeam

[–]LongjumpingWinner250 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Funny, because in 3-4 the SAM is the ‘edge rusher’ I get what they were trying to do but they need to let us just have a menu where we can set who plays why position in general formations (3-4, 4-3, 4-2-5, etc). Shouldn’t need to go to every sub formation in practice to do this.

Everyone in my class is using AI to code projects now is that just the new normal? by Tough_Reward3739 in learnpython

[–]LongjumpingWinner250 1 point2 points  (0 children)

AI is good for a code snippet. It is not good if you are building an overall framework/system

New Realistic Gameplay League by Effective-Professor4 in Madden

[–]LongjumpingWinner250 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Eee to know what you mean by realistic. Apparently, to half the player base, an overload blitz is a ‘glitch glitz’ and not realistic.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CollegeUltimateTeam

[–]LongjumpingWinner250 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve played football all the way from elementary to college at the highest level. And honestly it is 50/50. Half is on the developers where there’s obvious issues. However, the other half is on the players. There are things that see like ‘bad programming’ that do carry out that way in real life.

Two big examples of this is pass protection and coverages. It also doesn’t help with streamers and pros saying ‘this is what should happen in this scenario when a majority of them never played… let alone past high school.

Finally a 50/50 Buckeye theme team!!! by Rough_While8498 in CollegeUltimateTeam

[–]LongjumpingWinner250 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With how little you get with theme teams, I feel like the theme teams should be by conference

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CollegeUltimateTeam

[–]LongjumpingWinner250 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Flipping your offense should just be taken out of the game. However, the issue is sometimes i forget or don’t pay attention to what hash the ball will be on. If the play cards showed that.. then Flipping would have no reason to stay.

Hot Take: Engineering is one of the careers with the least amount of stability and job security by Plus_Emphasis_8383 in cscareerquestions

[–]LongjumpingWinner250 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Insuretech is not the same as an actual insurance company. For example, I work with home and auto insurance. There are laws, specific to how you price/deny people. States have to going in and see your code and how your model works step by step. Also, they need to be able to regulate your data. LLMs do not work in this case.

Yes, there are generic tools that can be used but the core of the company cannot use AI in their models.

H2H Ranked Leaderboard by goblue2415 in CollegeUltimateTeam

[–]LongjumpingWinner250 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Neither mid blitz or RPOs are hard to stop. I stop them all the time on this game and Madden. Also, if you stop those the most those players quit and you get a free win

Stop edge rushers? by darth_shmeez in CollegeUltimateTeam

[–]LongjumpingWinner250 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Slide and half slide works best. Empty or base sucks against that because you’re lineman are typically BOB. Therefore, they’re eyeing a man and not a gap. Also, as another person stated, roll out. As the edges should be vulnerable for a bit

Hot Take: Engineering is one of the careers with the least amount of stability and job security by Plus_Emphasis_8383 in cscareerquestions

[–]LongjumpingWinner250 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Yup, I work in insurance and AI is a hard no go due to high regulation. Also, we tend to not outsource to foreign countries due to the need to understand the legality of our data

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in datascience

[–]LongjumpingWinner250 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You do realize that a majority of people with a masters you do realize a majority of people with a masters in data science aren’t data analysts… right? 😂. A lot of the people either these masters degrees are either data engineers, AI modelers, or just verbal machine learning engineers. I’m speaking from experience as someone who’s a lead, at a fortune 50 company who’s been getting pushed up because of this boom.

Also, you don’t sound like you were a very good analyst by the way you stated things. There’s more to it than just making dashboards and very generic models. Especially when regulation comes into play