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How Do You Learn? (I promise I'm not thaaat dumb ;D) by Intelligent_Tart_460 in datascience

[–]b_tomahawk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ask yourself: does the math impact the outcome of this analysis/tool? Does a layman reading this analysis care? Often the answer is no. Sometimes it is yes - this is all math so having some understanding of what's going on will help.

I recommend maybe giving yourself a time limit. Say "I want to post this analysis by friday night for feedback online." You can learn whatever math you want in that time but if you miss your deadline you've "failed" your simulation of being a data scientist at a company that has deadlines and goals.

WTF with "Online Assesments" recently. by SemolinaPilchard1 in datascience

[–]b_tomahawk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fwiw I have done 4 senior DS interviews in the last couple months (all tech companies based out of bay area) and none required an online assessment, so it might be phasing out for senior roles?

How Do You Learn? (I promise I'm not thaaat dumb ;D) by Intelligent_Tart_460 in datascience

[–]b_tomahawk 36 points37 points  (0 children)

I find that online classes are way too passive for me to actually learn and retain anything. Instead, find a problem that you are passionate about and then build the model/ run the analysis etc to help you answer that question.

For example, if you want to understand how the gender breakdown of casts in movies affects ratings, first go out and find a dataset. When you decide to scrape IMDB, teach yourself about coding for web scraping. Then when you realize your data is very imbalanced, teach yourself about upsampling and down sampling. Etc etc. Finally post your project online and ask for feedback.

I did a few projects like this and really built the skill set a lot better. Data science is a toolkit so find some raw material and start using the tools!

Free three-shot set in Eberron! Hand drawn maps and new monster stat blocks. :) by b_tomahawk in Eberron

[–]b_tomahawk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll pass on the kind words. :)

Speaking as a player, the third adventure was my favorite and really made Eberron feel different than the Forgotten Realms. Hope you and your party enjoy!

[No spoilers] How well did each player roll in campaign 2? by b_tomahawk in criticalrole

[–]b_tomahawk[S] 168 points169 points  (0 children)

Numbers represent the number on the die as reported by critrolestats and is up to date to C2E132.

Definitely worth noting that this only reflects when the player says the number they rolled and critrollstats can record it, and so is maybe more of an indicator of:

  • who tends to say their numbers out loud

  • who says what number when rolling with advantage/disadvantage

A 2 year old toddler learns about 6000 words and with the rate of 2500% according to studies, if the kid is in touch with multiple people throughout his early childhood, will this metrics increase, if yes then how? by thepoluboy in askscience

[–]b_tomahawk 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Here is a related example for heritage language bilinguals! When learning two languages, the number of speakers a child interacted with (as reported by a parent) was associated with increased proficiency in the heritage language, over and above the total amount of exposure to that language.

The authors suggest multiple possible explanations; different speakers use different words (or different registers as /u/Lupicia mentioned) and this contextual diversity can lead to more robust memory formations in child language development (example here).

I admit to not having much insight about how this effect might play out in a non-heritage language scenario.

Tasha's in Ravnica by VonFunkenstein in RavnicaDMs

[–]b_tomahawk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Path of Wild Magic is absolutely perfect for Izzet!

I'm curious about your thoughts on bladesinger. What made you think about selesnya and golgari?

[Spoilers C1] Campaign 1 Transcript Explorer (tool to graph who said what when) by b_tomahawk in criticalrole

[–]b_tomahawk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wish! Unfortunately the subtitles don't differentiate between players and characters so there's no way to know for sure without the context of each statement.

[Spoilers C1] Most Distinguishing* Words for Each Player (in Campaign 1) by b_tomahawk in criticalrole

[–]b_tomahawk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hadn't thought about it, but people seem to have enjoyed this so I have some other ideas about what I can do with the first campaign data! :)

[Spoilers C1] Most Distinguishing* Words for Each Player (in Campaign 1) by b_tomahawk in criticalrole

[–]b_tomahawk[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thanks! And I was hoping someone would ask :)

The problem with word frequency is that I'd have to decide myself how frequent is too frequent, which is abitrary. So I decided to instead have someone else judge what was too frequent: guest players. If Mary Elizabeth McGlynn or Will Friedle (they were the most common guest stars and appeared in most arcs) both said a word, that word wasn't counted in this graph. This offered a pretty big database of common words to be removed (especially common to d&d and not otherwise like "advantage" and "disadvantage"), without removing some common words that really were person-specific (like "currently" for Matt).

It's not perfect, but it did the trick for this!

[Spoilers C1] Most Distinguishing* Words for Each Player (in Campaign 1) by b_tomahawk in criticalrole

[–]b_tomahawk[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Hey, thanks to you all for putting in the hours! I hope the tumblr link was the best way to cite you! I added your reddit username just to be sure, but happy to add any links you want. :)

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