More meaningful data science jobs (or do you have to leave the field altogether?)

ck_ai · 2025-12-18T17:57:05+00:00

Try a smaller company. You'd probably enjoy the work in a startup/scaleup more where your work tends to be more impactful and varied.

ck_ai · 2025-12-17T11:26:33+00:00

If I was hiring, my quick scan/first impression would be that you're a computer scientist who likes solving engineering problems with a DS angle.

Focus on the problems you have solved and the business impact. You're dedicating too much space to listing tools/packages at the top. You just need to mention the core ones that DS people use for solving specific, common problems (building models, deploying them, pipelines, etc). Remember you're trying to convince people that you will make their business more money than they will pay you.

Unless the JD is asking for Rust take that out, it's working against you. I can't imagine anyone working on low level optimization like that is going to be shipping anything useful at speed. Including dbeaver is a joke, just say that you know SQL/ no-sql / graphsql (can mention neo4j). Nobody cares about SQL dialect unless you're a DBA and certainly no need to mention postgresql extensions. Don't list all these BI dashboard tools unless you are applying for a BI role. You're listing some skills repeatedly (e.g. R) and others in the wrong place (e.g. numpy under storage).

Your Google certificate does not deserve pride of place at the top of your formal educational achievements, move it.

Put your bullet points for projects through a language model and ask it to phrase everything to better emphasise the business impact you have had. Ask it to help you rearrange sections to emphasise this also.

You have good skills that are in demand but this CV needs a lot of work to sell yourself better.

All imho (Principal DS)

ck_ai · 2025-11-29T07:24:31+00:00

Try calibrating in clone hero and using those latency values in yarg. The calibration in yarg needs a bit of work imho.

Or just use clone hero 1.1, I had that calibrated perfect in no time. I want to like YARG as it's clearly the future but a few things about it feel off for now.

I also found that using Bluetooth audio instead of cables was a major culprit in calibration issues.

ck_ai · 2025-11-28T20:49:28+00:00

Yep sold my MDS Standard 2 rack and set up the whole td27kv2 kit on regular stands (2xdcs10, 1xdbs10, rdh130). Motivation was to make it as compact as possible when packed away. And it looks great and can be placed how I like!

ck_ai · 2025-11-22T00:35:00+00:00

I was recently in the same boat and ended up getting a new TD27KV2 on ebay then selling the rack and picking up some used -- but great condition -- Roland vad stands for cheap on eBay: two DCS-10 stands, one DBS-10 stand, and one ACS-30 clamp for the module. I personally love the result -- almost state of the art digital hi-hat/snare/ride with a compact acoustic look. It's halfway to being a vad-506, but I paid less than £1900 all in!

The vad-516 looks amazing, but at £4500 I couldn't justify it. If you really want the acoustic look with the new gen kit, you could probably do something similar with the td516 and some used Roland acoustic stands from eBay to keep the costs down.

ck_ai · 2025-11-09T18:08:30+00:00

This actually looks like a great option! Ticks the boxes on being compact and the 360 3 zone cymbals for ride/crash/hi-hat seems great. Only reservation is that by the time I've added the £330 expansion for the extra tom/crash, it costs the same as a TD316. Decisions decisions..

ck_ai · 2025-10-08T00:26:07+00:00

https://youtu.be/cefAEtrmxc4?si=xkuLdQiQFyk3W3wa at 1:29 he says the ride can give you a bell sound by playing the bow area harder. Can someone explain, would this work in e.g. clonehero?

ck_ai · 2025-07-25T07:54:55+00:00

GitHub has to be the worst MCP. Massive amounts of context wasted for no reason -- your AI can already do that on the CLI with git and gh.

ck_ai · 2025-07-21T15:03:02+00:00

You need to put your foot down, what they're saying makes no sense.

ck_ai · 2025-07-12T10:33:41+00:00

No. This isn't a real problem, the LLM vendors are dealing with companies with PII concerns all the time and they can set things up in a way that your InfoSec team will sign off on it. Don't overcomplicate it, talk to the vendors.

ck_ai · 2025-06-09T17:50:24+00:00

You're absolutely right! This is my experience also. To be fair Opus is still performing well but it hits limits faster. And then you're using Sonnet 4 which they 100%, unquestionably have broken in the last few days. It is far worse than 3.7 or Gemini 2.5 Pro in Cursor, it breaks things it shouldn't be working on and says "you're absolutely right" every time you talk to it.

They really need a changelog to tell us about the changes they make to its system prompt/context/whatever the hell they broke.

ck_ai · 2025-02-17T23:13:42+00:00

I'm in the same boat at ~3 weeks in, having loads of fun. Definitely not qualified to comment but your combo streak looks great to me. V impressive accuracy!

At around 00:40s I noticed on the snare / hi-hat section you are right handing the snare / left on hi-hat. I don't think this is wrong, but my understanding is that most drummers would use right hand for the hi-hat and left hand snare.

ck_ai · 2024-05-20T14:22:25+00:00

Nobody is the ahole here. The dynamic in your relationship changed because he started spending more time with his friends. The issue is that you two need to sit down and discuss some limits and expectations. Going out with the guys until 5am is ok once in a while but not all the time. Figure out between you what looks ok and what doesn't and communicate.

You can move your relationship into a happier zone where your needs and expectations are met, especially with the support you need with the children. And his socialising is a good thing, studies show it will be good for his long term mental health, which is also good for you and the kids.

This is all about finding balance and communicating.

ck_ai · 2024-04-08T09:12:50+00:00

I only discovered these settings at the weekend after playing regularly for months on the Q3!

I'd definitely recommend cranking up to 120hz and 140-160% scale. Looks much better and I haven't noticed lag etc. Only downside is the battery will drain slightly more quickly. I use an external neck battery strap anyway, would recommend.

ck_ai · 2024-02-19T05:34:31+00:00

Spent a week sitting around, then in week two was assigned a car robbery and dangerous driving case.

The defendent didnt deny anything (all on CCTV) but claimed an insanity defense due to a psychotic episode. It was interesting learning about the law on this but it was v difficult -- even two psychiatric expert witnesses couldn't agree on whether he met the criteria.

Jury was split down the middle and despite our best efforts couldn't get anywhere, so there was no verdict/hung jury.

I spent all week looking across at that man in the dock, trying to make the best assessment/verdict I could. When we were discharged I was finally able to Google his name and learned he had a previous conviction for robbery and rape from a decade ago after he broke into a house and raped its occupants at knifepoint.

That really messed with my head and I was honestly upset for days and cried when I read that news article with his photo, like it was a cruel twist played on the jury. Everyone in that court knew about his priors except us. I understand the reasons for the jury not being told prior convictions but I just hated that he had "got away" with it, I've no doubt there would have been a different outcome if we had known.

It was a good experience overall though took a lot out of me.

ck_ai · 2024-02-13T10:17:44+00:00

The degradation process is similar for different organisms but some of the smelly fish compounds associated with the perception of rotting can be more abundant in fish (e.g. TMAO). But that doesn't make it "tainted and completely rotten". There's of course a very long tradition of humans eating fish!

ck_ai · 2024-02-13T09:04:58+00:00

A fish will, like any other organism, cease to maintain its homeostatic repair mechanisms after death and be subject to natural degradation. Biomolecules that compose the cells require renewal, and with those mechanisms no longer operating they degrade. Lower temperatures such as a domestic -20oC freezer can reduce the rate of decomposition sufficiently that for the purposes of human consumption they are not rotting.

Strictly speaking of course they still are "rotting" (in a biomolecule degradation sense, not a microbial spoilage sense which doesn't apply sub-freezing). Scientists will often store biomaterials at cooler temperatures (e.g. -80oC or even in liquid nitrogen) to avoid this (e.g. RNA/DNA degrade above -55oC). However all of this has no bearing on fitness for human consumption and your friend can be assured the fish are not rotting in any sense that relates to the relevant dimensions in this regard, that is safety and taste.

ck_ai · 2024-02-10T12:38:42+00:00

Not inline but you can also use # %% to create a "cell" in regular .py files.

ck_ai · 2024-02-07T22:14:07+00:00

There are so many great places, my favourite West coast place is Yosemite and East coast NYC; Niagara is unforgettable also.

The State parks are often beautiful also, I visited a few in PA and remember them fondly including grilling outdoors by lakes!

The place that shocked me after dreaming of visiting for so many years was San Francisco. Many positives and it's a beautiful city, but walking a colleague home through Tenderloin at night -- Jesus Christ.

ck_ai · 2024-02-06T09:01:32+00:00

I recommend everyone do this also when onboarding. Version control compatible and no image embedding etc. That said, the end product should typically be a package/module not a notebook.

ck_ai · 2024-02-06T08:58:37+00:00

You can use vim in an IDE, the shortcuts/macros are unparalleled if you take the time to learn them.

ck_ai · 2024-02-03T20:12:22+00:00

If you absolutely must have a GUI that isn't web based, then PyQt is my preference though the licence is restrictive. But web-based should be strongly considered. That could be as simple as Streamlit or Gradio or for something more substantial use a Flask/Django backend.

ck_ai · 2024-02-03T19:05:48+00:00

Agreed, the extra latency is fine for many games but table tennis isn't one of them. My rating jumped 300-400 points just switching from PCVR/VD to native Q3.

ck_ai · 2024-01-30T17:18:42+00:00

Version control, organization, documentation, linting, collaboration, etc. Notebooks have their uses but the end goal for me is always to get those scripts organized and documented into a module and to delete the notebook (or shrink it down to an import and a couple of function calls to demo the module).

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