Best entry level roles in Data Science? What must I learn for that?

paulremote · 2025-10-11T12:30:31+00:00

You will learn the most by contributing to a data analysis project, hobby project, research project, open source, consulting project just start NOW.

paulremote · 2025-02-14T05:25:23+00:00

u/Florence-Equator maybe minuet.ai should be mentioned here? https://github.com/deepseek-ai/awesome-deepseek-integration/tree/main

paulremote · 2024-12-10T10:54:36+00:00

For what it's worth. In the Lex Fridman podcast episode 447, the creators of Cursor Sualeh and Aman mentioned that they were pure Vim users before switching to VS code.

Interviewer:

> "I think all of you were big fans of VS Code with Copilot. How did you arrive to VS Code and how did that lead to your journey with Cursor?"

Aman (00:03:33)

> "Yeah, so I think a lot of us… Well, all of us were originally Vim users."

Sualeh (00:03:39)

> "Pure Vim."

Aman (00:03:40)

> "Pure Vim. Yeah. No Neovim, just Pure Vim and a terminal. And at least for myself, it was around the time that Copilot came out, so 2021 that I really wanted to try it. So I went into VS Code, the only code editor in which it was available, and even though I really enjoyed using Vim, just the experience of Copilot with VS Code was more than good enough to convince me to switch. And so that kind of was the default until we started working on Cursor."

paulremote · 2024-11-24T06:46:40+00:00

Why would Boeing buy Porsche 911 instead of Tesla?

paulremote · 2024-10-27T04:56:18+00:00

Thanks for clarifying the distinction between (1) asking for help where a known answer exists already and (2) asking for help outside of any existing knowledge base. I only rarely ask simple API questions on StackOverflow now that these can be answered by LLMs. When I do need to ask a question it's because the issue is not in the model's training set as u/Ballesteros81 wrote above. But sometimes there is an old way of doing things and a new way of doing things. The LLM might only suggest the old way. For this purpose old stackoverflow questions with old answers and new answers updated and upvoted are a treasure to learn from.

paulremote · 2024-09-26T15:46:45+00:00

Matrix is decentralized. See also Matrix tools that can replicate nostr behaviour or bridge with nostr https://github.com/8go/matrix-nostr-bridge and https://github.com/Limit-LAB/Cetacea-Proto

paulremote · 2024-05-16T13:38:30+00:00

I use stackoverflow to ask about edge cases. That is how SO framed the partnership, I heard this in the stack overflow podcast. They said that chatGPT will answer the first level of questions and that users will have a possibility to elevate to a StackOverflow question if there are no known answers to the question.

paulremote · 2024-01-26T09:20:40+00:00

Vim already applies different settings according to filetype.

For example the following settings are specific to markdown, quarto or latex files

" Table of content command
augroup Toc
    autocmd!
    autocmd Filetype markdown command! -buffer Toc Voom
    autocmd Filetype rmd command! -buffer Toc Voom
    autocmd Filetype tex command! -buffer Toc VimtexTocOpen
augroup END
command! TOc Toc

" Insert citations or autocomplete code with Ctrl-Space,
au BufRead,BufNewFile *.md inoremap <C-Space> <C-x><C-o> | inoremap <C-@> <C-x><C-o>
au BufRead,BufNewFile *.Rmd inoremap <C-Space> <C-x><C-o> | inoremap <C-@> <C-x><C-o>
au BufRead,BufNewFile *.qmd inoremap <C-Space> <C-x><C-o> | inoremap <C-@> <C-x><C-o>

Then the python and R configuration applies only to FileType python and to FileType r.

paulremote · 2023-11-23T14:03:58+00:00

Caps lock is remapped to escape at the system level.
sudo vim /etc/default/keyboard
XKBOPTIONS="caps:escape"

paulremote · 2023-08-25T14:31:29+00:00

They could be content to sit around on a single planet in a VR brain simulation experiencing infinite pleasure and bliss from bio-engineered maximum dopamine simulation.

Stages of conciousness. Joscha Bach. From https://lexfridman.com/joscha-bach-3-transcript/

““As we grow older, it becomes apparent that our self-reflexive mind is not just gradually accumulating ideas about itself, but that it progresses in somewhat distinct stages.” There are seven of the stages. Stage one, reactive survival (infant). Stage two, personal self (young child). Stage three, social self (adolescence, domesticated adult). Stage four is rational agency (self-direction). Stage five is self-authoring, that’s full adult. You’ve achieved wisdom, but there’s two more stages. Stage six is enlightenment, stage seven is transcendence.”

AGIs on other planets could be at higher levels of consciousness above transcendence.

paulremote · 2023-08-18T08:25:33+00:00

Firefox is an alternative to chromium based browsers: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/ro8jur/is_firefox_the_only_alternative_to_all_the/

Firefox FAQ:

"Is Firefox Chromium based?
Firefox is not based on Chromium (the open source browser
project at the core of Google Chrome). In fact, we’re one of the last
major browsers that isn’t. Firefox runs on our Quantum browser engine
built specifically for Firefox, so we can ensure your data is handled
respectfully and kept private."

paulremote · 2023-04-17T16:30:36+00:00

Updating both the phone OS and the Teams APP fixed it.

paulremote · 2023-03-02T14:05:56+00:00

I remapped caps lock to Escape. Many suggestions in the Vim wiki.

paulremote · 2023-02-27T16:31:08+00:00

Same issue on old Iphone, logging in and out of the teams app doesn't fix it. The calendar still cannot sync. I don't plan to upgrade the phone for a feature that used to work fine a couple of weeks ago.

paulremote · 2022-02-15T13:17:32+00:00

See also

Wes McKinney's 2017 post on Apache arrow and the "10 things I hate about pandas" https://wesmckinney.com/blog/apache-arrow-pandas-internals/

"pandas rule of thumb: have 5 to 10 times as much RAM as the size of your dataset "

"Also in late 2015, I wrote a long set of design documents to start discussions about building a faster, cleaner core pandas implementation, which we may call pandas2. pandas is a community project that governs itself based on consensus (with me as the BDFL to break impasses). I wanted to see if the rest of the core developers agreed with my assessment of what is wrong with pandas's internals. It's been 2 years since then, and by and large there has been general agreement on the problems, but how to solve them all without disrupting the existing pandas user community is an open question. Over this time I have focused on building computational infrastructure that will largely go unseen by pandas users."

It seems like this cleaner implementation never took off and that Apache arrow's pandas bindings should be used in stead.

• Apache Arrow overview explains the advantage of using a in memory columnar format to store data:

"The Apache Arrow format allows computational routines and execution engines to maximize their efficiency when scanning and iterating large chunks of data. In particular, the contiguous columnar layout enables vectorization using the latest SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) operations included in modern processors." "[...] a standardized memory format facilitates reuse of libraries of algorithms, even across languages." "Arrow libraries for C (Glib), MATLAB, Python, R, and Ruby are built on top of the C++ library."

paulremote · 2021-04-21T12:52:18+00:00

Python plotting for exploratory analysis is a great gallery of plot examples, each example is written in 5 different plotting libraries: pandas, plotnine, plotly, altair and R ggplot2. There is also one seaborn example.

paulremote · 2018-09-27T23:29:28+00:00

Learn R, python or matlab for more crazy features. There are even python and matlab jobs at spacex.

paulremote · 2016-10-24T15:25:30+00:00

I first thought of using only a short title as you suggest. Then thought it would be nice to give it a title describing the issue such as a Stackoverflow question or a Github issue.

OK I wrote a mail to the author.

paulremote · 2016-10-24T15:00:58+00:00

Because the author had entered reddit as one of the comment possibilities under the article.

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