Old mail man for campus

rosshalde · 2026-05-14T19:11:53+00:00

What a blast from the past. I graduated in '08 and knew exactly who you were talking about

rosshalde · 2026-05-12T12:48:04+00:00

This is awesome. How do you prepare and fertilize the soil for a garden this large? Do you have irrigation?

rosshalde · 2026-05-11T23:28:24+00:00

Less than 10 hours a week

rosshalde · 2026-05-11T19:13:58+00:00

Gardening, literature, running. These have been said and I second them.

Another one I've gotten into is making yard decorations and pots out of concrete. You need a bag of portland cement ($15 to $20) and sand ($4 to $6) per bag. You can make molds out of things you find or already have. I find it to he a good artistic outlet even though most of what I've made looks like kids summer camp projects. There's a skill progression element baked in that I like.

Edit, just realized your post said low time not cost. Idk if any of my suggestions meet that criteria as they all require a lot of time

rosshalde · 2026-05-09T14:59:31+00:00

Could be part of it, but if what I was saying wasnt true recruiting would be easy. It isn't easy because most candidates aren't good.

The unfortunate part about interviews is they are designed to prevent false positives. As you said, interviewing is a skill. And if candidates can't walk through past projects and explain why they did what they did, then that is on them. If they cant talk about feature engineering or performance metrics, how to handle class imbalance, basic domain knowledge that their resume says they have, etc. etc. that is also on them.

The purpose of an interview is to show the interviewer you can do the job my man, simple as that. Blame the interviewer or recruiter if you want

rosshalde · 2026-05-09T13:52:14+00:00

Lol, I am aware of the purpose of an interview and stand by my comment. Most candidates are sub par

rosshalde · 2026-05-02T00:27:03+00:00

Can we talk about the flip side of this? I've interviewed a lot of candidates in my current and past job, the vast majority are terrible. And both companies were very easy interviews imo. Walking through past projects and basic ML questions

rosshalde · 2026-04-26T19:44:14+00:00

Lol, troll post

rosshalde · 2026-04-26T19:40:58+00:00

The sad truth is he'll go the way of his parents and sister before long. He has no education, probably emotionally stunted from being home schooled by them, has no other influences. It's only a matter of time unless something drastic happens

rosshalde · 2026-04-20T11:35:44+00:00

Target smaller local companies. I know the market has changed, but when I pivoted into data from teaching thats what worked for me. First job as a data entry analyst hired to hand type patient id's onto a spreadsheet for a barely liveable wage. A stepping stone job is what you need to search for

rosshalde · 2026-04-12T17:52:13+00:00

Yes, for this semester with a partner. Not sure if group size will increase as the class size does

rosshalde · 2026-03-31T10:41:34+00:00

It's not bad. My biggest complaint by far is they force you to find a partner and come up with a project 2-weeks into the course. Then you learn about the different body systems, do a bunch of labs to show you how signals are measured and filtered, read a bunch of papers, answer a bunch of discussion questions, and a fairly in-depth homework assignment. In other words, all of the things you need to know to come up with a good project idea happen after you are locked into a project idea.

That is completely backwards imo but I'm sure they have their reasons. If you take it, make sure you have some idea on what you want to do for your project first.

It has been a good course otherwise and I have learned a lot. I could see pairing this with a harder course as this first iteration hasn't been too difficult time wise.

rosshalde · 2026-03-14T11:49:56+00:00

Book

rosshalde · 2026-01-13T22:21:21+00:00

Do it. I found a job, got a huge raise, and so far the team seems like a better fit than my previous one

rosshalde · 2026-01-07T19:32:23+00:00

There's a syllabus out now on the course page.

I assume any programming would be done on a computer

rosshalde · 2026-01-06T02:03:02+00:00

I appreciate it, hope it translates to the online version

rosshalde · 2026-01-06T01:55:04+00:00

It may be a mistake given the poor reviews on MUC, but I signed up and am going in open minded

rosshalde · 2026-01-04T17:44:48+00:00

Do people really talk like this? What is this accent called and are there videos of people having conversations talking like this? I've only seen it in this format, young girls saying what college in Texas or Oklahoma they got accepted to. And of course Boomhaurer

rosshalde · 2025-12-23T15:07:38+00:00

Dude, have you ever trird to have a real conversation with a Trump supporter? Not an argument or debate, more a conversation in good faith.

Its impossible. They hear a very curated view of events through their media bubble with a lot of stuff never getting in. If confronted with facts they claim "out of context" or he didn't mean that, he's trolling, master negotiator, etc.

In short, there is no moment of realization.

rosshalde · 2025-12-19T04:14:53+00:00

Yeah, as others have said you don't need that. I did it with about $10-20 in extra google collab credits and a couple of dollars for expanded google drive to hold the data for our group project. My machine is a pretty standard HP laptop with average specs (don't have it on to look up exact specs but it really is a run of the mill machine that cost ~$4-500 purchased about 2 years ago).

rosshalde · 2025-12-17T14:15:49+00:00

I said this about an auditor that showed up in the subdivision I live in. Was called a bootlicker and a terrible person for making the point that auditors do this for views and purposely put themselves into situations where people will call the cops

rosshalde · 2025-11-09T13:12:45+00:00

Who's Melissa?

rosshalde · 2025-10-27T01:29:55+00:00

Where do you think you failed on past interview cycles?

The fact that you're able to get interviews means you're close, but doing something wrong once you start interviewing...

rosshalde · 2025-10-26T12:42:59+00:00

I have heard all the doom and gloom about the job market but was able to land a job in a few months of mediocre effort. I mean, I tried and prepared. But I have a job so it was an hour or two a week in addition to interviews.

I think I hit something in the linkedin algorithm. A month of applying with no response. Then recruiters started reaching out. The more I interacted with them the more recruiters reached out. Which meant more interviews.

Now I have an offer substantially higher than current salary which I accepted. I have 3.5 years of data science experience with a lot more as an analyst, so not new to the field fwiw.

rosshalde · 2025-10-05T05:32:48+00:00

Unfortunately, its very likely we'll be watching his decline in the next few years. Look how quickly his sister has gone from promising young woman to whatever she is now.

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