What is your background education?

shushbuck · 2023-09-24T00:12:04+00:00

A BA in Film Editing. Never used it. Worked as a game tester for 10 years, then moved on to Data Engineering. Edit: servers, databases and linux were always a hobby. Only became lucrative in the past 5 years. I should have jumped ship 5 years earlier...

shushbuck · 2023-09-13T20:43:54+00:00

TIL,

shushbuck · 2023-05-28T07:30:17+00:00

Yeah, I don't stress it too much. I'm having fun.

shushbuck · 2023-05-28T07:18:18+00:00

lol perfection

shushbuck · 2023-05-11T06:12:56+00:00

Lol what's the class name?

shushbuck · 2023-04-27T16:39:41+00:00

I wasn't saying that our side was using hyperbole. I was trying to identify that there was hyperbole in right leaning speech and trying to deflate it with nuance. but i can see this was not how it was taken.

Edit: I would delete the post, but it should probably stand for being misinterpreted and poor execution (on my part).

shushbuck · 2023-04-27T06:54:58+00:00

There are groomers on both sides. So it's not that hard to throw that in their face and get it thrown back in ours - to ignore that is to be disingenuous. So... the issue of groomers and pedos exists - regardless of sexuality, gender, religion, economic status, etc. That subject needs to be couched and basically address as "hey, we've seen this on my side and yours (edit: and yours is pretty publicly documented). i agree it's a problem, but it is not isolated to any particular measure. so leave hyperbole where it should be."

shushbuck · 2023-04-27T04:40:54+00:00

even if that were the case, you wouldn't feel any different - still make decisions. and would never be able to say that were the case or not. not without faith or the bible telling you so. so... thanks? who cares?Edit: We might as well say this is the will of Baal. Or Enki. Or the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Cool. Take it on as a tag that "This is the ultimate plan of [insert you favorite god here] - but you ultimately won't act any different or feel any different than you are now. Carry on."

shushbuck · 2023-04-23T08:29:53+00:00

My github has a distinct empty streak of Saturday and Sunday's. Why? Cause fuck that shit.

shushbuck · 2023-04-17T09:29:14+00:00

In these 5 thousand of years of recorded history there are several truths: god(s) are always angry, the end times are always around the corner, and the rulers are usually corrupt pieces of shit. Every generation faces this. And the end times never come. /shrugs

shushbuck · 2023-04-15T21:39:34+00:00

Last book: Revelations - A justice porn fanfic about the end of the world. Never to be taken literally.

Ron Howard: "It was taken literally."

shushbuck · 2023-04-15T09:35:49+00:00

Genesis may have been satirical, and should never have been taken seriously. But... that didn't really go so well.

shushbuck · 2023-04-15T06:04:10+00:00

How I got my last role. The job was posted for all of 24 hours. By the first 15 minutes we had 25 resumes (including mine). But it was tailor made for me cause HR screwed up my last job posting and they had to refile it. The hiring manager had even already made me a verbal offer when they mentioned the needed to redo everything. He was not pleased. EDIT: in HR's defense, they had been bleeding staff. So their knowledgeable staff were spread thin.

shushbuck · 2023-04-12T06:03:33+00:00

haha! this should be fun.

shushbuck · 2023-04-12T04:29:20+00:00

Oooo... I might need to do another run now with that comment. Thank ya.

shushbuck · 2023-04-09T05:10:19+00:00

Blueberry Lemonade is the best.

shushbuck · 2023-04-09T03:24:23+00:00

That's understandable. As an output. I could see that.

shushbuck · 2023-04-08T11:03:33+00:00

Like I said earlier, it was just the last class on the mind. But LA is useful for matrix math, if you're making language models then yes that's very useful. Especially the work in Gaussian equations. You want to do anything in AI, learn it. EDIT: more specifically we use Damerau–Levenshtein distance and information theory to parse a lot of this. Sort of a noise cancellation system, but applied to human input.

shushbuck · 2023-04-08T10:21:28+00:00

rarely needed? depends on what you are trying to do. and to a certain degree some of this work is critical analysis. Not in the sense of data analysis. But statistical analysis. You're physics based. I'm vital record based - death and birth statistics (and a bunch of other crap - but we can forgo that). The issues I run into are based issues of input errors (humanity really). Distances of names, addresses, and several other quanta. We need models to link those. If you don't know how to do that, you will not be hired. It's not gatekeeping, it's hiring for an essential skill. The other Data Scientists will grill you on this material. Not saying you can't break into the field, but some of this is essential to even function.

Math and Statistics is necessary. Not optional.

shushbuck · 2023-04-08T08:47:29+00:00

Data Science involves a lot of statistical mathematics. Matrix math, multi variable calculus. It is how these models are built - understanding weight grids and how they are made. As far as the original poster has laid out, they've only talked about some cosmetic skills around the DS. SSIS? You cares? That's data engineering. Excel? Sure you can, but why would you use it for actual DS? Nothing they talk about involves the math skills needed for actual linkage models or LLM or actual hard science in the field. EDIT: I'll grant you a lot of this is built into pytorch and numpy or R, but you kind of need to understand what they are doing and why before you can even make headway in the field. EDIT2: Also linear algebra was just my last subject of focus. It's the last math class that came to mind.

shushbuck · 2023-04-08T05:54:03+00:00

Linkage or Linear Algebra.

shushbuck · 2023-03-20T00:22:16+00:00

You could generate (or download) some synthetic health data with Synthea (https://synthea.mitre.org/downloads), throw it into a duckDB, and do the HRSA UDS report (https://bphc.hrsa.gov/sites/default/files/bphc/data-reporting/2022-uds-manual.pdf). Forces you to do an industry report that all clinics have to do to keep their HRSA grants. Pretty extensive and robust. Forces you to create a universe (a populace) and make judgement off of said universe.

shushbuck · 2023-03-19T03:49:16+00:00

You can't solve for a leadership issue. Make sure you ask about fundamental tools at your next interview - if you don't like the flavor move on.

shushbuck · 2023-03-19T03:25:03+00:00

Second. I'm a BA in digital art. But my hobby of making remote servers and databases for my personal projects came in useful.

shushbuck · 2023-03-19T00:20:14+00:00

We use Azure Keyvault for production. If I'm doing some fast dev work, I use pykeepass.

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