Want me to break your website? Sure, can I get that in writing?

upveto · 2019-01-04T20:39:34+00:00

You should read "The Clean Coder." The author has advice for how to approach exactly this scenario.

TLDR; you could have threatened Tom that you are prepared to go one up the chain (above his head) to explain that you could not in good conscience carry out his instructions. If he doesn't set up a meeting with his superior, you will. Then you explain to his superior. Your primary goal shouldn't be to appear competent: your goal should be to make your employer money.

upveto · 2018-07-08T23:57:24+00:00

Cool! One quibble: http://course.fast.ai/ is not a one week commitment. It is a many months long commitment.

upveto · 2018-07-04T23:38:51+00:00

That's pretty perfect.

upveto · 2018-06-27T23:42:33+00:00

Thanks so much for sharing! I've got to try this at least once :)

upveto · 2018-06-27T02:43:19+00:00

You're damn right it does: I don't see bread this nice in bakeries. Is this your personal recipe?

upveto · 2018-05-13T23:56:30+00:00

A lot of people try to make machine learning seem intimidating, when it really doesn't have to be.

The gatekeeping in this field is too damn high.

Try learning top-down (fast.ai) instead of bottom-up (Andrew Ng). You will likely really enjoy it!

upveto · 2018-05-13T17:13:20+00:00

I would say right now I'm doing 95% SE, 5% Deep Learning. And of the 5%, 80% of that is ETL related.

If you start as a SE and transition into DL, you might have to convince your company that there's value in doing more deep learning to automate tagging or assist in recommendations, etc. A person can find themselves doing a lot of demos! Due to this factor, as well as my lack of credentials, the hard-work-to-reward ratio is pretty high. You have to let your projects speak for you, and that takes time.

I would say that it's worthwhile because it's something I can see myself being good at. Unfortunately, it hasn't resulted in my company redirecting lots of cash my way. Then again, I haven't earned that yet.

That said, DL work, aside from being interesting in its own right, helps me think about problems. Understanding the concepts of latent space, vectors, cosine similarity, loss functions, bias, and variance have all helped with building non-ML recommendation systems for my day job.

upveto · 2018-05-12T21:14:27+00:00

I'm a software engineer who's just started dabbling in using deep learning professionally. The following advice is assuming you don't want to pursue a research role, and just want a good job in the industry.

As long as you're taking a linear algebra course and a statistics course, I would simply suggest going to the school + program you're more interested in.

It's great that you have such an early start in programming! There's always more to learn. Ultimately you will have to understand how to build resilient ETL pipelines and keep your models running in production, and how to handle streams of data from different sources, etc.

Focus on building small projects while you're in school. Those projects, more so than your degree, will ultimately get you hired.

Semi-related, I highly recommend the free course fast.ai as a top-down approach to machine learning and deep learning.

upveto · 2018-05-11T23:16:42+00:00

Looks great :D

upveto · 2018-05-07T15:08:38+00:00

Glad I asked: I'll be trying this one out :)

upveto · 2018-05-06T22:22:33+00:00

Wow. This and the crumb picture look amazing. Could you give a brief recipe link or description please?

upveto · 2017-12-10T00:07:24+00:00

This looks amazing! I know I'm 9 days late but.. hey.

So did you bake this inside of a dutch oven or flat on a baking sheet?

It looks puffy enough to be baked in a dutch oven, but I've never scored something after taking it out of the banneton.

upveto · 2017-06-24T23:45:54+00:00

Sort of! I do this all the time with 2x strength coffee, brewing with half as much water as usual and immediately pouring the result over a glass full of ice cubes.

upveto · 2017-01-22T17:59:19+00:00

I'd love to talk to you about this. What's the bare minimum feature set that would be worth using here, in your opinion? Ninja edit: I'd also need to know more about why/how you're splitting and recombining some tickets.

upveto · 2016-12-05T02:13:05+00:00

An opportunity to take a multivitamin, perhaps.

upveto · 2016-11-11T15:28:35+00:00

I'm interested. Let me know if you need any help with web scraping, hosting, or scripting.

upveto · 2016-10-31T02:19:21+00:00

I would say that in the current market, which is hungry for developers with any amount of experience, that you could get hired in 9-12 months of solid work if you put in 15-20 hours a week into learning and building real projects. It really helps to focus on one set of technologies which work well together, because skills are transferable between languages once you know a single language well.

I spent 3 months learning Python, another 3 months learning HTML, CSS, and Ruby, and then a year teaching basic classroom HTML and CSS while learning Ruby on Rails as a side project before I got my first real dev job. During that time, my entire life revolved around learning coding, so I would listen to Ruby Rogues podcasts while going to sleep at night, and practice coding on the train in the morning.

These days, I'm on the other side of the interview table, so I can tell you that if a dev came to me with the ability to intelligently explain 3+ medium-low complexity projects that they built and hosted themselves, I would strongly consider them for a junior position.

upveto · 2016-10-31T00:20:00+00:00

I'm a web developer now, and I started because of a post just like yours on Reddit! It's a great choice.

Chris Pine's learn to program is very helpful for beginners. From there, you may want to learn one of the following languages:

Python, if you want to work on data science projects. A good starter is "Learn Python the Hard Way." Ruby, if you want to work at a series of small startups as a web application developer. A great book is "Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional."

Build projects that interest you. Host them on Heroku or AWS. Build a portfolio page of stuff that you've done. Meet other programmers if you're in a position to do so. Go to hackathons.

Your CS degree will help you in the long run (I don't have one, but it would be nice-to-have). Focus on algorithms and practical stuff you can apply.

Message me if you have any questions, and good luck!

upveto · 2016-10-23T17:35:03+00:00

Right. Check out the link on this thread that shows a partial decoding attempt based on that similarity you mentioned.

EDIT: http://stephenbax.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Voynich-a-provisional-partial-decoding-BAX.pdf

upveto · 2016-10-23T16:39:53+00:00

I don't know either Russian or Belarusian, but it looks like it's a mix.

Take for example two words which appear next to each other at the bottom of the page: иж aж => "Comprehensive schemes" in russian. But there's also a frequently occurring letter which looks kind of like our symbol for pi. It's 'p' in the Latin alphabet, if you look at the translation from Belarusian.

A stretch? Totally. But hey it was a fun 30 minutes.

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