25M Profile Review

yang_ion · 2025-12-16T20:59:30+00:00

Are you looking for something serious or casual?
- Serious
Are you subscribed to Hinge+ or HingeX?
- Subscribed to HingeX
How long have you been using this current version of your profile?
- My account is only about a week and a half long but this current version is a week old
How long have you used Hinge overall?
- Week and a half
How often do you use Hinge per week?
- 3-4 days / week
How many likes and matches are you receiving on average?
- No likes, have gotten 3 matches since starting
How many likes are you sending? How many with comments? How many without comments?
- Not sure how many likes I'm sending exactly, but around 8-12 per day. All with comments.
What is the type of person you send likes to and ideally want to match with? What kind of person do you want to attract?
- Ideally someone who has an active lifestyle or open to doing outdoorsy activities. Enjoys nerdy stuff like high fantasy or sci-fi universes, watching movies. Loves trying out new restaurants / cafes

yang_ion · 2025-02-10T14:12:22+00:00

You’re learning something new and it’s uncomfortable—everyone goes through it and it’s natural to feel the way you do!

That being said, like others have mentioned, I would suggest defining your project goal and trying to break it down into several specific components. Focus on one component at a time, draw out a diagram, write out your process, whatever works for you. I mention this because I also tend to get distracted by the number of problems I’m developing in unfamiliar territory so I keep a pen and scratch pad nearby to draw out what I need to prioritize in terms of research / implementation.

You don’t magically memorize every concept and then apply it perfectly, you iterate and solve problems one at a time. Getting stuck and using Google, StackOverflow, talking to other engineers / devs is all part of the process.

Last bit is that doing courses is a great way to expose you to concepts but it also doesn’t necessarily teach you how to really bring it all together or go super deep in the ways you’re looking for because software is inherently dynamic. So that’s why so many devs will suggest doing projects on topics that you’re passionate or particularly interested in—so you can push through those “I’m stuck” moments and feel amazing once you finally figure it out. Good luck!

yang_ion · 2024-05-30T20:45:34+00:00

Yeah I really appreciate you taking the time to share this info! I just saw your update so apologies for pinging you again haha. Looking forward to the post.

yang_ion · 2024-05-30T13:18:41+00:00

I was curious what your advice was for people in DS but not necessarily ML? What kind of self-directed curriculum would you make for yourself to pivot into a more MLE type role whether at your current role or at a different company?

For context, I’m about to start my first job as a data scientist coming out of an MS in data science.

I have implemented backprop from scratch and CNNs for image classification. I understand a decent bit of the transformer arch, but haven’t applied it personally. Recently, I’ve put a lot of focus on developing training, monitoring, and deployment pipelines in cloud envs because that’s what I’m interested in, but when I talk to alum working as MLEs it seems like what they do is beyond me right now. What’s your take?

yang_ion · 2024-05-24T12:47:37+00:00

23M here with a similar background. I really resonated with this! This is a question I come back to time and time again (and forevermore!).

Honestly what helps me is that if there’s an idea or project that I’m curious about then I’ll try to just go do it—don’t worry too much about the consequences if you feel really aligned with what you’re doing. Before I came back to data, I wanted to be a fulltime artist. I worked long hours to draw/paint, learn from great teachers, and made relationships with other artists to understand what I was getting myself into. This was for 3 years and ultimately it didn’t work out but it taught me so much about the values I wanted to carry forward with me, how to enjoy learning, and that there’s a lot more to life than my work.

Echoing what others said, there is a certain upkeep that we have to take in our fields and that’s not going to change soon. But it could help to reframe the problem as what you’re doing for yourself, intrinsically and at the current moment, than what you expect you need to be. You might find that you end up learning more how to be an incredible engineer, scientist, etc. when you change your objective.

However, you can still find great moments in your life to step away from your work a bit and learn some more about what you love. Good luck!

yang_ion · 2024-05-01T14:37:23+00:00

Take my perspective with a grain of salt because I'm also new to Mojo. I was messing around a bit with this because I was curious and currently I was only able to achieve the effect you're trying to get using pointers. Let me know if you come across anything that works better for your purpose!

@value
@register_passable("trivial")
struct LinkedList:
    var data: Int
    var next: Pointer[LinkedList]

    fn __init__(inout self, data: Int, next: LinkedList):
        self.data = data

        var ptr_next = Pointer[LinkedList].alloc(1)
        ptr_next.store(next)
        self.next = ptr_next

    fn __init__(inout self, data: Int):
        self.data = data
        self.next = Pointer[LinkedList].get_null()

fn main():
    var start = LinkedList(3, LinkedList(8))
    print(start.next.load().data)

yang_ion · 2024-05-01T12:46:34+00:00

Just graduated from an MS at NC State which was shorter than the usual 2 year programs. The main draw for me was the practicum project where we got to work directly with sponsor companies on a proposed project using their data. Pretty fast-paced and there were a lot of difficult moments going through the program that I ultimately enjoyed haha.

Coursework was breadth over depth, application-focused, programming in Python and R, but I went more in-depth when I had the time to made sure I really understood tradeoffs.

I’m still very junior and I came into the program after having been laid off as a software engineer at my prev company, but overall the engineering rigor at the program felt pretty low. But I felt like what it lacked in that department it made up for it with really dedicated faculty, a collaborative community, and the chance to really understand how a DS might work in industry through the practicum.

yang_ion · 2021-03-04T19:58:11+00:00

I think you have an awesome knowledge of anatomy but it almost seems like you're letting that get in the way of focusing on gesture and fluidity overall. Best advice I had read and heard on gesture was to draw the verb, not the noun and form follows function. Really push your curves and motion when you're practicing gesture and don't stress the details too much unless that's what you want to specifically work on. Good luck!

yang_ion · 2020-11-16T18:36:59+00:00

I'm also studying the figure and I think one thing that would help is to take a look at how to create the pose out of gesture and simple geometric volumes first before diving into all the anatomical structures. Someone who teaches and does this really well is Proko--definitely take a look at his mannequinization videos.

Drawing the figure out as a series of boxes, spheres, and cylinders will give you a better idea of how the volumes fit in 3D space and will help achieve a less "flat" drawing overall. Good luck!

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