and I’m not sure I should learn from it. — I recently completely tanked a behavioral interview. I was asked 3 questions about dealing with conflict / disagreements and the interviewer’s opinion got worse and worse as I told stories. The company’s values lined up with mine like a waddling of ducklings, so how could it be? This is what…

and write more sustainable code. — Houston, we have a problem There is a fair amount of snobbery towards wizards of the spreadsheet in the data science community. Yet we are to seasoned ML engineers what excel power users are to us. Chatting to data scientist at meetups etc, there’s no end to the sarcasm we/they can spit towards excel power…

Perform proper version control on your team’s notebooks The struggle is real Let me give you two quick tests to differentiate a data scientist from a software engineer. Give them a simple coding task in Python, something that mostly uses common sense and then Only give them a jupyter notebook to work with Ask…

Poke at this modern dating concept in python. — Due to unfortunate events, a lot has been said and written about so called Incels, a concept now part of the manosphere / red pill dictionay. Interestingly, the story of the term “incel”, which I encourage you to learn about, is a story of unforeseen dynamics of a system that…

Key concepts needed for data scientists and economists to perform analysis on the Bitcoin Ledger. — Foreword: This is not an article on how to analyse the market value of BTC wrt other cryptos or fiat currencies. Any effect on your desire to invest is purely coincidental. I believe that the BTC ledger is an absolute goldmine of information that is vastly underused. To change this…

to get the most out of the book. — First and foremost, I’d like to acknowledge how critical books such as “Hands on Quantum Machine Learning with Python” by Frank Zickert | Quantum Machine Learning are and laud him for the efforts he put in learning the subject. I backed his kickstarter myself, read the book with anticipation and…

A funky intro to topology and Processing. — This is the second article in the “Painting unorientable surfaces” series. Each article is meant to be self-contained but if you want to start with part 0, on basic topology, head this way ! Processing and p5.js If you have never heard of Processing, you’re in for a treat!! I hope you didn’t…

Artificial Stupidity is being built every day. — One of the hallmark of wisdom is to recognize the vast amount of knowledge one doesn’t have. Not just the known unknown, but the size of the Unknown Unknowns. …

A Medium Series of thoughts on the ethics of using data circa 2019 — For data scientists, there does not seem to be an emergency in educating the public on the possibilities of “Big Data” and the future of Data Science. It has permeated pop culture for a while now, and many events flew way past news-worthiness to shake us at the core of…