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I’m so glad you mentioned the vertical taskbars being taken away. There’s a feedback item on Microsoft’s forums that’s years old now and they still haven’t addressed it. It seems s…

I like the thought, but I don’t think that logic holds generally. I can’t just declare I am someone (or represent someone) without some kind of evidence. If someone just accepted m…

How are you organizing your data for your RAG applications? I've searched all over and have found tons of tutorials about how the tech stack works, but very little about how the da…

Simon Willison’s blog: https://simonwillison.net/ . How the heck does he have time to post all that amazing stuff, AND be coding open-source, AND have some kind of day job? My god,…

The smaller the subpopulation, the higher the variance, and the less significant the result.

They just copied in the bullets from the article to save us a click :)

Wow, that’s an unnecessarily harsh criticism. The OP spent a lot of time coding this up, it’s still in progress, and they should feel proud of it! Anki isn’t for everybody, and may…

I guess the reason I want a FAANG job is the career security that comes with knowing that other companies will give me a second look because I have them on my resume. And of course…

Thanks! How do you recommend prioritizing that experience? I think my resume looks pretty good, but maybe it needs work. It goes: Short profile > skills > education (including cour…

I recently finished a masters in statistics and took multiple machine learning courses in the CS department along the way. I also minored in CS in college and have been "software-e…

I’m also a Fastmail user (for the past 5 years or so), but I’m considering switching to iCloud, given the announcement it’ll start supporting custom domains. Fastmail is pricey ($5…

I feel the same way! I don’t know how to get work done when there are so many meetings and random events, and yet my employer expects us to get it all done within 40 hours (and wil…

Can you elaborate on how you learned to be that effective? I’d much rather work less, but I find I can’t get work done in 40 hours, and my coworkers doing the same work can. I ofte…

Does that work with data science work, though? Along the way you build many models and many kinds of ad hoc analyses that can build up. I’ve yet to see someone write tests. For the…

How important is it for data scientists to have clean, modular, reusable code? Here’s my problem: while working on a project, I’ll start off in Jupyter notebooks, toying around wit…

I’ve used experience both Python and R for years, in multiple jobs, and still , whenever I need to make a visualization that’s anything more complicated than a single-panel bar/sca…

Thanks :)

Whoa! You’re going to finish all seven (six?) of those books over the next month? Just on nights and weekends? How are you so productive? How do you not burn out, given that (I ass…

"Puritanical" is definitely meant to imply unhealthy, which is why it's got such a negative connotation. I think even in your example, you substitute "wasted" productivity (in the …

What if I don't feel like I really have 10 years experience, but rather, 5 times 2 years' experience? It might be my self-confidence, but when I hear someone has 10 years' experien…

Thanks, this is helpful, especially about the list part. Is the ageism stuff really not true? Even if you want to work for Microsoft or Google, albeit not in Silicon Valley? I get …

Thanks for that reminder. I really value employers who are willing to give you a chance.

Thanks so much for the perspective. I really appreciate it. What's your perspective on this: it seems like the field has exploded in the past 10 years. As I've been programming for…

This is good advice. Thank you!

Thank you. The superheroes line is brilliant, I'll keep that one in mind. Regarding salary, I think I didn't choose my employers well. I live in a large northeastern metropolitan a…