Lessons Learned from Two Years as a Data Scientist
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Lessons Learned from Two Years as a Data Scientist
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Re: Lessons Learned from Two Years as a Data Scientist
#2Nice pictures. (Didn't read the words... but I liked the pictures.)
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#3I was hoping for more DS related stuff. It almost sounds like you're learning to be a SWE!
The investing section is curious.
> On brilliant advice from the man who arguably went from mere millions to decabillions faster than anyone in modern history, I've put a large chunk of my money in leveraged index funds and etfs
Who are you referencing here and did you do any DD other than taking his advice?
I'm wondering what the downsides of leveraged index funds and ETFs are since I'm not sure how they work.
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#4> Google doesn't allow any production-level projects to be written in python due to safety concerns
Is this actually true? If it's true that Google doesn't allow Python in production, it seems unlikely that it's due to security concerns.
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#5Nice pictures. (Didn't read the words... but I liked the pictures.)
Good to know I'm not the only one.
Re: Lessons Learned from Two Years as a Data Scientist
#6I was hoping for more DS related stuff. It almost sounds like you're learning to be a SWE! The investing section is curious. > On brilliant advice from the man who arguably went from mere millions to decabillions faster than anyone in modern history, I've put a large chunk of my money in leveraged index funds and etfs Who are you referencing here and did you do any DD other than taking his advice? I'm wondering what…
The leverage means they go up faster, but they also go down faster.
In regular investing you feel good when you get a modest return, and bad when you experience a modest loss. With leveraged funds you feel like a genius when the market goes up and like a complete moron when you get wiped out.
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#7I was hoping for more DS related stuff. It almost sounds like you're learning to be a SWE! The investing section is curious. > On brilliant advice from the man who arguably went from mere millions to decabillions faster than anyone in modern history, I've put a large chunk of my money in leveraged index funds and etfs Who are you referencing here and did you do any DD other than taking his advice? I'm wondering what…
Almost definitely Warren Buffett, who went so far as to make a very public bet that index funds performed better than hedge funds (and thus most active investing). You can see details on the deal and outcome here https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/030916/buffe...
Also, he's got tens of billions.
Edit: Or maybe not on reflection about the "faster than anyone" bit. I dunno.
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#8I really liked this post. Tons of small tidbits I feel I'd only get from working in the teams they worked on. Some things I noted:
* Check out `ray` as an alternative to `multiprocessing`
* Check out `tqdm`
* Use `pdb` more
* See if fast.ai or https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-transformer/ are worthwhile
* Prioritize the papers I read better
* _Leveraged_ index funds?
Re: Lessons Learned from Two Years as a Data Scientist
#9> Google doesn't allow any production-level projects to be written in python due to safety concerns Is this actually true? If it's true that Google doesn't allow Python in production, it seems unlikely that it's due to security concerns.
I heard this second-hand, not totally sure it's true
Re: Lessons Learned from Two Years as a Data Scientist
#10> Google doesn't allow any production-level projects to be written in python due to safety concerns.
Is this true?