Breza

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by Breza 6y ago
I completely agree with everything you say here. Well put.
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by Breza 6y ago
I like this approach. I check the inventory on a dealer's lot through their website, pick the car I want, learn what I can about it, and show up ready to skip the first steps. I ended up buying my current car from a no-haggle dealershi
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by Breza 6y ago
Totally agree about listening to the audiobook!
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by Breza 6y ago
It's incredible how much you can save on your bills! I read the book and called my ISP. I was polite and didn't threaten to leave or do anything aggressive and ended up paying less for faster service.
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by Breza 6y ago
Exactly! I would totally interview somebody for a Masters-level job if she were ending a year in such a cool job.
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by Breza 6y ago
You might like this guy: https://twitter.com/nyttypos?lang=en
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by Breza 6y ago
That six minute hourly news summary is available as a podcast. It's nice to dip into it when I want to hear the latest.
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by Breza 6y ago
I totally agree. Even non-developers can benefit from a better understanding of how the internet works.
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by Breza 6y ago
It can be refreshing to see the top coders making mistakes and instructive to see how they debug on the fly. I went to a Meetup where Hadley Wickham was the speaker (data science celeb). He made a mistake when writing code to explain a conc
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by Breza 6y ago
Totally agree. Watch a course like this, read something like Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson, and then work through all the problems in a book like Calculus Workbook For Dummies. Watch Khan Academy to fill in any areas where you&
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by Breza 6y ago
You touch on one of my frustrations with high school. In most schools, tracking means that you either take APs or you take classes that teach hands on skills. As if someone with a BA will never need to know how her car works.
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by Breza 6y ago
That's incredible!
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by Breza 6y ago
I completely agree! I run a data science department at a corporation and I give applicants real world data and ask them to answer real world questions. "Here's a dataset of the dates we sent an email and the open rate. Does one da
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by Breza 6y ago
As a new parent who wants the best for my baby, this really resonates with me!
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by Breza 6y ago
This kind of comment is what keeps me coming back to Hacker News
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by Breza 6y ago
That tangentially reminded me of this classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c
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by Breza 6y ago
That's a fantastic description. Never seen it before. I'm a data scientist. Some of my projects are DIY and some of them just consist of writing code to link data with existing models and I might start using "CIY" to des
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by Breza 6y ago
Agreed. I'm a data scientist looking to sharpen the computer science part of my craft, so a lot of web dev stuff just isn't relevant to me personally.
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by Breza 6y ago
This is a hugely important point. Having the right data is most of the battle in the typical project. I'm fortunate to run the data science department at a company with an amazing and supportive team of devs. We work together to make s
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by Breza 6y ago
Exactly! I run a data science department at a corporation. I've had exactly one production level project that was sufficiently complicated to require deep learning. I am currently working on the second. I always start with the simplest
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by Breza 6y ago
A lot of the data brokers specialize in specific audiences. For example, I work with a lot of physician data at my job and a ton of companies sub-specialize in specific aspects of that market.
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by Breza 6y ago
Or the next time you're using Tor with an EU exit node...
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by Breza 6y ago
I bet a blog post about your story would get a lot of votes here. I'd read it.
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by Breza 6y ago
This is an interesting question. I was technical lead for CCPA and GDPR implementation at my company. We keep hashes of email addresses that have asked to be forgotten and we compare new email signups with the hash list to make sure we neve
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by Breza 6y ago
If you get serious about data science, you're going to end up reading/watching a lot of different resources. I'm a data scientist and I'd suggest starting with fast.ai and then following your interests elsewhere. The bes
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by Breza 6y ago
I just drove home from cleaning out my office. I'm now officially remote. I don't plan to move. I live in Washington DC, and I found a job that would let me stay here after graduation. The rise of remote work opens up more job opp
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by Breza 6y ago
I've thought about this as I've read the book Coming Home: Reentry and Recovery from Space. The fixation on a space plane probably set back the US space program by decades whereas a more boring evolutionary tree descended from the
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by Breza 6y ago
I used to work overnight and trained myself to get better at sleep. It's more than just limiting screen time. I started sleeping better when I created an entire process that signaled to my body that it was time to sleep.
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by Breza 6y ago
Whoa cool! How have I never heard of this before?
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by Breza 6y ago
I completely agree with this. In undergrad, I majored in non-profit management. Every single course in major had a field work requirement. Grant writing class required us to work with an area charity and write them a grant application, whic

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