Mastodawn

In my quest to become an excellent data scientist, I've suffocated all my other talents and hobbies. Drawing, guitar, sports, foreign languages.

I thought I couldn't have these because they consumed too much space in my mind. Turns out I was wrong. I just didn't know enough about practicing those skills.

A few months ago I restarted guitar practice, with modest success. Recently I restarted learning Polish. Next will be pen and ink, and lastly baseball.

On my way to become who I want to be.

luksfarris Feb 16

My office provides two brands of coffee to employees of two different qualities (which I will label "expensive" and "cheap").

So my colleagues did a double blind study to find which one is best. They found out not only there was not a statistical difference in preference, people also couldn't tell which one they were drinking.

luksfarris Feb 4

I ran across the blog of a great writer recently. And it was clear how, compared to theirs, my own writing is terrible. Mostly chaotic, but often lazy.
This person writes well not only in books, but papers, talks, even here on Mastodon. I'm very inspired to work harder on what I write from now on.

luksfarris Jan 21

Mozart the type of guy to spend 8 bars introducing a concept, and 32 bars closing it over and over

luksfarris Oct 21

Zack Whittaker Oct 21

It is nothing short of genuinely impressive how much money Microsoft makes, compared directly to how utterly shit to the core its software is to use.

luksfarris Oct 4

/\ndy Oct 4

want to know the real, honest, dirty little secret about what makes a successful, high performing software development team?

Decent and skilled human beings.

That's it. Apparently it's a really high bar to both know what you're doing and not be an ass.