Staff OR Engineer @ Andela, Adjunct @ SNHU, author of Test-Driven Machine Learning, MS OR @ GA Tech. I also photo
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1 Jan 2022
Happy New Year! I pulled together a collection of the photos I took this year that I enjoyed the most: idyllmoments.com/blog/my-fav…
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9 Nov 2022
I’m gonna log off for a while and give mastodon a solid try. Hit me up @justbozo@mas.to or @bozo@mathstodon.xyz
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8 Nov 2022
You’re in her DMs, I bought her a rice cooker. We are not the same.
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7 Nov 2022
This is a great thread… in addition flip this and instead think what about if you lean into being prone to being laid off? How can you use that to your advantage and how would it change your strategy? Instead of risk averse try risk resilient.
6 Nov 2022
This is my third recession in tech, here's my playbook:
1. Cut spending. Put off vacations, auto, and home purchases. Have 12 months of emergency savings.
2. Put in more effort at work to reach the top 25% of performance.
3. Learn more marketable skills with your extra time.
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7 Nov 2022
This is big brain energy. I’ve found it’s only worth getting to that top 5-10% if it happens accidentally. When you’re just such a natural fit you’re tripping over success.
6 Nov 2022
Yeah, that's why I'd cap the efforts to reach top 25%, not top 10%. Definitely diminishing returns to beyond that, especially in a recession. Leaving some energy to skill up, network, and be ready to move.
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6 Nov 2022
I’m trying some things out on mastodon. @justbozo@mas.to or @bozo@mathstodon.xyz
5 Nov 2022
Me: Waiting for my new Anker 3D printer with multi-color filament support… BEN apparently stuck in my late 90s high school library:
4 Nov 2022
Got a printer today. Things are wild over here.
Gonna start an unboxing channel for office supplies. @vboykis you in with your hole puncher?
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5 Nov 2022
I’ve spent the last 15 minutes trying to try mastodon but can’t get registered on any server for those of you who think this is an alternative.
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4 Nov 2022
Holy shit.
4 Nov 2022
This is a big deal! One of the biggest barriers to adoption has been a lack of high quality open source solvers. It's also been one of the key differences between ML and OR tools. Is the era of the open source solver finally here?
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2 Nov 2022
I have been waiting for someone to go this route.
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1 Nov 2022
Them: “We’ve still got 2 months of work until the EoY”
Me: 😂
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30 Oct 2022
So I’ve had this Leica Q2 Monochrom for a couple months now I think… and GD if it wasn’t a great buy. I have a ISO 25,000 photo of my daughter in a dimly lit dance class and it looks like ISO 3,200 and sharp as a GD tack. It’s gonna be my Xmas morning camera this year.
25 Oct 2022
I’m happy to trade meeting coworkers at the water cooler for being tackled by toddlers in the hallway.
25 Oct 2022
One *great* thing about working from home is that you don’t have to wait more than 30 seconds between closing your work laptop after a long day and doing the Hokey Pokey with two toddlers.
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25 Oct 2022
Some times drawing a data viz that’s complex and requires explanation is itself useful to underscore the complexity of the domain.
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25 Oct 2022
The thing my statistics students struggle with is undefined variables because they don’t execute the notebook cells in order.
22 Oct 2022
77" OLED TV Dolby Vision Atmos in 11.1 surround sounds playing Cocomellon on Netflix. <.<
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21 Oct 2022
1. CRITICAL: Figure out how to reproduce the problem.
2. CRITICAL: You need to know EXACTLY what the code should do. If no one knows… You may not have a bug but a use case and scope creep.
21 Oct 2022
POV: You're in a legacy codebase you've never seen before, written in a language you don't know and you need to fix a bug in this code. You don't know what's causing the bug. Nobody knows.
How do you approach this problem?
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21 Oct 2022
My new go to question whenever I talk to someone in tech after they tell me what they do.
21 Oct 2022
Still thinking about that time a VC asked me why he should invest in me when he can find 3 Stanford grads to build the same exact thing but better.
21 Oct 2022
I’ve been shopping for a camera to take with me on vacation. I literally bought 8-10 different cameras from 1” sensor point and shoots to the Sony a6600. I wanted something jacket pocket friendly with bokeh, dynamic range, and eye AF. Winner? Canon m200. 🧵
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21 Oct 2022
Look up this camera. It’s tiny, sports interchangeable APS-C lenses and has a kill pancake lens 22mm f/2 (roughly 35mm), eye AF, nice dynamic range, shoots raw. It’s an EF-M mount and that’s sort of dead BUT this is priced cheaper than similar fixed lens cameras.
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21 Oct 2022
An example sunset photo with the pancake lens. Just a stellar value.
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