Today after over a decade of programming, I was reminded that programming is hard. I was committing a fix to PyMC3 (but it could have been any project, and I definitely make those mistakes professionally), and Thomas was good enough to point out ‘break-point committed’. JD Long shared his own war stories. The lesson I… Continue reading Coding is hard
Category: data engineering
Why Zalando’s tech radar sucks as a stack
I’ve been programming professionally for about 5 years now. So I don’t consider myself a brilliant expert. Never the less one thing I think that I’ve learned is that it isn’t about the ‘technical problems’ it’s about whether or not you solve a real-world or meaningful problem. Some people call these ‘business problems’ but they… Continue reading Why Zalando’s tech radar sucks as a stack
Interview with a Data Scientist: Greg Linden
I caught up with Greg Linden via email recently Greg was one of the first people to work on data science in Industry – he invented the item-to-item collaborative filtering algorithm at Amazon.com in the late 90s. I’ll quote his bio from Linkedin: “Much of my past work was in artificial intelligence, personalization, recommendations, search,… Continue reading Interview with a Data Scientist: Greg Linden
Why Code review? Or why should I care as a data scientist.
The insightful Data Scientist Trey Causey talks about Software Development Skills for Data Scientists I’m going to write about my views on Code Review – as a Data Scientist with a few years experience, and experience delivering Data Products at organizations of varying sizes. I’m not perfect and I’m still maturing as an Engineer. A good… Continue reading Why Code review? Or why should I care as a data scientist.