Category: Education

Posts about Data Science and general tech education

Broadly vs. Locally-useful skills

Early on, I programmed on mainframes in COBOL... I'm sure I could do it again. But I'd be tossing away some highly valuable, broadly-applicable and...

To Optimize, or Not?

You should be forced to write efficient code and know how to do it in situations where it matters. You should also be able to...

Low-level understanding matters

If you haven't figured out how to get the most out of what you already have, don't ask me for more RAM/disk/CPU or anything else....

The horrors of open source!

It's possible to simplify the "normal" things for normal users while still providing source code and repositories that allow us strange creatures to continue experimenting,...

Promo for my SCaLE 16x talk

A promo video for my SCaLE 16x talk. This one features Mr. Spock and Flash the Linux Cat. As noted in my comments, pretty much...

Fantastic Use of Data

A bottom-up study of the potential economic impact of climate change shows how a large-scale data analysis should be done...