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...I haven't posted much here for a long time, and won't be back.
Hilary Mason
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Hilary Mason
@hmason
Co-Founder of @PlayHiddenDoor. Formerly Founder of @FastForwardLabs (acquired by @Cloudera). I ♥ data and cheeseburgers. She/her.
- TIL that the phrase software "patch" is from a physical patch applied to Mark 1 paper tape to modify the program.
- Data scientists hate Excel.Dermatologists hate the sun. Pediatricians hate trampolines. ENTs hate Q-tips. What is the mortal enemy of other specialties?
- I think every data scientist has a story about a time when someone from product or business with relative power demanded they find a specific pre-determined answer in the data. Data scientists generally push back. How this goes depends on the quality of the org and leadership.
- When you want to use a new algorithm that you don't deeply understand, the best approach is to implement it yourself to learn how it works, and then use a library to benefit from robust code. Here's one article showing this with neural networks in Python: towardsdatascience.com/how-to-build-y…
- When you say "hiring junior data scientists is a risk" I hear "we don't have competent management of our data science team". Sadly, I've heard this a few times this week.
- AI is not inscrutable magic -- it's math and data and computer programming, made by regular humans. People who make AI are not unicorns. They are just people who like math and data and computer programming.What‘s something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public seems to misunderstand?
- This is under-appreciated advice and totally true.You’re unable to view this Post because this account owner limits who can view their Posts. Learn more
- You can tell how much hype there is for any AI term by the number of brains that show up in the google image search results.
- Bad management is so endemic in tech companies that weak managers often don't even know they are weak, and power dynamics often mean they have no motivation to improve.
- The combo of sexism and AI hype on thegrid.io is awful. "She's quirky, but will never ghost you" ... it's a computer program.
- Learned today that you can get the list of all people who have advertised at you on Twitter here: x.com/webview/your_t… #icwsm2017
- Now that I'm programming every day again I'm reminded how much I really love it. 🥰👩🏻💻
- My new hobby: judging people by the open tabs in their browser during a live software demo.
