One of my minions (erm, I mean, "a valued junior member of my team") asked to be assigned to tasks more "data science related".
Regardless of the very last-decade sounding request, I tried to explain to the Jr that there is more to "data science" than distilling custom llms and downloading pytorch models. There are several entire fields of study. And those are all sciences. In this context, science equals math.
But they said they were not scared of math.
I've seen them using their phones to calculate freaking tips. If you can't do 15% of a lunch bill in your head, hypothesis tests might be a bit more than challenging.
But, ok then. Here we go.

So I had them do some semi-supervisioned clustering. On a database as raw as dirt, but with barely 5Gb, few dimensions and regarding subjects with easily available experts.
Even better, we had hundreds of manually classified training and test cases.
The Jr came back a month later with some convoluted mess of convoluted networks; just the serialized weights of the poor thing were about as large as the database itself.
And when I tried it on some other manually classified test datasets... Freaking 41% error rate, for something that should be a slam dunk. Little better than a coin toss.
One month of their time wasted on an overfitted unusable mess.

I had to re-assign the task to someone else, more experienced, last friday. It was monday when they came up with an iterative KNN approach giving error rates for several values of K... some of them with less than 15% error on the test dataset.

WTF are schools teaching and calling "data science" nowadays?!?!?
I reeeeally need to watch those juniors more closely. Maybe ask for middle-sprint demonstrations. But those are soooo boring and waste so much time from people who know what they are doing...
Does anyone have a better idea to prevent this type of off-track deviation? Without being a total bore, that is.

And... should I start asking people "gotcha" data analysis questions before giving them free reign on this type of tasks? Or is it an asshole boss move? I would hate someone giving me a pop quizz before letting me work... But I got no other ideas.

What no one told me was, as a senior resource how much context switching I need to do.
It's not even 12pm and I have been in 5 meetings, about 4 different projects
-- streaming platform but blockchain (Node, Golang) > planning + deployment issues meeting
-- goodreads but lighter > frontend approvals and ideas
-- custom node module development in C++ for internal db > debugging
-- SD card ETL tool > estimations and planning

I got an offer to be part of an asset management team in a position of "maintenance and reliability engineer" although I would be the IT/Infra/Network responsible. Basically chasing the integrator, and checking if they do their job according to expectations that the company currently doesn't have (🫣). I decided to let you guys decide.

To whom it may concern,

Fuck you.

Sincerely,
Sid the Paj Fuk

Day 28 of starving myself to death challenge. I’m… good, I suppose. Anxious though

There are too much Japanese on this site. There is such thing as too diverse. The Japanese on this site do not respect our wholesome dev culture.

remove the t from lgbtq and we're good

I got some old piece of shit computer from my cousins, they wanted me to retrieve the old pics on it so I did and now I don't know what to do with it.

I spent the day cleaning years of nasty ass dust off of it and wiped the whole case clean + new thermal paste.

Then I was like why tf am I doing all of this effort, this piece of crap has a single core pentium cpu with a whopping 512 MB of Ram and an 80 GB HDD with the worst cpu cooler mounting systems I have ever seen.

I was thinking of installing something like antix linux with pihole on it but the logical thing to do should be to just get a raspberry pi with has a much smaller form factor, performance and is a lot quieter so idk..

What’s the scientific reason behind wanting to sleep?

As long as I stay hydrated and eating to get enough energy I don’t see why I shouldn’t be able to go on forever or for a very long time (like a phone a charging while being used)

just picked up my new hot brunette gf from training in my brand new bmw (fuccboy batman car) and drove her home (shes not really close) we kissed again and she said her pussy is still destroyed from last night and this morning (i was the destroyer) feels good having a bitch who genuinely loves me (she cuddled and hugged me last night in bed for hours and looked me in the eyes) She also last night said she cant believe how lucky she is to have me, she said i quote that she feels like she hit the lotto by having me, she views me as God, and now as i write this rant she wrote me "thx a lot for taking me home 😘😘😘 you mean a lot to me" i love this I fking love making a better life to a female but only for a non whore female (non whore females are in 0.0000000000001% percentile) (12 zeros) and i can tell shes not a whore cz her pussy was so damn tight it was so nice as if she just lostt her virginity to me she also said im a beast🍆😈 in bed and realized the fking she had with her ex was NOTHing compared to the fucking of b2plane I also learned from AMS and fitxfearless that a bitch who kisses u after u done cumblasting her means shes not a whore cz a whore would be used to get fked and cumblasted so shes onto the next dick but this girl has kissed me after i cum so shes lowkey a good girl and i love it this is exactly all i asked for from a female PLEASE GOD dont let this girl be a whore PLEASE i just want a non whore female

good night

Burned out of life and forced to exist in a cell? I guess 🤷‍♂️

Well, my boss is officially unhinged.

He threatened me in a call. He thinks I ratted him out to HR for living over seas. Funny thing is I don't give a rats ass, he's got the wrong guy.

Going to HR now though, see if I can move teams to minimize the damage he can afflict on me.

1999 New Year’s Eve must’ve been awesome

My university sent me a signed paper. The signature was the ugliest, handwritten, version of a name. It was like a child signing their name for the very first time.

I am so happy, I am not alone with that problem. Thank you, university administrator, for sharing my plight.

Client: We're already behind schedule and over estimate

Also client: *keeps asking for more changes*

Why are civilians like this

3kg weight loss just by shitting

Hey rust people
Why not just release a new version of c that automatically deallocates unused variables that are out of scope unless somehow marked to be preserved in a point in ram and their location published in some form of reference table ?

Why were people in the kernel having fake arguments over stupid bs related to being expected to add your new language?

My grandma died and now I'm gonna inherit that painting of russian prisoner in the gulag. Warms my heart ahah these damn right wingers

you did a swell job roughin' up that threat, 𝐻𝑂𝑈𝑁𝐷

im on a backlog meeting and i need to shit so badly. ironically the meeting is "back-log" too and i need to shit a log from my back lol. i am full of shit!