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New comment by natalyarostova in "Why do tree-based models still outperform deep learning on tabular data?"

natalyarostova — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 21:49:18 +0000

I think part of the problem is that the upper bound on neural nets, as far as we can tell, might very well be general intelligence, and things like self-driving cars, and other nearly magical use-cases that seem within reach. Whereas tree based models, for a series of reasons, many related to scaling, don't offer that feeling of limitless potential.

New comment by natalyarostova in "Ask HN: Which new skills for a data science career?"

natalyarostova — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 20:54:39 +0000

Definitely not my experience in big tech data science. 30-50% of data scientists I work with don’t have a PhD, and took the self-taught hacker path, and earn just as much as PhDs. I probably earned a total of a million bucks by time I was as old as the average PhD data scientist hire out of academia.

New comment by natalyarostova in "Ask HN: I am studying economics and want to work in Tech. How?"

natalyarostova — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 20:25:36 +0000

To add to this, I do not have a phd in econ, but did what you recommended and work as a data scientist with PhD economists. If you do this, you will make just as much as they do.

New comment by natalyarostova in "Ask HN: Would you give up 100% more salary as a junior SWE/MLE?"

natalyarostova — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 18:21:58 +0000

Try not to feel this is your one chance and you only have two options. You can get offers again. In addition, you could get work as a machine learning engineer in industry, either now or in a few years. You could spend another year doing deep learning, but dedicate 10% of your time to networking in industry and staying good at interviews, then reevaluate later.

New comment by natalyarostova in "Ask HN: What will stay the same in the next 50 years?"

natalyarostova — Fri, 31 Dec 2021 22:33:48 +0000

Scientific method is undergoing intense changes in methodology. I suspect in 50 years the way causal inference is done will in many areas be radically different.

New comment by natalyarostova in "Ask HN: Thoughts – will Microsoft ever publish Excel for Linux?"

natalyarostova — Sat, 27 Nov 2021 02:55:44 +0000

I suspect the future is just a good browser excel, rather than a Linux custom excel.

New comment by natalyarostova in "Stripe Shut Us Down"

natalyarostova — Sat, 16 Oct 2021 22:25:03 +0000

I assume they are working on it, and in the meantime employees are going out of their way to help where possible in a way that doesn’t scale.

New comment by natalyarostova in "Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefinitely"

natalyarostova — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 01:40:58 +0000

After doing 5 years of interviews, I think part of the issue is Amazon doesn’t really do onboarding, so everyone is scared of making an L6 offer, because the new hire is expected to perform equal to an L6 who has already been at Amazon for years, on day 1.

New comment by natalyarostova in "Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefinitely"

natalyarostova — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 01:38:26 +0000

I quit Amazon a few months ago for the same reason. Holy shit Amazon culture does not work over video. I used to work hard, but I would stay late with my cool team and we’d build things. That stopped happening and I burned out.

New comment by natalyarostova in "Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefinitely"

natalyarostova — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 21:08:49 +0000

They stopped being able to hire seniors easily. So I quit, because working with 8 people 1 year out of college, and myself with 7 years exp, was awful.

New comment by natalyarostova in "Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?"

natalyarostova — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 16:26:05 +0000

Yes

New comment by natalyarostova in "Housing First [pdf]"

natalyarostova — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 05:30:59 +0000

Rofl

New comment by natalyarostova in "Housing First [pdf]"

natalyarostova — Sat, 04 Sep 2021 05:23:54 +0000

Not sure what that has to do with anything. Dying in public from drug addiction suicide on the streets of the tenderloin is about as bad as it gets. People aren’t choosing it through rational analysis of alternatives and shelter trauma. They choose it because it lets them fulfill their 8 hour dopamine cycle.

New comment by natalyarostova in "Housing First [pdf]"

natalyarostova — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 19:19:22 +0000

Yeah. The safety and peace of the tenderloin is an attractive alternative.

New comment by natalyarostova in "Seeking advice: Cush job without much learning"

natalyarostova — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 18:10:17 +0000

Be super careful that you don’t end up at your 1 year review, and when they ask for your portfolio of work, you show nothing.

New comment by natalyarostova in "Ask HN: It seems like everyone is getting rich?"

natalyarostova — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 01:51:50 +0000

You would have sold it at all for $1000 anyway and thought if it as a lucky goof lol.

New comment by natalyarostova in "Ask HN: Have you ever written code that you later regretted for ethical reasons?"

natalyarostova — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 00:39:51 +0000

Nope!

New comment by natalyarostova in "Ask HN: Is it just me, or do most data scientists hate their jobs?"

natalyarostova — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 22:11:38 +0000

There isn’t enough talented DS management. They end up being managed by people who don’t know what is going on 4/5 times.

New comment by natalyarostova in "Ask HN: How useful is it to live in a city?"

natalyarostova — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 21:57:09 +0000

If you’re bored in a small town, it’s not a bad idea.

New comment by natalyarostova in "Ask HN: Building a startup while working elsewhere and parenting?"

natalyarostova — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 18:18:50 +0000

I cannot believe this works for you, hahaha, but I’m glad it does. Nice!!