Me: The feature you built is not working, at all. Here are the specific ways it is not working, and wasting millions of dollars. Here are data demonstrating this. Engineer: what are we trying to solve for here https://twitter.com/antoniogm/status/1300609901572419584 …
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Replying to @eigenrobot
My saddest private sector story is that we hired an mechanical engineering PhD as a data scientist once and eventually had to place him under a sociology BA. Think it stung pretty bad
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Replying to @knrd_z @eigenrobot
Uff. Was she better at the relevant stuff or was it a project manager and engineer situation.
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Replying to @SameOldTrain @eigenrobot
Former. Turned out the engineer had little stats knowledge and was esp useless in our domain, where sometimes you needed to think about humans. Last I checked he moved onto simulations which is better for everyone.
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Stats is so underrated these days. You don't get to skip stats just because you have a PhD in physics from Stanford with development experience and can use tensorflow. I mean that's super cool and I'm sure they're smarter than me, but stats is critical.
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I solved a sort of paradox today with basic stats reasoning as the sole IC in a chat with my manager, his manager, and the former lead IC who is now a manager Felt very clever coming up with a subtle resolution by deduction then five minutes later producing a chart confirming it
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If you were in that chat uh opsec rekt
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