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Initially that was my experience too but over the past 2 years I've found that more and more places are switching to Java or Python for Spark Data Engineering actually, it might only be in my local market though.

Yes I've noticed this too. After a few Scala contract gigs (3 years) I haven't done any Scala in the past year and a half, Java and Python seem to be gaining more ground for new projects, specially in the enterprise or government.

Auditory hallucinations are my favourite weed side-effect.

Interesting read...I actually came to this very conclusion after an amazing mushroom trip when I was watching the movie "her". I actually drew schematics of how I envisioned the whole system would work lol.

>I think kids see those exercise problems as arbitrary and therefore unmotivated to do them.

This is exactly how I felt growing up. It wasn't until actually looking at the practical applications of math that I got it. Doing equations for the sake of it without any actual context constantly frustrated me to no end and made me hate math and physics because it made me feel incompetent and stupid, it's been a struggle getting rid of this feeling even to date.

But how do you get people to talk to you in the first place? How do you get potential customers to disclose their true problems? As an introvert I have ZERO clue about how to start the conversation, how to introduce myself, if I'm not telling them I'm working on something then what the hell do I say I am?

You mean "how to move mount Fuji?"

Agree I would have signed up if it wasn't for the pricing...as it stands now it's totally not worth it.

What about brainfuck?

Can you summarize some of the techniques suggested in the course?

Python, Scala and Go would be great additions (in that order).

it should be in a bigger font, and it seems like it's the only place where language compatibility is clearly visible without going into the documentation.

Safari Books online, Netflix, Google Play Music, Amazon Prime

Music...I've always loved music but never learned to play an instrument, the few times I tried I got so frustrated because I'm always hearing melodies/rhythmic patterns in my head and could never replicate them with my rudimentary skills and terrible hand coordination, and growing up I never had enough money for lessons. In my 20's I was working and studying full time so I had no time whatsoever for hobbies and now in my 30's I have money and time but no energy or passion for music like I did when I was younger.

Thanks!

AWS certs seem to be valued by enterprise clients in my experience.

Great post however does anyone know how rate limiting specific users is typically implemented? For instance if you have a SaaS API with multiple subscription plans you generally rate limit users based on tier e.g free tier: up to X number of requests, paid tier: unlimited number of requests, etc. I am assuming this is typically handled in the API itself.

Thanks in advance.

This is really really cool. What's the backend stack like if you don't mind me asking? I was thinking of implementing something like this for Daily Fantasy Sports stats...kinda like https://www.statmuse.com

Thanks appreciate it.

Might be a long shot but do you have any advice on how to get a "strong intuitive grasp" of probability, games (I'm assuming you mean game theory?) and asymmetric payoff situations.

Any recommended study path?.

Thanks in advance.

As an introvert with mild autism I always struggled to develop a personality but I can tell you what worked for me:

Talk to people, even people you think you have absolutely nothing in common with (specially people from different cultural backgrounds than yours, if you have access to any) and ask them about themselves. Be curious and really try to be interested in what they have to say and try to get to know them as people without being judgemental (this was really hard for me at times because I tend to be too black/white). I started at work (because I don't socialize outside of work much) and I literally talked to anyone who would be open to in the office. I struggled at first because I wanted to be listened to too, I wanted to express my points of view, etc but I held back and asked people about themselves instead, after a while people will be curious to hear about you.

Talk to enough people and soon everybody will know who you are, you will be known as a great listener and everyone will want to talk to you, confide in you. Try and learn from what other people have to say, their stories, their personalities, what drives them. This helped me immensely in developing a charisma, knowing what makes other people tic gave me a framework that enabled me to adjust my behavior accordingly.

Anyway hope this helps.

Not necessarily, I've been told that I'm highly opinionated but I am anything but exceptional (average, below average at best).

>I believe the biggest advancement in the field of education is going to come with VR

I'm 100% with you on this. I've been saying this since VR became mainstream, I'm dying to start something in the e-learning space that takes advantage of VR/Augmented Reality but have no idea where to start.

"Making it better" is usually not a simple task, specially for established products.

Can I contact you? A bit hesitant about putting my email here.

I have a feeling that e-learning is going to be the killer app for VR/Augmented reality.

Yes you are absolutely right, DSP knowledge is also a must. I didn't get that far, I started by identifying what makes people like a certain song and got it down to: Lyrical themes (and overall artist thematic) and melodic and rhythmic patterns. For instance by analyzing data from last.fm I found that a lot of people that listen to Black Metal also seem to have an interest in european/celtic/gaelic folk music, but not all only certain artists with specific lyrical themes and what seemed to me as specific melodic patterns.

Anyway the thing that stumped me was identifying/creating the "features" for rhythmic & melodic patterns, eventually I realized that I was way out of my league and had to drop it.

Later on I found that someone else was already working on this: http://benanne.github.io/2014/08/05/spotify-cnns.html

I agree however, creating something revolutionary in these spaces takes more than just fiddling with a couple of tensorflow tutorials or udacity courses.

For instance I've always wanted to have a music recommendation engine/app that instead of using collaborative filtering uses some kind of machine learning or deep learning algorithm(s) to identify lyric sentiment, complexity and melodic/rhythmic patterns to recommend me music based on that (across different genres). It turns out that something that seemed straightforward (I really thought I could tackle this after playing around with tensorflow and machine learning tutorials & MOCS) actually requires a lot of specialized/intimate knowledge about how these algorithms work and the theory behind them, I would need to spend quite some time studying (and understanding) before I can even begin coding this as a side project for instance.

I'm stuck in the same spot. I agree that a lot of niches are already quite saturated.

Are you open to collaborate? Maybe if we put our heads together we could think of something.

You are absolutely right. I guess the point I was trying to make is that companies are not considerate when it comes to a candidate's time. IF after making a candidate go through a coding test or several interviews you still have doubts then don't hire him, simple as that. Nowadays companies/hiring managers/interviewers are used to treating us like crap, sometimes for their own amusement.Expecting candidates to pull out magic in a coding challenge is becoming more and more common, even when they know that a candidate won't be able to pull it off, it's almost as if interviewers enjoy turning people down and watching people struggle during interviews has become a (sadistic)leisure activity for them.