tomaskazemekas

Beyond Analysis (https://www.beyondanalysis.info) | Data Engineers | Senior or Mid | Vilnius, Lithuania or EU | Full time | Remote or Hybrid

Beyond Analysis is an award winning data science, analytics and strategic data solutions and consulting business with teams operating in the UK, Lithuania and EU. Since 2007, we have helped our clients to drive efficiency gains and business improvements by enabling them to better understand their customers and business operations by implementing cutting edge data solutions.

We are looking for candidates with excellent knowledge of SQL, Python, experience working with AWS or GCP, creating and maintaining ETL pipelines, Apache Airflow, Docker, Apache Spark.

We offer a modern office in Vilnius, Old town, a private gym next door to the office, courses and certificates of your choice, and other professional growth opportunities. Salary range 3500 - 5500 EUR/month (gross).

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The book by the Carol S. Dweck, "Mindset" was very insightful on the topic. https://mindsetonline.com/thebook/buythebook/index.html

I have completed several courses earlier for free and have one paid (Functional Programming in Scala) this year. The experience has met my expectations. The forums were not as active as in the early days, but the participants were discussing and some TA were posting too. Of course, it is mostly self study but I was not expecting a lot of live mentoring for 79 USD per course. I do plan to take more courses on Coursera as well.

Location: Kaunas, Lithuania, Europe.

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Pragmatic data developer. Specializing in data software and machine learning solutions development. Python (Pandas, NumPy, Scipy), Scala (Apache Spark), MongoDB, Postgres. Have worked with clients from USA, France, Australia, Israel. Idustries: Fintech, Network Management.

Resume/CV: http://stackoverflow.com/users/story/3052217

Email: tomaskazemekas(at)gmail.com

SEEKING WORK - Remote, Kaunas, Lithuania, Europe.

Pragmatic data developer. Specializing in data software nad machine learning solutions development. Python (Pandas, NumPy, Scipy), Scala (Apache Spark), MongoDB, Postgres. Have worked with clients from USA, France, Australia, Israel. Idustries: Fintech, Network Management.

Stackowerflow profile: http://stackoverflow.com/users/story/3052217

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Email: tomaskazemekas(at)gmail.com

Location: Kaunas, Lithuania, Europe.

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Pragmatic data developer. Specializing in data software and machine learning solutions development. Python (Pandas, NumPy, Scipy), Scala (Apache Spark), MongoDB, Postgres. Have worked with clients from USA, France, Australia, Israel. Idustries: Fintech, Network Management.

Resume/CV: http://stackoverflow.com/users/story/3052217

Email: tomaskazemekas(at)gmail.com

SEEKING WORK - Remote, Kaunas, Lithuania, Europe.

Pragmatic data developer. Specializing in data software nad machine learning solutions development. Python (Pandas, NumPy, Scipy), Scala (Apache Spark), MongoDB, Postgres. Have worked with clients from USA, France, Australia, Israel. Idustries: Fintech, Network Management.

Stackowerflow profile: http://stackoverflow.com/users/story/3052217

Upwork profile: https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~01f8457646283f95a3

Email: tomaskazemekas(at)gmail.com

This blog post is included in the book The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers (Robert C. Martin Series).

As far as the fiction can envision the techno future and human AI interaction, one of the more interesting books for me was SNUFF by Victor Pelevin. In it the main character is a freelancer drone camera operator living with a humanoid as a partner, tweaking her settings and getting very emotionally and sexually involved with her. And the devise is so human like and autonomous, that it eventually runs away from the owner leaving him with huge debt still unpaid.

Fasting in the 5:2 method does not mean not eating all day. It means reducing the amount of calories to 1/4 of typical daily value. Usually it comes to having light breakfast, 180-220 kcal, skipping lunch and finishing the day with 250-350 kcal dinner.

I can link to this good artice in The Americal Journal of Medicine, Achieving Hunter-gatherer Fitness in the 21st Century: Back to the Future. http://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(10)00463-8/pdf

And the subsequent discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10863626

One diet that reflects these findings and is tested personally is "5:2 fast diet, proposed by M. Mosley. This method really is effective in reducing the ill effects of modern food and lifestyle and is easy to turn into normal weekly behavior pattern. https://thefastdiet.co.uk/

One of the main problems with violence inspired by morality is that many moral systems accept the use of force and thus violence as main course of action to improve the status of the world.

This makes moral systems that propagate principles of non violence, like Ahimsa, worth spreading.

One of the authors of the article is Michael Mosley, the author of 5:2 diet. http://thefastdiet.co.uk/

SEEKING WORK

Location: Kaunas, Lithuania

Remote: Yes

Technologies: Python, Matlab, MongoDB, SQL, Machine Learning, NoSQL solutions.

Resume/CV: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/tomaskazemekas

Email: tomaskazemekas at gmail.com

Data software developer making custom analytic solutions for clients in finance, retail and other industries. Focusing on analytic predictive and NoSQL part of applications. For example, one of my recent projects was algorithmic trading app for Interactive Brokers API on Matlab developed for a client in New York.

Location: Kaunas, Lithuania

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, Matlab, MongoDB, SQL, Machine Learning, NoSQL solutions.

Resume/CV: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/tomaskazemekas

Email: tomaskazemekas at gmail.com

Data software developer making custom analytic solutions for clients in finance, retail and other industries. Focusing on analytic predictive and NoSQL part of applications. For example, one of my recent projects was algorithmic trading app for Interactive Brokers API on Matlab developed for a client in New York.

SEEKING WORK

Location: Kaunas, Lithuania

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, Matlab, Java, MongoDB, Apache Spark, Hadoop, SQL, Machine Learning, Data development.

Resume/CV: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/tomaskazemekas

Email: tomaskazemekas at gmail.com

Data software developer making custom analytic solutions for clients in finance, retail and other industries. Focusing on analytic and predictive side of web applications.

For example, one of my recent projects was algorithmic trading app for Interactive Brokers API on Matlab developed for a client in New York.

SEEKING WORK

Location: Kaunas, Lithuania

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, Matlab, Java, MongoDB, Apache Spark, Hadoop, SQL, Machine Learning, Data development.

Resume/CV: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/tomaskazemekas Email: tomaskazemekas at gmail.com

Data software developer making custom analytic solutions for clients in finance, retail and other industries. Focusing on analytic and predictive side of web applications.

For example, one of my recent projects was algorithmic trading app for Interactive Brokers API on Matlab developed for a client in New York.

Tech and Asia focus makes this list different and more unexpected than other similar lists.

SEEKING WORK

Location: Kaunas, Lithuania

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, Matlab, Java, MongoDB, Apache Spark, Hadoop, SQL, Machine Learning, Data development.

Resume/CV: https://lt.linkedin.com/in/tomaskazemekas

Email: tomaskazemekas at gmail.com

Data software developer making custom analytic solutions for clients in finance, retail and other industries. Fucusing on analytic and predictive side of web applications. Can work on a project / contract / freelance basis.

Location: Kaunas, Lithuania

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, Matlab, Java, MongoDB, Apache Spark, Hadoop, SQL, Machine Learning, Data development.

Resume/CV: lt.linkedin.com/in/tomaskazemekas

Email: tomaskazemekas at gmail.com

Data software developer making custom analytic solutions for clients in finance, retail and other industries. Fucusing on analytic and predictive side of web applications. Can work on a project / contract / freelance basis.

This is posted as a pointer to the start of the series of posts on the time series analytics. There are already three articles in this series posted, I find them to be good and the upcoming posts expected to be of value as well.

You can pass by the Economist paywall by doing a Google search for original title of the article "No good deed goes unpunished".

This reminded me the description of Tibetan Buddhist teachings about the nature of the mind from the book "The Joy of Living" by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche:

"Later, when I came to the West, I heard a number of psychologists compare the experience of 'mind' or 'self' to watching a movie. When we watch a movie, they explained, we seem to experience a continuous flow of sound and motion as individual frames pass through a projector. The experience would be drastically different, however, if we had the chance to look at the film frame by frame.

"This is exactly how my father [Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche] began to teach me to look at my mind. If I observed every thought, feeling, and sensation that passed through my mind, the illusion of a limited self would dissolve, to be replaced by a sense of awareness that is much more calm, spacious, and serene. And what I learned from other scientists was that because experience changes the neuronal structure of the brain, when we observe the mind this way, we can change the cellular gossip that perpetuates our experience of our 'self'."

Wikipedia defines: "Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is a mindfulness-based program designed initially to assist people with pain and a range of conditions and life issues that were difficult to treat in a hospital setting developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, which uses a combination of mindfulness meditation, body awareness, and yoga to help people become more mindful. In recent years, meditation has been the subject of controlled clinical research. This suggests it may have beneficial effects, including stress reduction, relaxation, and improvements to quality of life, but that it does not help prevent or cure disease. While MBSR has its roots in spiritual teachings, the program itself is secular. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindfulness-based_stress_reduct...

When I was looking for mindfulness resources on HN, one of the fundamental books on the subject was referenced in one of the comments: "Full Catastrophe Living" by Jon Kabat-Zinn. It is a fat book, more than 700 pages, and I proceded to read some shorter books on the field. Eventually, I came back to the book and now have almost finished it.

The linked course is based on the materials and the MBSR programe developed by the author of the book, Jon Kabat-Zinn, but I see that the author of the course has found and included some excellent additional audio and video resources.

Articles like this one are coming up with similar questions from time to time. For better understanding of the origin of suspicious attitude to science in some social groups The Cultural Theory of Risk [1] is very helpful.

According to it "political conflict over environmental and technological risks to a struggle between adherents of competing ways of life associated with the group–grid scheme: an egalitarian, collectivist (“low grid”, “high group”) one, which gravitates toward fear of environmental disaster as a justification for restricting commercial behavior productive of inequality; and individualistic ("low group") and hierarchical ("high grid") ones, which resist claims of environmental risk in order to shield private orderings from interference, and to defend established commercial and governmental elites from subversive rebuke."

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Theory_of_risk

SEEKING WORK - Remote / Kaunas / Lithuania / Europe

Technologies: Python, Matlab, Racket, Java, PredictionIO, Apache Spark, Hadoop, SQL, Machine Learning, Data development.

Resume/CV: lt.linkedin.com/in/tomaskazemekas

Email: tomaskazemekas at gmail.com

Data software developer making custom analytic solutions for clients in finance, retail and other industries. Fucusing on analytic and predictive side of web applications. Can work on a project / contract / freelance basis.

Location: Kaunas, Lithuania

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, Matlab, Racket, Java, PredictionIO, Apache Spark, Hadoop, SQL, Machine Learning, Data development.

Resume/CV: lt.linkedin.com/in/tomaskazemekas

Email: tomaskazemekas at gmail.com

Data software developer making custom analytic solutions for clients in finance, retail and other industries. Fucusing on analytic and predictive side of web applications. Can work on a project / contract / freelance basis.

One possible concept could be meta-attention. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00221309.1982.971...