Dmitry Smirnov

Data engineering, science and software enthusiast. Cognitive neuroscience PhD candidate @AaltoUniversity

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@eglerean @JamesKilner @AaltoUniversity @abc_aalto Enrico, this is amazing and I love that I have an opportunity to reflect on all that was said! Thank you :)

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Psychologist, working as a data engineer in a startup #unqualifiedfortech

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Five minute intuition: ‘Steven Strogatz on Teaching Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues’ on #SoundCloud #np https://t.co/iiIlEc2ZeW

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“A Conceptual Introduction to Hamiltonian Monte Carlo” https://t.co/stJCRVPmop

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Please stop telling people to respect others' opinions. That's for things like "I don't like coffee" not for "I don't like black people."

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Learning react: spent 30 minutes to hack a simplified markdown previewer: https://t.co/M2r1K52tsK

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Especially like the ending part, explaining why: https://t.co/bT3sNXttLc

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Love data science

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Most productive exception handler ever

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Of course, @michaelwaskom should be thanked for doing his part

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4/4 Yet so many tools are still missing (e.g. sklearn and good plotting libs).

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3/4 Python now feels somewhat awkward without type safety, pattern matching and easy-to-use collection operators (map, filter, folds).

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2/4 Decision to use Scala was spot on! I learned a lot about programming in general from Scala, became better in other languages as well.

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1/4 When I decided to learn Spark, I spent long time deciding between Python (which I know) and Scala (which I never touched before).

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Some thoughts about month of playing with #scala and #Spark

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Challenged myself to solve https://t.co/3RjlbYqdMb, to make it worse, decided to do it in Scala: https://t.co/BqmMthXxnO #adventofcode

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Made a typo: shitogram instead of histogram, Friday here I come!