Jodi Blomberg

Data scientist. Mother of three small people. Love riding my bikes, telemark skiing, running, yoga, crafty things, and eating cookies.

[Jodi Blomberg @jablomberg]

@JKDJane If you have Premier Access by chance on your boarding pass, get out of that line and go straight or North or South and head into the very short premier access line. You may have to take your shoes off but you won’t be in line for an hour.

[Jodi Blomberg @jablomberg]

@zekejwilliams Wait…do some people’s cats not like skiing?

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

There is a God.

[😡fermion, PhD @angryfermion]

linear algebra isn't actually real. it was invented by mathematicians in 1925 to sell more eigenvalues

[Jodi Blomberg @jablomberg]

Quick lunchtime ride today. Why? My new #ibis bike told me too.

[Jodi Blomberg @jablomberg]

My husband has been up to all good!(but also glad for trial widow stint to be over..)

[The Denver Post @denverpost]

JUST IN: A jury found that Denver police officers violated protesters’ rights during the massive 2020 demonstrations against police brutality and awarded 12 protesters a total of $14 million in compensation after a three-week trial. https://t.co/tLg2AW2JVI

[Jodi Blomberg @jablomberg]

Pretty much.

[Demetri (is over at the other place too) @PhDemetri]

Data science to large tech: stats

Data science to medium sized tech: ML is sexy, can you do that?

Data science to small tech: We really just need a dashboard and someone to translate our business qns to SQL

Data science to large non-tech orgs: DO. FUCKING. MAGIC, NUMBERS MAN

[Jodi Blomberg @jablomberg]

Even though there are a thousand things I do not miss about toddlers, I miss being able to fix things with bandaids and kisses.

[Jodi Blomberg @jablomberg]

@glynnwashington

[Jodi Blomberg @jablomberg]

@beeonaposy @seanmylaw @LittleMissData Most likely to experience deep self loathing at having to say “directionally correct” out loud

[Jodi Blomberg @jablomberg]

Sometimes, Twitter makes you smarter. Excellent thread. #MachineLearning

[Misha Laskin @MishaLaskin]

Patch extraction is a fundamental operation in deep learning, especially for computer vision.

By the end of this thread, you’ll know how to implement an efficient vectorized patch extractor (no for loops) in a few lines of code and learn about memory allocation in numpy.

1/n

[Jodi Blomberg @jablomberg]

Sure you have mistletoe, but do you have a “missile toad”? #quarantinelife

[Jodi Blomberg @jablomberg]

@bertil_hatt @PhDemetri I always want a confusion matrix. So we’re all clear on what we were trying to predict (or not)

[Jodi Blomberg @jablomberg]

Do you have good neighbors or did no one bring you a six pack, presents for your kids and vitamin C while covid cancels plans and races through your family?

[Jodi Blomberg @jablomberg]

@abiylfoyp Curiosity is my go-to skill for DS. With the assumption that coding is a given (if you are any kind of coder , debugging part of the gig)

[Jodi Blomberg @jablomberg]

@hmason If the model is of a batch/monthly flavor and important but non-critical….sure. Spend your limited engineering resources on the critical models or ones that need to be optimized for scale/speed.

[Jodi Blomberg @jablomberg]

Truth. I often test simple explanations on my kids. If they get it, then I got it.

[Bindu Reddy @bindureddy]

The easiest way to test if you truly understand a complex machine or deep learning concept

Explain it to a non ML person without using any jargon.

If they understand it, you understand it

[Jodi Blomberg @jablomberg]

@sandy_carter I was hoping for better ideas than I’ve used. Our rules were- build in silences, use the “raise hand” button liberally if you’re remote so people know you have something to add, no moving to next agenda item without asking remote remote folks for their input.

[Jodi Blomberg @jablomberg]

@bearloga Can you make this model more accurate but also include my pet theory of what I expected the data to say?

[Jodi Blomberg @jablomberg]

@zekejwilliams These people have clearly not watched the Jurassic park movies.