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r y x, r
Personal blog · ryxcommar.comdatacareerprogramming
r y x, r's personal blog at ryxcommar.com covers data, career and programming. Since 2019, 32 different Hacker News readers have linked it 33 times, most often “Goodbye Data Science”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
the only blog on the internet robust to heteroskedastic errors
Most-linked posts?
- Goodbye Data Science8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2022-11-28
- Zillow, Prophet, time series, and prices4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-11-06
- You Hate Matplotlib (2020)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-11-29
- Why does getting a job in tech suck?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-23
- On moving from statistics to machine learning, the final stage of grief (2019)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-11-01
What Hacker News says?
No, the rumor was just that they put their thumb on the scale. https://ryxcommar.com/2021/11/06/zillow-prophet-time-series-... "Speaking of middle managers, word on the street is that Zillow Offers put their thumb on the scale of the algorithm to make it engage in more aggressive trades. Manually adjusting an algorithm isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but you need to do it for the right reasons. And clearly that didn’…
Comment linking /2021/11/06/zillow-prophet-time-series-and-prices/
on “Zillow lost money because they weren't willing to lose money”Submitted Zillow, Prophet, time series, and prices as a story · 213 points
HN discussion"Finding a job now is harder than any time since the pandemic" - https://www.marketwatch.com/story/finding-a-job-now-is-harde... "IT job market is still shrinking" - https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/15/it_job_market/ "Why does getting a job in tech suck right now?" - https://ryxcommar.com/2024/08/17/why-does-getting-a-job-in-t...
Comment linking /2024/08/17/why-does-getting-a-job-in-tech-suck-right-now-is-it-ai/
on “Didn't realize it was this bad”Submitted On moving from statistics to machine learning, the final stage of grief (2019) as a story · 175 points
HN discussionReminds me of "Goodbye, Data Science" from a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33787270 The main reason I soured on data science is that the work felt like it didn’t matter, in multiple senses of the words “didn’t matter”: https://ryxcommar.com/2022/11/27/goodbye-data-science/ For part of my career over 10 years ago, I worked in data science for big tech, and I can definitely see the hazards ... I…
Comment linking /2022/11/27/goodbye-data-science/
on “Most Data Work Seems Fundamentally Worthless”Submitted Scikit-Learn’s Defaults Are Wrong as a story · 78 points
HN discussionThe problem with matplotlib has never been its capability. I consider its rendering backend and resulting image quality to be top-notch, and there are a billion options for you to customize. That second part is the biggest problem with matplotlib: the imperative API cloned from Matlab is just terrible. The vast majority of matplotlib examples are rife with global states and overriding behavior (ever have to set font…
Comment linking /2020/04/11/why-you-hate-matplotlib/
on “Python Chart Examples”Submitted Why does getting a job in tech suck? as a story · 66 points
HN discussionAn interesting essay that echoes these same sentiments: https://ryxcommar.com/2022/11/27/goodbye-data-science/
Comment linking /2022/11/27/goodbye-data-science/
on “Big Data Is Dead”Submitted Caveats and Limitations of A/B Testing at Growth Tech Companies as a story · 23 points
HN discussionI used Prophet and personally I do not have any problems, but I agree with the criticism that the tool it’s extremely focused in ergonomics that abstracts important aspects of the tool that can be used to built better models [1]. [1] - https://ryxcommar.com/2021/11/06/zillow-prophet-time-series-...
Comment linking /2021/11/06/zillow-prophet-time-series-and-prices/
on “Facebook Prophet: library for generating forecasts from any time series data”Submitted Zillow, Prophet, time series, and prices as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Retrospective on “On Moving from Statistics to Machine Learning” as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted You Hate Matplotlib (2020) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Advent of Code 2021 in Google Sheets: First 4 Days as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scikit-Learn’s Defaults Are Wrong as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Cool SQL Problem (and Why It Is Also a Bullshit SQL Problem) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Goodbye Data Science as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Goodbye, Data Science as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Goodbye, Data Science as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Being an Interviewer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bitcoin Machine Learning as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Moving from Statistics to Machine Learning as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scikit-Learn’s Defaults Are Wrong as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Intuitive Explanation of Arithmetic, Geometric, & Harmonic Mean as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Should you ask data scientists a tricky maths question? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why You Hate Matplotlib as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted You Hate Matplotlib as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Goodbye, Data Science as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Goodbye, Data Science as a story · 1 points
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