Fail More

Fail more! Failing is very very good. For Five-Minute Friday this week, I elaborate on why.

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Does Caffeine Hurt Productivity? (Part 3: Scientific Literature)

For Five-Minute Friday yesterworkday, I concluded my three-part series on whether caffeine disrupts productivity by broadening from the experiment I ran on myself to the academic literature on the topic.

My Jupyter notebook of data and analysis of the caffeine vs productivity experiment I ran on myself is here.

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Does Caffeine Hurt Productivity? (Part 1)

For Five-Minute Friday this week, I lay out my hypothesis that caffeine decreases people's capacity to focus deeply on work. Next week, we'll review the results of the months-long coffee experiment I ran on myself!

(If you can't wait to see the experiment results, you can head to jonkrohn.com/coffee to check them out.)

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Deep Reinforcement Learning

Five-Minute Friday today is an intro to (deep) reinforcement learning, which has diverse cutting-edge applications: E.g., machines defeating humans at complex strategic games and robotic hands solving Rubik’s cubes.

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Building Your Ant Hill

Five-Minute Friday today features my 91-year-old grandmother sharing her insightful life philosophy that centers around an analogy of ants building ant hills.

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Supervised vs Unsupervised Learning

Five-Minute Friday this week is a high-level intro to the two largest categories of Machine Learning approaches: Supervised Learning and Unsupervised Learning.

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Classification vs Regression

Five-Minute Friday this week is a high-level introduction to Classification and Regression problems — two of the main categories of problems tackled by Machine Learning algorithms.

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Managing Imposter Syndrome

The Five-Minute Friday episode this week is on Imposter Syndrome, including what it is and how to manage it.

Thanks to Nikolay for the episode idea and Micayla for doing most of my homework for it!

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Yoga Nidra

Episode 500 of the SuperDataScience podcast is live today! For this special occasion, world-class yogi Jes Allen guides us through a full, deep session of Yoga Nidra — a centering and transformative meditation-like experience.

I'm so excited to share this practice with you and can't wait to hear what you think of it! Thank you to all of you listeners — as well as of course SuperDataScience founder / 400-plus-episode-host Kirill Eremenko — for bringing this podcast to where it is today. And none of this would be possible without the hundreds of inspiring guests we've had over the years, the indefatigable show manager Ivana, and the awesome production team: Mario, Jaime, and JP.

I am honored and grateful to be able to serve all of you and walk alongside you in your data-science career journey. Keep on rockin'! 🎸

You can listen to or watch the episode here.

A Brain-Computer Interface Story

For Five-Minute Friday this week, I tried something different: I wrote a short sci-fi story! Let me know if you liked it or hated it and, based on your feedback, I'll either do more of it or consider never doing it again :)

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How to Instantly Appreciate Being Alive

In today's always-connected world, it's easy to get caught up in thought after thought after thought. For Five-Minute Friday this week, here's a trick to jolt yourself into the present and bask in the simple appreciation of being alive.

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The World is Awful (and it’s Never Been Better)

Feel like the world is kinda poopy? Well, it is! BUT, covid pandemic not withstanding, it's also WAY better than ever before. I articulate this idea with data and charts for this week's Five-Minute Friday episode.

Thanks to Benjamin Todd for pointing me in the direction of a blog post by Max Roser (founder of Our World in Data) that formed the basis of this podcast episode.

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Say No to Pie Charts

Public Service Announcement for this week's Five-Minute Friday: Don't use pie charts! (Nor, in almost all circumstances, ANY circular chart!)

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The Price of Your Attention

Time is money. Every second of your life is yours to use and one of the options you have is to generate income. You can do this hourly, or, as a data scientist, invest time in a digitally-sharable product with a huge potential ROI.

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The History of Calculus

Y'all seem to love these "History of..." episodes, so for Five-Minute Friday this week, here's another one. It's on the History of Calculus! Enjoy 😄

(Leibniz and Newton, who independently devised modern calculus around the same time, are pictured.)

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Top Resume Tips

In recent weeks, I've received several messages from folks struggling to get callbacks for Data Scientist interviews. In reviewing their résumés, I realized there are five specific tips that I highly recommend adhering to.

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