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This word problem is making my brain do backflips. Based on the Twitter replies I’ve seen- I’m not alone. Halp.

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Prove you're a "real" data scientist in one sentence.

You're not a real data scientist if you're looking for more instruction here.

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What's the highest level of math you completed by the time you graduated high school? Or, if you're in high school, what's the highest level of math you're projected to complete by the time you graduate?

Just curious as I've seen a lot of people with varying ideas on how much math you're supposed to learn in high school (specifically if you're going into a math or science...

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What was the hardest maths course you took at uni/college?

Ezpz galois theory, went in having not studied the prerequisite so I'd literally never seen fields or rings before. So uh that was an experience I don't wanna repeat. Cam...

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Describe Data Science in Three Words

TMtr_news asked Jul 12

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[D] The current and future state of AI/ML is shockingly demoralizing with little hope of redemption

I recently encountered the PaLM (Scaling Language Modeling with Pathways) paper from Google Research and it opened up a can of worms of ideas I’ve felt I’ve intuitive...

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How would you say "if and only if" in your language?

I was speaking to a mathematician in Russian and said the words if and only if a couple of times, made me curious about what the phrase would be in other languages :)

_nicolabarr asked Jul 12

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Which podcasts are Data Scientists listening to, and why?

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Professional data scientists what are the algorithms and models that you actually end up using the most?

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Favourite mathematics course at university?

miriamnoguerasM asked Aug 3

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Guys, we’ve been doing it wrong this whole time

AnahitaSeda asked Jun 22

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Data Scientists who describe your work as "fun" or "interesting" - what hobbies/pastimes do you find fun?

I've been reading lots of posts as I'm looking into pursuing DS and have seen many describe their work as fun or stimulating or engaging. My question to those people is: ...

LexiLawson asked Sep 9

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Who is applying to all these data scientist jobs?

I see all these job postings on LinkedIn with 100+ applicants. I’m really skeptical that there are that many data science graduates out there. Is there really an avalan...

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Do you like to include 0 in the natural numbers or not?

This is something that bothers me a bit. Whenever you see \mathbb{N}, you have to go double check whether the author is including 0 or not. I'm largely on team include 0,...

hunasotak asked Sep 22

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What do you consider your strengths in mathematics?

TotalGhana asked Sep 4

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Who else was taught 1 was a Prime growing up?

So I was asked recently if 1 was a Prime number to which I responded "Yes of course it is" I asked why it was a question and the person who asked it said it came up in a ...

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What are some nice bits of math to show a 13 year old?

I'm not talking about any kind of actual educational program, but I want to show my 13 year old brother some small, self-contained, cool/curiosity-provoking pieces of mat...

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Quick Questions: September 07, 2022

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Share one fascinating thing you know in maths.

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