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Logan Thorneloe's avatar

I was just thinking about this last night because I’ve found I take an engineering mindset for everything I do. It’s not great for raising kids 🤣

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Alejandro Piad Morffis's avatar

As a computer scientist with a bias towards seeing algorithms everywhere (which is not necessarily a god thing) this resonated with me a lot.

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Christoph Molnar's avatar

We need to be aware of our biases at the same time. You know, like a profiler or debugger 😂

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Alejandro Piad Morffis's avatar

Haha just know I was arguing with someone because in my country there's no standard norm for some thing, and my argument was "well just inherit from EuropeanNorm and overwrite what's needed!"

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Diabb Zegpi's avatar

If you are a data scientist, what do you answer to the question of “What do you do for a living”? I found it complicated as people get bored or dissapointed as I talk about data or statistics. Any tips to sound interesting?

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Christoph Molnar's avatar

Good question. Whenever I worked on something domain-specific, I focused my explanation on this. For example, I answered that "I analyze data from patients with rheumatic diseases" was my explanation at one point in time.

I general, saying "analyzing data" seems to pass as an explanation for many people, but it didn't spark much excitement 😅

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