Currently working on:
Completing / writing up / deploying the boulder recommender that I started while taking Stanford CS224U, online lectures (from my cohort!) + github
Stanford CS236; next: Stanford CS230; immunology course? The lectures are typically lightweight enough to watch while exercising
NaNoWriMo if only to get my time travel story down as a short story or novella
another half marathon in a race or unofficially looping Stanley park, aiming to break 1:45 (last time managed 1:49 but that was with a lot of downhill! Just beating that time on flat would be great. In fact, that race still has my fastest 5km effort according to Strava: I should beat that too!)
Workwise:
Still at Tableau. In early 2023, when all the layoffs happened, we lost our ML manager and the ML team was dissolved and moved to Salesforce. I was on the Einstein Discovery team for a few months when they realized they had no ML expertise left in Tableau and I was brought back. I’ve since helped bring back 2 more of the original team and hired another 3 ML people to Tableau. Tableau even has a VP AI now!
We’re considered “tech flex” and required to come in 10 days a quarter (but that may go up?).
I had so much holiday I’m taking a week off every month Aug-Dec this year!
Techwise:
Switched the site to Quarto: so easy, so pretty, and <coming here soon> interactive vizzes!
After a year or 2-3(?) of Ubuntu desktop, I went back to Mac OS with a macbook air
~3 years ago, I tried an iPhone and did I ever regret it! While I like iOS on my iPad,on the phone it was dreadful (after android) and the photos weren’t even that good. I promptly replaced it with a Sony that takes much better photos
Now using VS Code (since I work in more than just Python).
Tried the Arc browser and want to like it… Was a Firefox devotee but recently switching to Brave because of the built in ad blocking that works in iOS (for watching lectures in youtube on my ipad without interrupting ads while sweating on the elliptical / peloton).