October 18, 2021

It was a slow week but here's what happened in Reddit's data community

🗯 This week

• This was a slow week. I took the opportunity to focus more on work and less on reading.

• Remember to check the most popular Reddit posts this week on data-related boards. 👇

👋 See you next time

Let’s keep in touch, Pedro.

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🔝 Most popular Reddit posts this week

r/DataScience

• Who has left data science and analytics? What are you up to now? (266 upvotes; 95 replies)
• How do you explain what you do for living? (225 upvotes; 192 replies)
• What’s up with the animosity towards mathematicians? (157 upvotes; 94 replies)
• What is the correct name for my job? (119 upvotes; 59 replies)
• Do companies use Tableau or PowerBI more? (106 upvotes; 88 replies)

r/DataEngineering

• Google Cloud Data Engineer Certification available for free for a month on Coursera (till Nov 6). (139 upvotes; 39 replies)
• changing your attitude (105 upvotes; 23 replies)
• Big community listen & learn summit coming up on 10/21 with Grubhub, Databricks, Snowflake, FOX Networks (66 upvotes; 8 replies)
• Feeling pretty lost. Need career advice. Not sure if I should still pursue Data Engineering or go down the Analyst route. (59 upvotes; 51 replies)
• Is it unethical to work as a DE for an unethical company? (52 upvotes; 97 replies)

r/MachineLearning

• [R] Resolution-robust Large Mask Inpainting with Fourier Convolutions (881 upvotes; 34 replies)
• [P] YoHa: A practical hand tracking engine. (313 upvotes; 26 replies)
• [D] What are some ideas that are hyped up in machine learning research but don’t actually get used in industry (and vice versa)? (253 upvotes; 204 replies)
• [R] Pairwise shape studies in 3D deep learning - Link to a free online lecture by the author in comments (226 upvotes; 1 replies)
• [R] StyleGAN3: Alias-Free Generative Adversarial Networks (175 upvotes; 42 replies)

r/LearnMachineLearning

• Reality! What’s your thought about this? (1145 upvotes; 62 replies)
• Deep Reinforcement Learning Neural Network (343 upvotes; 6 replies)
• I am also getting a lot of rejections. I have been applying for full-time/internships in EE, SW, and MLE positions. (305 upvotes; 155 replies)
• The mathematics you need for machine learning (289 upvotes; 16 replies)
• How do people come up with this stuff? (168 upvotes; 28 replies)

r/AskStatistics

• Can someone help me understand how the highlighted conclusion can be found in the linear model output? (19 upvotes; 19 replies)
• Why gaussian is used in maximum likelihood calculation (10 upvotes; 9 replies)
• Help me understand why confidence interval is not probability (11 upvotes; 17 replies)
• Logistical regression with categorical dependant and independent variables? (6 upvotes; 2 replies)
• I need help with my multilevel model specification in R. (repeated measures) (nlme package) (6 upvotes; 1 replies)

r/LatestInML

• Prepare for your mind to be blown: Imagine a high definition video, you never shot, that was artificially created from just a few pictures you took - and yes, video contains new angles you never even shot from! 🤯📷🤖📽️ (65 upvotes; 4 replies)
• 🤯🖼️Remove any object or person in an image easily using this AI model! (15 upvotes; 2 replies)
• 🤯Ultra-realistic Augmented Reality - now this AI model can account for different lighting conditions! (15 upvotes; 0 replies)
• Machine Learning Types (15 upvotes; 1 replies)
• Math for Deep Learning ebook (13 upvotes; 0 replies)

r/MLQuestions

• Are algorithms like SVM decision trees still in use in the industry? (17 upvotes; 12 replies)
• Cross-entropy/Maximum Likelihood loss function understanding (8 upvotes; 4 replies)
• Pytorch tutorial for beginners (10 upvotes; 2 replies)
• How important is publications when applying for ML researcher jobs? [D] (5 upvotes; 7 replies)
• How to get into ML research as an unpaid research assistant as a beginner? (4 upvotes; 12 replies)