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kingant··on Ask HN: I lack Motivation. What should I do?
Become a PM (product/project manager) at your company if you can. Less stressful.
kingant··on Ask HN: Which books have made you a better thinker and problem solver?
Sure for mathematical problem solving skills, here is a good one: http://people.csail.mit.edu/moitra/854.html.

It requires minimal mathematical background (undergraduate level discrete math). But you will learn a bunch of relevant algorithmic concepts. And the problem sets are hard!

kingant··on Ask HN: Which books have made you a better thinker and problem solver?
Bit of a generic answer.

Doing the problem sets from a good university course.

Some problems might take you hours to solve, but it will develop your stamina for thinking hard.

kingant··on Goodbye, data science
Data scientist actually cook up and run the statistical/ML models on data and write reports about their "findings".

However, the data that data scientists want to use is often messy and comes from varied sources. Hence, data engineers do supporting infra work like cleaning/loading data from different databases, etc.

kingant··on Generative AI: A Creative New World
Generative AI is not limited to image generation. For instance, GitHub CoPilot is generative AI.
kingant··on Ask HN: What made programming finally click for you?
Pair programming with better programmers than me.
kingant··on Ask HN: Great Single Person Businesses?
Stratechery by Ben Thompson: https://stratechery.com/
kingant··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2022)
SEEKING WORK | USA | REMOTE

robot tree labs (robottreelabs.com) is a consulting firm focused on AI and robotics. We are actively seeking clients.

Our skills include:

1. Implementing machine and deep learning algorithms (including computer vision, NLP, and reinforcement learning)

2. Implementing robotic systems with ROS

3. Implementing controls and filters for complex dynamic systems.

Languages: Python/C++

Contact: business@robottreelabs.com

kingant··on Ask HN: Share your personal site
https://akilesh.net/about.html
kingant··on The Future of Work Is a 60-Year Career
With remote work and the metaverse, not sure if where you are born matters as much.
kingant··on Ask HN: What was your earliest “programming” memory?
Learning Java about 10 years ago from this Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/thenewboston/featured
kingant··on Anxiety is in your body, not your mind
Did you try medication?
kingant··on The race to teach sign language to computers
Check out this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10546 (not mine)...but links to some recent work using deep learning.