Hi. Came here via Overcoming Bias. I’ve been reading for a long time but I haven’t made the effort to go through the sequences. (On that note, is the essence of the “Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions” sequence that if you don’t have a better predictive model at the finish than at the start, the answer is meaningless?)
I’m almost certainly moving to Germany to do an Economics Masters shortly but I’m interested in learning to programme because it seems like a productive skill in a way that Economics mostly isn’t (Econometrics and to a lesser extent Microeconomics excepted).
So. I think that it would be possible to combine my studies with programming and Machine Learning and Statitics in a not-totally-insane way. Any tips on that would be great, as would the opportunity to talk, chat or otherwise communicate with someone in Germany, native or expat.
Yeah, after my total lack of success in my exams study is no longer really an option, but I was considering Berufsakademie in WI. My German probably isn’t good enough to get an Ausbildungsplatz though, and it’s really badly paid. I’m leaning to teaching English at the moment and hoping to move into translation later.
Hi. Came here via Overcoming Bias. I’ve been reading for a long time but I haven’t made the effort to go through the sequences. (On that note, is the essence of the “Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions” sequence that if you don’t have a better predictive model at the finish than at the start, the answer is meaningless?)
I’m almost certainly moving to Germany to do an Economics Masters shortly but I’m interested in learning to programme because it seems like a productive skill in a way that Economics mostly isn’t (Econometrics and to a lesser extent Microeconomics excepted).
So. I think that it would be possible to combine my studies with programming and Machine Learning and Statitics in a not-totally-insane way. Any tips on that would be great, as would the opportunity to talk, chat or otherwise communicate with someone in Germany, native or expat.
Did you know there is a degree program called Wirtschaftsinformatik (Business Informatics) in Germany?
Yeah, after my total lack of success in my exams study is no longer really an option, but I was considering Berufsakademie in WI. My German probably isn’t good enough to get an Ausbildungsplatz though, and it’s really badly paid. I’m leaning to teaching English at the moment and hoping to move into translation later.