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This post contains a bunch of links to blogs that write about productivity.

Constance Crozier (@clcrozier on Twitter) shared an interesting simulation in which she tried to fit a sigmoid curve (s-curve) to predict a plateau in a time-series. The result was a very intuitive and convincing animation that shows how wrong her initial forecasts were.

My job wasn’t affected by the COVID madness in almost any way. I used to work from home before, and I work from home now, none on my customers cancelled any projects, the health system in Israel is still functioning, all of my relatives are in good health, everything is just fine! I know how unusual I am in the current world, with the skyrocketing unemployment, non-functioning governments, and three-digit body counts. I was about to write about that, but then I read AnnMaria’s post.

Being a data science freelancer, and a long-time AnnMaria’s fan, I HAVE to repost here latest post on consulting success

If you read my shortish post about staying employable as a data scientist, you might like a longer post by a colleague, Yanir Seroussi. In his post, Yanir lists four possible paths for a data scientist: (1) become an engineer; (2) reinvent the wheel; (3) search for niches; and (4) expand the cutting edge.

I stumbled upon a very detailed and useful summary of a recent conference on empirical methods in natural language processing. I have to say, Michael Galkin, the author of this review, did an excellent job. His blog, https://medium.com/@mgalkin, is worth following.

On Sunday, I wrote about bootstrapping. On Monday, I wrote about visualization uncertainty. Let’s now talk about bootstrapping and uncertainty visualization.

What will happen if number 6 disappears one day? Ben Orlin, the author of “Math with bad drawings” elaborates on this interesting thought experiment in this 2017 post.