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Published

November 5, 2025

This is my now page.

New course: Test driven development for data scientists

Why? Because many folks in data science have not been exposed to good product development practices (XP + BDD). The 1st iteration is done (trialed on a small class with 4 people). Feedback is good, but day 2 needs some improvements (API testing, mocking). Add material from Allen Downey books and courses.

Establishing weekly routine

  1. Weekly plan. Monday morning: make a plan for upcoming week. Friday afternoon: review the week.
  2. Daily morning mental exercises for 30min. Learn a new language, flashcard, brilliant.org, …
  3. Start “self-reflection journal” using We are not really strangers cards (1 hour/week).
  4. Add/update my digital garden (1 hour/week).

Learning

  1. Build a Large Language Model
  2. Full Stack LLM Bootcamp

Reading

  1. Tiny Experiments by Anne-Laure Le Cunff