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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

First vacation in over two years when I left my work laptop at home. What could go wrong? 🤣

doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

It's been a couple of weeks back to back when I'm trying to explain to people that having a PhD doesn't magically transform bad data into insights. If you haven't done your due diligence at design stage and collected garbage in lieu of experimental data, no suffixes can come to rescue.

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Got Graspop 2025 tickets yesterday! Still need to figure out travel arrangements, but am super excited to make another trip to Belgium.

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Beautiful day in Killington for Stifel World Cup!!! #GrandSlalom #Skiing

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Black Friday is one of the busiest times in my company. Not a single issue from my team's pipelines came up or any alerts fired up to get anyone on call. I'm so proud of all the hard work my team's been doing and feels so good to see its results!

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

People often confuse alarmism with progress. You don't build a data product with endless strings of last minute all nighters. You build it through failing fast, iteration, and a clear vision.

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

MNTN CEO Mark Douglas and CCO Ryan Reynolds are on the cover of INC this month! Well deserved! The article also talks quite a bit about MNTN Matched and Keywords targeting that I spent most of my past 14 months or so leading the 0->1 and GTM efforts in engineering. So cool! trib.al/2MnMrVd

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How MNTN Is Bringing Hollywood Creativity to Small Business

With MNTN, Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds and tech guru Mark Douglas pair innovative advertising technology with a hell of a lot of fun

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

That's what I hear! It'll be my first time seeing them so looking forward to it!

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Excited about seeing Pineapple Thief tonight and Zeal & Ardor tomorrow!

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Just digging through The Last Will and Testament. §1 rips! Sounds like the last years of Opeth remaking Ghost of Perdition. I'll take it.

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Also sounds about right...

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

There's still 40 days to go this year, but this seems about right.

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

That is when it all begins again which is the true iterative product development cycle of data science in real life.

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Once you deliver your solution to great success and everyone owes you one everyone now has confidence in you and learned from your example with the sureness that they can now implement your ways into theirs and be even faster next time.

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

That is the crucial moment to rise up to the occasion and deliver your value to build confidence with your stakeholders, which only is possible if you haven't been sitting on your hands while everyone was busy playing with shit on the wall.

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Too often it seems more business savvy to throw piles and piles of shit at the wall over a quarter instead of the sound data approach and for people to finally come ask for your way when they truly have burned your runway leaving you little leeway for your mistakes.

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

When you can throw shit at the wall in a week, your estimates that suggest your solution will take about a month or quarter often makes people think that you're too academic and slow.

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Next you deal with the velocity issues because often people confuse an iterative process with throwing shit at the wall. Yes throwing shit at the wall is very quick, much quicker than what you can offer.

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

And yes unlike a simple logic assumption that you hope works, a testable hypothesis can be validated.

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

In fact the reason they need your services is the code complex problem they're facing cannot be solved with some smart hack, but with a methodical and meaningful model that needs to be designed, developed, and validated.

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

They expect it should be just as quick as their failed attempt if not quicker through AI sorcery. So a lot of your valuable time is explaining to them you're not some omniscient superpower.

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Being a data scientist is weird because stakeholders assume they already know all the answers to be attainable by using their own simple logic, which often fails. They often come to you when all those fail and expect you to implement your wizardry to their solution to make it work this time.

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Iron Maiden and Slipknot at #GMM2025. Give me Heaven Shall Burn, Cult of Luna, Julie Christmas, and Cemetary Skyline in the bill and I'm so there!

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains.

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Any advice for a fun game that's optimized for PS5 Pro?

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I'm not familiar with them. What are they like?

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I kinda wish I hit skip instead of transfer from other consoles. I'll have fallen asleep by the time I start any games...

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Is it just me or is the DualSense controller that comes with PS5 Pro a little heavier than the one that comes with PS5?

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Say it with me, "Data products are built with data people!"

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I agree. It's misleading to make any takeaways from just a handful arbitrary accounts with high variance in their production numbers.

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Ie if there's more OON boosting while ever-decreasing left content it'll end up amplifying right content more resulting in further network effects.

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Could this also not be an artifact of X larger ecosystem with higher out of betwork recommendations during a time of changes with users not in favor of Elon Musk and his politics producing less in the platform and leaving?

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I had no idea this was in the works. Saw it in my local bookstore a couple of weeks ago & picked it up. About halfway in, and it's such an unexpected trip to go back to Southern Reach and really take additional time to explore. I didn't realize how much I'd appreciate this great surprise. Thanks!

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Familiarity with larger domain probably helps with leading from a technology/trends perspective, but might not be sufficient with local semantic data layer of the org.

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Even then they need to have very good skills assessing existing expertise to figure out how to balance their time between delegating vs understanding the local data domain.

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

This is one of the rather stranger debates. I go with using plotnine in Python while eating popcorn.

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

It's been a weird year where I probably listened to more albums than ever but nothing really sticks out so far. I'm really digging the new Gaerea these days though, which didn't even make it to @decibelmagazine.bsky.social top 40. Quite the oversight there.

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

This came out pretty early this year. After having to crunch my best of 2023 in late December, I've been taking better notes for my top albums this year, but strangely nothing immediately screams top or even top 5 yet... #metal

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

This is likely a sign of new sign ups producing at least one post on day one with a significant proportion, which is not a small feat and something Twitter really struggled with a couple years ago.

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I actually still consume internet through RSS feeds via Feedly and perhaps controversially think that news should be social(ized) not personal(ized), but I do like this idea and it would make this a great place.

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

That's all good as long as you can make all those changes be a part of the larger progress getting you closer to the vision.

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

That's easier said than done of course so a lot of it happens through auto-reflection as an individual, and as a team as you iterate and refine, so it's important to not get attached to any piece of code or feature and know everything might eventually get deprecated, refactored, or decommissioned.

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

There's always too much noise and too little signal so it's important to define a vision and bring it to fruition, but also to make sure you don't get tunnel vision because of it.

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I don't remember what I thought would be the key to success back when I started this, but I think my biggest learning is to make sure that we strike the right balance between long term and short term needs and how to balance the team's people and resources sustainably.

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I've been having a pretty busy year building out the AI function at MNTN Engineering. Building high performing ML, Data Science, and Experimentation teams in a company that's going through a hyper-growth, where the scale is constantly getting bigger has been a unique experience.

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I hear this place is much more popular these days, how's everyone doing?

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 31/03/2024

Unlike last year, Turkish elections didn't get any real interest or coverage in the West ahead of the polls. I suspect it'll get more attention now, can't wait to read all the parochial takes about to come.

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 23/03/2024

You've been murdered, who do you want to be on the case?

Detective Miller from Expanse wearing a hat and looking towards the right of the camera.

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 23/03/2024

I don't know how active I'll be in social media, but I think when I show up it'll be more to actively participate rather than passively consume so it'll likely be more pontificating and random posting than usual, but maybe that's OK.

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doğa @dogaker.bsky.social · 23/03/2024

Anyway it turns out despite the noise there's still good local news where I live beyond random paid instagram accounts and there's still decent movie reviews and tech blogs and curators of information beyond clickbait. That was fun to rediscover!

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