Hi, I'm a good senior backend developer with data science experience but [at least hope/think that I] am an excellent team lead and director.
My magic skills are a) creating high-performance development, research, and data science teams and organizations and b) squeezing water out of rocks.
Much of my career has involved doing just this. I like working with high performers and, on occasions when I've had to work with low performing teams, can usually turn them around. For reference, I've sometimes served in SCRUM master and PO positions. Devs generally like this since I tend to understand teammates' struggles and the work itself.
I'm just starting to look for new opportunities and would like to be approached in a relaxed way.
-----
Location: Utrecht/Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Remote: Yes, hybrid or in-person are also OK
Willing to relocate: No, but willing to travel frequently to Boston, MA, USA and throughout Europe.
It’s surprising to me that no one has mentioned llamaparse. My team has been using it for a while and is quite satisfied. If other people think that other services are better then I’d be interested in hearing why.
I’m curious about this api. I’d looked at it before but it didn’t seem like it could handle arbitrary input that didn’t fit one of the predefined schemas. I also wasn’t sure how much training data it needed. What has your experience been like?
There is a financial concept known as universal ownership. The gist of it is that most investors are more affected by the overall returns of the market than by the returns of individual stocks. As a result, rational investors should sometimes vote against their individual holdings’ short term interests in favor of the long-term interest of the economy. Limiting antibiotics for livestock is one of these. Not feeding cows chicken would seem to be another obvious one.
Unfortunately, many financial institutions have been slow to pick this up and may soon have an opportunity to learn about the consequences.
I work in the, "green movement." Since this movement is almost entirely volunteer driven, it is not typically well positioned to coordinate actions or balance tradeoffs. For example, the people working on banning plastic bags are typically concerned about bags stuck in trees and rivers or preventing soil permeability, not carbon emissions.
If one were to ask plastic straw or bag ban volunteers to go work on something else, they just... wouldn't. This would be different with employees but with volunteers there are rarely significant tradeoffs to consider.
A search engine would show that there this movement is not ignoring private jets. [1]
Lastly, perhaps this is not true of the parent commenter, but a last thing I'll note is that many people seem to believe that the, "green movement," is somehow powerful or well financed. This could not be farther from the truth.
The money most environmental orgs brings in from donations is dwarfed by what those same donors pay for gasoline, red meat, and other environmentally harmful products. Some percentage of these purchases is then funneled to fighting the causes that they just donated to. (Dear child commenters, I'm not shaming you for eating meat or buying gas. I also live in a society...)
That’s the, "green movement." We're out-gunned, under-financed, and, due to those constraints, almost impossible to coordinate. I personally am currently struggling to figure out how to afford per-seat pricing of password managers for my team of 5-10 hr/week volunteers. THAT is the level of shoestring budget that this movement is on.
Perhaps it’s counter-intuitive, but if you’d like to see a more coordinated environmental movement capable of weighing tradeoffs and focusing on big issues over plastic straw bans, I’d suggest donating, not just once, but repeatedly. Otherwise, the fundamental dynamics of volunteer based orgs just won’t change.
My magic skills are a) creating high-performance development, research, and data science teams and organizations and b) squeezing water out of rocks.
Much of my career has involved doing just this. I like working with high performers and, on occasions when I've had to work with low performing teams, can usually turn them around. For reference, I've sometimes served in SCRUM master and PO positions. Devs generally like this since I tend to understand teammates' struggles and the work itself.
I'm just starting to look for new opportunities and would like to be approached in a relaxed way.
-----
Location: Utrecht/Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Remote: Yes, hybrid or in-person are also OK
Willing to relocate: No, but willing to travel frequently to Boston, MA, USA and throughout Europe.
Technologies: Python, Django, Clojure, Streamlit, SQL, Llamaparse, SKLearn
Resume/CV: https://albertrcarter.com/pages/resume/
Email: [email protected]