Summary: <div> <div>Guest:</div> <div> <div><a target="_blank" href="http://evelinag.com/">Evelina Gabasova</a></div> <div><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/evelgab">@evelgab</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="podcast-episode"> <div class="subtitle">Evelina Gabasova talks with Dave Rael about data science, making progress to find motivation, and the enormous rewards and benefits of teaching</div> <div class="podcast-summary"> <p>Evelina Gabasova is a machine learning researcher working in bioinformatics at Cambridge University. At the moment, she’s trying to reverse-engineer genomic mechanisms behind pancreatic cancer. Although she spends her time with biologists, she is mainly a programmer with machine learning background. Outside of academia, she speaks at developer conferences and user groups, mainly about using F# for data science.</p> </div> <div class="podcast-chapters"> <h6>Chapters:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="#!"> - Dave introduces the show and Evelina Gabasova</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Evelina and programming languages</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Evelina's path to getting into artificial intelligence</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Evelina's definition of value</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The cadence of delivery in Evelina's scientific data projects</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - How Evelina got started in software</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Evelina and mathematics and the way math is taught</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The things that "light Evelina up"</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Evelina's story of failure - the difficulty in finding motivation; the daunting task of the PhD thesis</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Evelina's PhD thesis</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Evelina's story of success - blogging and public speaking - teaching and learning</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - How Evelina stays current with what she needs to know</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The things about which Evelina is most excited</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The greatest sources of pain in Evelina's life and work</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The things about which Evelina likes to geek apart from software</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Evelina's prediction for the future of software</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Evelina's top 3 tips for delivering more value</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Keeping up with Evelina</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-resources"> <h6>Resources:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="http://evelinag.com/" target="_blank">Evelina's Blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://evelinag.com/blog/2015/12-15-star-wars-social-network/index.html" target="_blank">The Star Wars social network</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.meetup.com/FSharpLondon/" target="_blank">F#unctional Londoners Meetup Group</a></li> <li><a href="http://developeronfire.com/Podcast/Episodes/linda-rising-lit-up-on-life-and-still-rocking" target="_blank">Linda Rising on Developer On Fire</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0345472322/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">Mindset: The New Psychology of Success - Carol Dweck</a></li> </ul> <h6>Evelina's top 3 tips for delivering more value:</h6> <ol> <li>Keep learning</li> <li>Start small and work incrementally</li> <li>Teach things</li> </ol> </div> </div>
