Cost of Switching from divergent tasks

Posted by Shan J. on June 29, 2019

Multitasking

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge. –Rutherford D. Roger

In the book elements of statistical learning, the author shared with us his experience in analyzing data, stating that statistician’s job is to make sense of it all: to extract important patterns and trends, and understand “what the data says.”

However, for a fresh green-hand who just enters the industry field, things can be challenging sometimes as we may never easily start from the cleaned, organized data.

When you are checking the messy data, it just implies welcome to the real world.

Everything from single details to the big picture of life are composed of learning problems that we consider can be roughly categorized as either supervised or unsupervised.

How individual does multi-tasking physically?

From the neuroscience studies, we know prefrontal cortex of the brain begins working anytime you need to pay attention.

Design working log

One thing I learned from Diana, is try to design the working log of myself. Sometimes, I feel that I have no me time left for myself or I feel exhausted