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Prompt Engineer — The Most Overhyped Job of the Decade

And why everyone should nevertheless be familiar with writing AI prompts.

5 min readJun 4, 2023

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Prompt Engineer — The Most Overhyped Job of the Decade

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Thomas Baumgartner

Data Pseudo-Science: Selling Garbage to Data Illiterates

The dark side of data science no one talks about.

9 min readFeb 25, 2023

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Data Pseudo-Science: Selling Garbage to Data Illiterates

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Towards Data Science

Solve Problems Like a Physicist

A step-by-step guide applicable to data science and many other fields.

11 min readNov 7, 2022

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Solve Problems Like a Physicist

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CodeX

Python’s Context Managers Explained with Two Instructive Examples

All you need to know about the magic methods and the @contextmanager decorator.

7 min readSep 3, 2022

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Python’s Context Managers Explained with Two Instructive Examples

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CodeX

How to Get Data from an SQL Database into pandas via SSH

Use Python to set up a secure connection to a remote database server and get query results as pandas data frames.

4 min readJun 29, 2022

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How to Get Data from an SQL Database into pandas via SSH

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Thomas Baumgartner

You Got Your University Degree. Now What?

Should you pursue an academic career or get a job in the scary world outside of the ivory tower?

7 min readMay 22, 2022

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You Got Your University Degree. Now What?

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Thomas Baumgartner

Pseudo-Science: How to See Through It

Medium is no safe haven of wisdom. Make sure you don’t fall for pseudo-scientific nonsense.

4 min readMay 14, 2022

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Pseudo-Science: How to See Through It

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Thomas Baumgartner

Dear HR People, Please Get Your LinkedIn Act Together

Three mistakes that will scare away potential high-quality employees.

4 min readMay 1, 2022

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Dear HR People, Please Get Your LinkedIn Act Together

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Thomas Baumgartner

Dear Writers, Please Cut the Crap

10 types of articles nobody needs — avoid these patterns if you care about your reputation.

5 min readFeb 27, 2022

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Dear Writers, Please Cut the Crap

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Towards Data Science

Long Callbacks in Dash Web Apps

How to deal with time-consuming code in callback functions of Python Dash web applications.

7 min readJan 11, 2022

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Thomas Baumgartner

Thomas Baumgartner

Physicist (PhD), engineer, software developer, data manager / analysist, photographer, musician, and (as of late) writer. Lives in Vienna, Austria.

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