Yea that's some dumb shit

oh man he doesn't even mention the cloud

Asking for a masters or phd in maths?

To work in the fucking govt?

the VERY limited amount of people with masters or PHDs in maths

will NOT be working in the govt

read the whole thing and related things he links - it's interesting

I already know that what he's asking for is dumb though

does anyone even know SQL

like 1 person right

i can write select-from-where statements to pull from multiple tables

but tahts about it

Well

SQL is hardly a hard language

he's a bit of a dreamer PEP - wouldn't you say it would be good if they were working in gov?

it's just a pain in the arse

i mean you seem to advocate for the educated making decisions

And for 99% of SQL needs there are gems/plugins/whatever

or shaping the country

that will dumb it down

Well crafty

It's just, I know a lot of extremely intelligent people

"Send a max 1 page letter plus CV to [redacted] and put in the subject line ‘job/’ and add after the / one of: data, developer, econ, comms, projects, research, policy, misfit."

that are in data or maths

hello yes I would like to apply for the position of misfit

But only a few of them have masters in maths etc, it's not particularly NEEDED

if you got A*s in maths, further maths, then first class in maths bachelors

The masters is kinda redundant, the work experience as a data scientist would be worth more

ok i see your point

than 1-2 years doing a masters in something you're already great at

yeah math master's degree aren't that common. it's more common to do math undergrad and then a masters in something more commercially viable

Yea

exactly

That as well

A lot of people do a bachelors in maths to show hey, I'm fucking good with numbers

And that will take them in software, engineering, physics

architecture

finance

anything really

Yea finance

Asking from PHD/Masters from the worlds best Uni's as well? lmao i hope he's preparing to offer them starting of 500k