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Welcome Thread - v267

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Walter Santos • Mar 13

Hello,

I have a PhD on Astrophysics, finished in 2012. There were tools to analyse images or perform rudimentary data analysis back then, but some programming skills were already required.

In 2005, concepts like data science, machine learning and Python/R weren't the hot topics they are today.

So, for the analysis I wanted to perform (estimating distances to galaxies from their "colour" alone), I had to write, from scratch, a machine learning code in C++!

Following instructions from a robotics scientific article, I wrote a 'weighted kd-tree' code. Today, I'm a Python coder and data scientist. But I credit my current 'intuition' on these matters ever since that time! 🙂

Ben Halpern • Mar 13

Great to have you!

Rachel Fazio • Mar 15

Welcome welcome!

Paweł Ciosek • Mar 13

Hello! Great to have you here! 👏

Chris Jarvis • Mar 13

Hello and welcome to DEV!

Elizabeth • Mar 13

Hello, welcome to the community

003-Abhinandan • Mar 19

Hello, Welcome to the community !

Harsh Parekh • Mar 15

hola 👋

professorTee1 • Mar 17

whoa, i crave for this kind of versatile knowledge you have on science to be able to estimate distance between galaxies from their color,, that is really amazing

Kishan • Mar 13

Hello World,

This is Kishan here !
I am here to derive the best and fun part happening in the industry.
I am a beginner to JavaScript Development and want to learn and grasp as much as possible

Paweł Ciosek • Mar 13

Hello! Keep working! 🙏

Anita Olsen • Mar 13

Welcome to the community, Kishan!

Elizabeth • Mar 13

Hello Kishan, welcome to the community. Glad to have you here. There are lots of amazing articles here to help you on your Javascript journey, You should check them out

Paras 🧙‍♂️ • Mar 13

Hello !! I am Software engineer & Neo4j Certified Professional. I work on MERN Stack and recently exploring system design & diving deep into the backend.

I also try to share my knowledge on dev.to by writing useful blogs. If you get time, do checkout. Maybe you will find them helpful.

Also decided to write more blogs this year and share as much of my knowledge as possible.

Chris Jarvis • Mar 13

Welcome!

Paras 🧙‍♂️ • Mar 18

Thank you !!

Elizabeth • Mar 13

Hello, welcome to the community. I like your "Basics of Caching" article, it's beginner friendly.

Paras 🧙‍♂️ • Mar 13

Thank you !! It's good to know you liked it and it was helpful :)

thekadur • Mar 13 • Edited

Hello there!
I am a full stack enthusiast working for a software development company called Codemischief Software Solutions.

I am here to connect with like-minded people and learn through this positive community.

Lets connect -
[](linkedin.com/company/codemischief-io
[](linkedin.com/in/manish-kadur

))

Paweł Ciosek • Mar 13

Hello! 👋

Anita Olsen • Mar 13 • Edited

Hi, welcome to DEV! I hope you will like it here!

Sanju@Sanjeev • Mar 18

Hello

Ben Halpern • Mar 13

Welcome welcome welcome welcome!

Thanks for joining, please introduce yourself 😃

ricgene • Mar 18

Hi - I'm Richard Genet, I am getting going in AI with some friends. I just found you guys and I'm not even sure of what/who I have found - haha. I want to "play with" PDF to RAG for starters. I have many AI ideas. My background is in telecom automation and tools: as a developer, architect, and leader. Most recently using Python, cloud (GCP and BigQuery). I am leveraging this foundation to get into entrepreneurial ai. I also care about things like climate etc. I am looking forward to learning more about you all :-).

Yahaya Oyinkansola • Mar 13 • Edited

Hi everyone, I am oyinkansola, A front end developer building web applications with the React library and it's ecosystem. I came on dev.to to share my knowledge, and also learn from seasoned developers and newbies as well, dev.to is a great community to be in, Happy to be here!

You can connect with me on Twitter and LinkedIn

Elizabeth • Mar 13

Hello Oyinkansola, welcome to the community

David • Mar 15

Hello! 👋

harmanharry712 • Mar 18

Hey Yahaya, Welcome to the community. I love doing front-end stuff with the React libraries and Tailwind CSS.

Yahaya Oyinkansola • Mar 21

Thank you, nice to meet you too!

Thomas Bnt • Mar 13

Hello everybody! Welcome on DEV! 🥳🚀

Haru Blank • Mar 16

Hello :)
I am a struggling developer
I have some experience with front end coding with react. I am doing a practice project in remix + prisma. You're welcome if you wanna tag along <3
I want to start blogging and sharing what little I know
I will try my best

Chris MacDonald • Mar 13 • Edited

Hey folks, read a fair few articles but finally posted my first post here, its a repost of a blog I did on my own site some years ago but is still relevant today I hope! I’ve been a full stack software developer/engineer for 11 years and looking forward to posting more here.

I work predominately in microsoft stack (.NET, Azure, JS etc) in web applications for my current company SThree.

Fun fact - in my spare time I build Muppet replicas! Have posted my latest below.