Alaka Halder
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Alaka Halder
@ahalder.bsky.social
Research + data science at Garner Health | Previously: Princeton Econ | Interests: healthcare, development econ, AI, art history

Website/Blog: https://www.alakahalder.xyz
Twitter: https://x.com/HalderAlaka
Looking forward to the Wed session on mental health (and your paper on seasonal allergies)
June 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
This is useful for analysts, researchers, and PMs who find git stressful and don’t want to keep pinging the on-call engineer or data scientist 😄

It's helped me avoid some recent headaches with some recent team version control interactions. Definitely recommend
June 21, 2025 at 2:47 AM
My standards are likely too high, but for that, I blame the hype 😝
June 7, 2025 at 10:24 AM
In defense of AI, I like the humble GPT 4 models. They're pretty useful for (1) quickly and cheaply extracting routine data from large, messy, diverse sources, (2) helping debug code when I'm tired, (3) roughly synthesizing LARGE logs and (4) catching typos
June 7, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Alternatively, they know very well that I can't afford to buy Renaissance and Baroque art

Do museums run ads? Maybe send me ads for museums I haven't visited?
March 22, 2025 at 7:41 PM
What approaches have worked well, what hasn't, what do you plan to try next?
March 15, 2025 at 7:40 PM
You saved time, money, and effort. Your team is now free to focus on something that matters (or chase down the next shiny new thing!)

I’ve never seen this kind of “failed” discovery work celebrated or highlighted as a “win” on a resume.

Have you? If not, maybe it’s time to start!
March 14, 2025 at 3:18 AM
I’ve seen this especially demoralize early-career teammates who feel their career advancement depends on completing a discovery project that leads to a build

But it’s a success to drop the doomed project early! You completed your goal (research) and reached a clear conclusion
March 14, 2025 at 3:18 AM