This Week's Reads: 🔥 Data Science Links #ND30
Interesting Data Science links that you can quickly consume like a bottle of coke!
Hello,
I stopped sending during the weekend thinking I might be contributing to the weekend-burnout + toxic-producitvity. Considering this newsletter is about your professional development, I decided to send it during the weekdays. What do you say?
Beyond Broken
Horrible Remedies for Broken Recommenders. This is a very nice post about how our Recommender systems are broken in case something is changed. Let’s say you looked online for some cancer treatment and that person is no more and you still get Cancer-related Ads, How traumatic it must be! Read this»
How I Got a Job at DeepMind as a Research Engineer (without a Machine Learning Degree!)
Aleksa Gordić is not your average non-CS guy, but he’s also not from Ivy League. He’s done a great job of explaining how we landed a Job at DeepMind - the company behind AlphaGo and a lot more advancements. Aleksa Gordić also talks about his YT channel TheAIEpiphany. Read this»
Hugging Face’s T0++
Pronounced "T Zero Plus Plus" shows zero-shot task generalization on English natural language prompts, outperforming GPT-3 on many tasks, while being 16x smaller. It is a series of encoder-decoder models trained on a large set of different tasks specified in natural language prompts. Try it out»
Bonus:
Kaggle’s Data Science Survey Analytics competition is happening with $30K, Try your luck here
Happy Learning!
Thanks,
Abdul