Sarah lost in Data Science 🚢 @InfernoCodes

I'm shocked to announce that the "12-week year" concept might not be productivity nonsense after all 🤯 For those of you unaware, "The 12 Week Year" is a book, often found among other big productivity books like "Getting Things Done" and "Atomic Habits" and all that other stuff.…

I see a lot of talk about "how to get into machine learning," but less so about what happens after. 🤔 Currently, I am "only" 2.5 years into the career, but so far, the list of things to learn hasn't gotten shorter since leaving university. On the contrary, with the rise of…

I am so tired of these people 🫠 stop using my pictures to scam others plssss

I moved my desk setup again 🫣😌 my “office” has 3 sides of windows and one brick wall, so finding a side to put my desk at is fairly challenging 😅 I had it against the wall for the last while, because I thought that would make the most sense rather than having to darken the…

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Networking Dinner 🥘 "Networking" is a funny word for someone coming from a non-academic family. I remember in school, on my way to university, and early in uni, how everyone always said, "you need to network in the corporate world." I imagined stuffy small talk and handing out…

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Day 4/7 of reading papers: Would not recommend (for beginners in this topic). Started with question marks in the abstract hasn’t gotten much better on page 8/11 😅 Interesting concept but someone please recommend me a better paper on this topic that explains why the heck we…

I read a paper: "Jailbroken: How Does LLM Safety Training Fail?" 📜 (it's from 2023, so it's not that old and yellow) First of all, everyone, please clap 👏🏻 I started and finished a paper 🥳 Secondly, I would recommend reading it - it's relatively easy to read and presents some…

Paper reading day 2/7: I’m on page 6 of this and somehow the whole paper can be summarised with the graph from the introduction so far 🫠 not sure what I expected but maybe there will be more interesting details in the next few pages

Hi, I just bought a book, and you can too, for 50% off 📕 (this is not sponsored; I just like spending money) I just picked up "LLMs in Production" by Matthew Sharp and Christopher Brousseau. It's a MEAP (which stands for Manning's Early Access Program) - this means the book is…

Announcement? I’m unsure about the “right” way to deal with stuff like this when you have a public profile, but: it’s my last week of work at my current job 😳 I accepted an offer for a new position as a machine learning/AI engineer back in January and my notice period ends…

Weekend Recap Photo Dump: 1. I went to the office to present my 40 slides of PowerPoint to the team about a big project I was in last year which might be done again soon. Going over what we learned, what went wrong, what needs to improved etc 🫠 2. In the evening the company…

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Quick “what I’m currently doing at work as a data scientist (in it consulting)” update …. 🫠 Yup. It’s PowerPoint. I used to like making PowerPoints when I started this job 2 years ago - I liked being creative with the structure, making even theory-heavy topics kind of…

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Sometimes, I get so overwhelmed that I go and solve an easy Leetcode problem 😅 (after I've procrastinated for 2 hours on TikTok and started a new Factorio save file). Studying using books and courses, trying to expand your knowledge is all well and good, but sometimes it just…

I tried to save money by using open-source text-to-speech models 💸 … It didn't go well. I have been using the OpenAI "speech" endpoint in their API to convert research papers and book chapters into audio versions. The audio is of excellent quality. However, the snippets you…

Gemma, Gemini, … Google certainly has a pattern here… 👀 First things first: I'm exhausted - can we have a rule that new AI can only be announced once a month, please? 🥴😅 Next up: I added a Gemini Advanced subscription to my list of subscriptions - thankfully, the first two…

Explaining LLMs - I've started reading a survey paper about methods to explain what LLMs are doing when they are generating our text and solving our NLP tasks 🤖. It's "Explainability for Large Language Models: A Survey" (sadly, survey papers don't seem to follow the creative…

It's the weekend, which means it's time for side projects 💻🥳 Today, I experimented with BERTopic, a library dedicated to topic modeling. What is that? Good question. Topic modeling is a method used to identify main themes in documents. For instance, in a book about space, it…

Do you ever feel like you can't keep up with all the LLM content, and it's already too late to become an expert in this field? 😫 I sometimes feel that way, so here's a realistic learning update from me ✋🏻 Before LLMs and the current hype phase, where we get new papers daily, I…

Will Machine Learning be used in all jobs? - Probably most, yes, but wait ✋🏻 This question often seems to stem from a place of fear. So, let me explain my answer: 💻 Probably 90% of jobs use a computer in some way nowadays. Doctor’s offices use a computer to manage patient data…

NAND to Tetris: One of my favourite courses in university 👩🏻‍💻 Yesterday, I talked about the book “Build a LLM from scratch,” and today is another example of how “building from scratch” is a great way to gain a deep understanding of something. In my bachelor's in computer…