We talked about:

• Yury’s background
• Failing fast: Grammarly for science
• Not failing fast: Keyword recommender
• Four steps to epiphany
• Lesson learned when bringing XGBoost into production
• When data scientists try to be engineers
• Joining a fintech startup: Doing NLP with thousands of GPUs
• Working at a Telco company
• Having too much freedom
• The importance of digital presence
• Work-life balance
• Quantifying impact of failing projects on our CVs
• Business trips to Perm: don’t work on the weekend
• What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger

Links:

• Yury's course: https://mlcourse.ai/
• Yury's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ykashnitsky

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