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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