We talked about:

• Merve’s background
• Merve’s first contributions to open source
• What Merve currently does at Hugging Face (Hub, Spaces)
• What is means to be a developer advocacy engineer at Hugging Face
• The best way to get open source experience (Google Summer of Code, Hacktoberfest, and sprints)
• The peculiarities of hiring as it relates to code contributions
• Best resources to learn about NLP besides Hugging Face
• Good first projects for NLP
• The most important topics in NLP right now
• NLP ML Engineer vs NLP Data Scientist
• Project recommendations and other advice to catch the eye of recruiters
• Merve on Twitch and her podcast
• Finding Merve online
• Merve and Mario Kart

Links:

• Hugging Face Course: https://hf.co/course
• Natural Language Processing in TensorFlow: https://www.coursera.org/learn/natural-language-processing-tensorflow
• Github ML Poetry: https://github.com/merveenoyan/ML-poetry
• Tackling multiple tasks with a single visual language model: https://www.deepmind.com/blog/tackling-multiple-tasks-with-a-single-visual-language-model
• Hugging Face big science/TOpp: https://huggingface.co/bigscience/T0pp
• Pathways Language Model (PaLM) blog: https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/04/pathways-language-model-palm-scaling-to.html

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