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

MLOps Zoomcamp: https://github.com/DataTalksClub/mlops-zoomcamp

Join DataTalks.Club: https://datatalks.club/slack.html

Our events: https://datatalks.club/events.html

Developer Advocacy Engineer for Open-Source - Merve Noyan