We talked about:

• Mihail’s background
• NLP and self-driving vehicles
• Transitioning from academia to the industry
• Machine learning researchers
• Finding open-ended problems
• Machine learning engineers
• Is data science more engineering or research?
• What can engineers and researchers learn from one another?
• Bridging the disconnect between researchers and engineers
• Breaking down silos
• Fluid roles
• Full-stack data scientists
• Advice to machine learning researchers
• Advice to machine learning engineers
• Reading papers
• Choosing between engineering or research if you’re just starting
• Confetti.ai

Links:

• https://twitter.com/mihail_eric
• http://confetti.ai/

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