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Moving vectors to different machines sometimes. Founding ml engineer in recsys/search. I like reading, art, Nutella, and terrible jokes

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1Feb 25, '23Women: I can change him Him:108×1.3M18k1.5k471
2Jan 21, '23Intro to machine learning books make so much sense after you have at least five years of experience in machine learning.43.3×535k5k401306
3Apr 25, '24An absolutely fantastic way to increase this is to start a blog. Almost all the cool fun stuff in my professional life for me has come from doing stuff then blogging about it.38.2×471k1.4k1181.2k
4Jun 5, '23Ok, so LLMs are a Thing. How do they work? Embeddings. WTF are embeddings? I spent a year doing a deep dive. But when I was researching, I couldn't find anything that explained the35.7×441k2.3k4492.3k
5Dec 31, '23LLMs are so weird because one side is people with five PhDs who have been studying neuron activations for the past three decades and on the other side is someone called leetm5n wit32.9×406k3.7k354461
6Jun 13, '23When there is a Lewis Carroll quote on the first page of a textbook, you know you are about to have your mind blown wide open32.2×398k69760287
7Jan 27, '24This is actually not dumb! One of the first things I learned year 1 on the job was that executives are often busy and consume content very differently from the rest of us at work, 29.8×368k1.5k57411
8Apr 19, '23Marginalia, the indie search engine that surfaced non-commercial content first, is currently on the front page of HN and handling the traffic load with one $5k commodity server wit24.7×305k1k105377
9Jul 23, '24The single most important thing I have learned about software development over my career is that if you do not aggressively fight complexity, it will eat you alive.24.6×304k6.1k656852
10Jul 18, '23hundred startups just tanked24.6×304k3.2k101104
11Apr 16, '23Inject it into my veins24.2×300k1.3k65133
12Nov 17, '23He train on test or what?24.2×299k2.2k15273
13Sep 8, '24Is there a website that keeps track of the best essays and blog posts about programming and computer science?17.1×212k1.4k651.7k
14Apr 19, '23I was worried ChatGPT would make me obsolete and then I tried it and it almost got the syntax I wanted, I just had to prompt it seventeen more times, now I’m pair programming with 16.5×204k1.8k14286
15Feb 8, '23GitHub just wrote an article about how they had to write their own search engine (in Rust, for performance reasons) and a new probabilistic data structure to reduce indexing time b16.1×199k1.1k95274
16Dec 24, '18It's only called a Neural Network if it comes from the Neuralè region of France. Otherwise you have to call it a logistic regression.15.7×09.3k1.8k57
17Jun 18, '24remember data science12.3×152k7345572
18Feb 27, '19Ten years ago, I didn't know what unit tests, version control, or continuous integration were. Today, my code fails at each of these steps at least once a day. Follow your dreams.12×07.4k1.2k75
19Aug 16, '25The amount of alpha in this post is off the charts11.4×141k1.5k973.1k
20Aug 3, '24There are maybe 5–10 engineers who, when they post, I will drop whatever I’m doing to read their takes on stuff because just listening to them makes me feel smarter by proxy.10.6×131k75718218
21Oct 9, '18Hottest programming skills in 2018: 5. Fixing git merge conflicts 4. Correctly mapping ports in Docker containers to host machines 3. Getting info from AWS documentation 2. Pulling10.1×05k1.6k68
22Jan 27, '23Neural nets when you ask them to explain even a single output9.0×111k87612295
23Oct 2, '18Me at career day in middle school, brightly: Okay, kids. I'm a 'machine learning engineer', which is just a fancy word for - Kid in the back: Yeah, we know what you do. PyTorch or 8.7×05.1k97740
24Feb 22, '23They don’t tell you this in the paper (well they do but you have to read it like 15 times)7.2×89k7135365
25Sep 20, '24a machine learning engineer should be able to debug a pydantic validation error, debug an OpenAI completions error, debug model drift, debug Airflow, debug a FastAPI method, debug 7.1×87k1.1k77482
26May 12, '19Sorting Hat: Merge sort. Harry Potter: Er, excuse me? Sorting Hat: The white board, do a merge sort. Harry Potter: But I thought Hogwarts was a mag- Dumbledore: My dear boy, castle6.9×03.9k92122
27Feb 25, '22A senior developer is someone who fluently hates more than one programming language.6.5×04.1k55560
28Feb 27, '23Throwing "idempotent" into all my documentation and watching people bow to my unyielding technical acumen.6.5×80k6982514
29Mar 23, '242013 — 2023: you were hired to do machine learning but do data engineering 2023 — : you were hired to do machine learning but do web dev6.5×80k7013078
30Jul 12, '22ML textbooks have titles like “A Gentle Introduction to Linear Algebra for Data Analysis” and then the first sentence hits you out the gate with, “Assume the inverse covariance mat6.3×03.9k437168
31Aug 23, '18Name a more iconic trio, I'll wait.6.2×03.4k76122
32Dec 11, '22Here is a way to think about what actually happens when we type inside the ChatGPT textbox. Wonderful paper.6.2×02.6k459772
33Feb 14, '19New blog post: For the past couple years, I've been telling people who ask me for advice not to go into data science. Here's why: The data science job market is way oversaturated. 5.8×02.2k717304
34Jan 6, '23When you go to a dude's website and it's just plain HTML, not even any CSS, and links to posts like "Some thoughts on prime numbers" and "Efficiently checking tries for fun and pro5.5×67k8914444
35Mar 8, '18Somewhere in the multiverse, this HN exists.5.4×02.7k8733
36Jul 8, '19Producer: Pitch me. Me: It's a heartfelt romance about two data scientists who have never met, but leave each other carefully-commented notes in a shared codebase, falling in love 5.3×03.1k53429
37Mar 24, '24i'm just a girl standing in front of the ml research community please begging everyone to type their python method inputs and outputs especially if they are tensors or weird nested5.0×62k5343866
38May 25, '18Unreal. This thing has gone too far.5.0×02.5k7475
39Feb 4, '20Some MIT faculty have put together a course called "The Missing Semester of Your CS Education." Having looked it over a bit, it looks fantastic and will benefit data science people5.0×01.8k565545
40Aug 11, '22CDC says you can use log4j again.4.9×03.1k41123
41Sep 24, '18Producer: Pitch me. Me: It's an ensemble sitcom about a lovable, goofball DevOps team that works for a startup in New York and investigates outages. It's called Brooklyn Five-Nines4.8×02.6k6417
42Nov 23, '22Hey, I’m trying to improve this unsupervised model to correctly label users. Looking for an intern to improve it. Here’s a picture of the current clusters. If anyone has ideas, fee4.2×02.6k182142
43Dec 14, '20If you use your default system Python, don’t worry about what’s in the vaccine.3.9×02.6k27524
44Aug 27, '24I’m sleeping more deeply than ever before, my skin is clearer, I’m hitting my macronutrient levels every day and I haven’t had an overdue library book in months. my secret? cursor 3.6×44k8372589
45Nov 16, '17Dream data science/engineering conference agenda3.5×01.5k6295
46Mar 17, '23Marked safe from thought leadership3.5×43k858637
47Sep 18, '22👑🐐👑3.4×01.7k166295
48Dec 16, '18One of my greatest weird little joys in life is stripping the UTM parameters in links before I send them to other people.3.1×01.9k1925
49Jul 16, '22Big shoutout to this book. I’ve already recommended it to a lot of people looking for either an intro or refresh to linear algebra and am psyched to recommend it in an official cap3.0×01k146574
50Aug 2, '22By age 30 you should have a group of friends that talk you out of distributed systems2.9×01.9k16443
51Jun 9, '24We’re at the stage with LLMs where people new to machine learning are finding out what I found out when I tried neapolitan ice cream for the first time: you can’t make everyone’s s2.9×35k1942027
52Mar 23, '19This is the most terrifying page I’ve read all week. From Creativity, Inc. by Pixar’s Ed Catmull.2.7×01.2k37157
53Oct 8, '21If the machine is the one that’s learning why am I so tired2.7×01.7k20425
54Feb 21, '20Suppose you have to choose between a black box AI surgeon that runs on TensorFlow 1.0 on an EC2 instance that hasn't been upgraded to Python 3 but has a 80% cure rate and a black b2.6×01.6k20828
55Sep 14, '18Ten years ago I was working with malformed data solely in spreadsheets. After ten years of hard work learning engineering and statistics, I finally am blessed to be working with ma2.6×01.6k2217
56Jun 16, '18Every NPR podcast: Host 1: I'm Natasha Gutierrez-Levine. Host 2: And I'm Kevyn Smith-Witherington Jones. Host 1: And today we're exploring Borks, the biodegradable sporks handmade 2.4×01.6k1995
57Jun 9, '20Fifty billion years ago in March, before 2020 really hit the ground running, I started working on a fun proof-of-concept ML project to really explain all the things that need to ha2.4×0925206312
58Feb 10, '22*cries in Slavic*2.3×01.6k4624
59Nov 6, '20Hope everyone is enjoying their week-long stint as a data scientist, the most glamorous tech job of the last 10 years, supposed to be spent analyzing sophisticated models, but real2.2×01.3k20119
60Dec 31, '18December 31 Resolutions: 1. Well-named Jupyter notebooks that run in order 2. No random temporary S3 buckets 3. Clean commit messages 4. Small p-values, good A/B tests, no peeking 2.1×01.3k21321
61Jan 24, '20Me, standing outside Geoffrey Hinton’s office, matted hair, bloodshot eyes, shouting at passers-by: IT’S ALL A SCAM. THERE IS NO AI. NEURAL NETS ARE JUST MATRIX OPERATIONS. *sobbin2.1×01.2k18532
62Jun 15, '20This is really weird and surreal time for happy personal news, but today is my first day as a machine learning engineer @automattic! 👋🎉 💻2.0×01.4k285
63Nov 6, '19Hot data science trends: 2011 T-tests on laptops 2012 Hadoop 2013 Bayesian inference 2016 Spark 2017 Deep learning 2019 Reinforcement learning 2022 Robot war 2023 Cloud computing o1.9×01.1k19032
64Jun 19, '22I am much less worried about sentient AIs than the fact that we are surrounded and influenced by machine learning systems and are not taught how to reason through how they work.1.8×01.1k14758
65Nov 18, '19Me at the beginning of the decade versus me at the end1.8×01.2k12415
66Oct 11, '20How it started. How it’s going.1.8×01.1k15551
67Sep 8, '17As a data person, here's my understanding of the front-end development landscape at the moment:1.8×07802930
68Aug 28, '22DALL-E this and Stable Diffusion that, but we still can't copy and paste text directly from PDFs and keep the formatting.1.7×01.2k8435
69Jul 26, '22Gonna start a conference called #NormIPS that’s just presentations of middlebrow ML topics. “how to structure Python packages 2022”, “how many k-folds is too many”, “how to make th1.7×01k8954
70Apr 11, '20In order to encourage social distancing, it is now mandated that every matrix is a sparse matrix.1.7×01.1k1618
71Feb 24, '20Checking out Effective Python by @haxor. I’m a big fan of the book so far because it takes all the Pythonic best practices you hear about in conferences and on StackOverflow and co1.7×074087247
72Jun 20, '19Producer: Pitch me. Me: It's a reality competition show featuring two groups people that can't stop talking about what they do: gym rats and data scientists. We pit them against ea1.7×01.1k1278
73Sep 2, '22🎉🚨This is real. 🚨🎉 #NormConf is happening. December 15. Online. Free. A day of normcore data takes. It’s gonna be great. Registration is open.1.7×067118297
74Apr 9, '21Being vaccinated doesn't mean you can stop writing unit tests1.7×01.1k1183
75Jul 21, '19Some personal news: I had a baby this weekend! 👶 Everyone is healthy, we are thrilled, and big sister is thrilled. ❤️ So I’m looking forward to catching up with everyone on Twitte1.7×01.2k134
76Oct 23, '18Producer: Pitch me. Me: It’s a gripping action thriller about a detective who switches from Java to Python, hoping to catch a criminal developer, who then switches from Python to J1.7×09841735
77Sep 27, '17I couldn't find a comprehensive guide for how to go from #Python scripts to a packaged project, so I wrote one. 🐍1.6×07282889
78Dec 18, '21LogJ 2Log2J: 2 Log 2 Furious Log3J: Tokyo Drift Log4J Log5: The Fate of J1.6×099915314
79Aug 9, '18Tired of the fight between R and Python? There's another way.1.6×079922718
80Sep 4, '19Job Req: ------ Years of Experience: 37 PhD: Required Languages: Python, R, Scala, Fortran, and Cantonese Experience with: Machine Learning, DevOps, Agile, Marie Kondo Method Someo1.5×09681235
81Jul 1, '18CTO: We’re thinking of replacing our on-perm server with a distributed system in the cloud. What kinds of considerations would help us make that decision? Me:1.5×06952456
83Aug 10, '22Have to install Python on a new machine, goodbye forever1.4×08582796
84Jun 29, '21You do realize that if AI autocompletes your code, that means you have more free time for meetings, right1.4×085510411
85Feb 1, '22“Give me six hours to run a deep learning model and I will spend the first four tuning Kubernetes.” – Abraham Lincoln1.4×09088238
86Apr 11, '20Ok I’m only 14 pages into Thinking in Systems but I’m going to have to go all in on recommending on it.1.4×068342174
87Aug 29, '20I'm an introvert, so I'm not having as hard of a time as the poor extroverts, but something that I really miss is ambiently being around people. I sometimes like being in cafes, in1.3×08976912
88Aug 15, '22Don't touch that, that's my emotional support Sublime Text tab for making sure copy/paste gets formatted in plain text1.3×0865717
89Aug 25, '21The more programming languages I learn, the fewer strong opinions I have about any one language other than just as a tool to get something done.1.2×0776869
90May 11, '20My developer path: Learning how to work with dirty data in Excel @ 19 Learning how to work with dirty data in Access @ 24 Learning how to work with dirty data in pandas @ 25 Learni1.2×07995626
91Jan 3, '19Producer: Pitch me. Me: It's a musical comedy about an overeager team of data scientists that does way too many tests on bad data. It's called "Gimme Gimme Gimme a NaN after Midnig1.2×07221204
92Oct 31, '21Producer: Pitch me. Me: It’s a high-stakes Korean thriller where you watch people under enormous stress kill Linux processes. It’s called Pid Game. Producer: Get out.1.1×0724877
93Feb 11, '21Yeah, of course, I work 90 hours a week, but 60 of those are writing my own CSV parser1.1×0810397
94Sep 1New post: We need to be deleting more code. 💆‍♀️1.1×14k22315104
95Jul 16, '19My working theory is that 10% of any data science/adjacent job is actual machine learning. Unless your title is "Machine Learning Engineer", in which case it can be as much as 20%.1.1×06709413
96Dec 3, '20Spotify Wrapped, but for my command line history1.0×0686377
97Nov 27, '21Smoothly segues into the iq bell curve meme.1.0×06695929
98Mar 21, '21I love how the LinkedIn crowd is like, “Get fifteen hours of sleep, create space for your meditation. Truly focus on your success.” Buddy, just now as I was trying to eat a piece o1.0×0723375
99Feb 16, '22The hardest problem in machine learning is getting off your chair to do the 2-factor auth confirm when your phone is two rooms away.1.0×06884315
100Dec 19, '21The NLP My kids community at 5 am 🤝 Attention is all you need1.0×06914012

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