eshvk

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by eshvk 7y ago
You are right, my mistake.
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by eshvk 7y ago
> H1B: The problem now is that the visas seem to be harder to obtain and have a longer delay. I know people who were stuck waiting for multiple months to do a transfer. > L1: My understanding is that this doesn't provide a path t
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by eshvk 8y ago
One thing I have observed is that engineering roles at national labs tend to have a lot of paperwork needed for an interview. I can understand a faculty role requiring recommendation letters, a long application form to fill up but an engine
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by eshvk 8y ago
> In the broader sense, I guess my question is what are the next steps to build on this basic recommendation system? What is a good way to serve recommendations based on user behavior in near-real time and how do these systems take feedb
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by eshvk 8y ago
Not really sure what your central question then is: The general theme for building a recommender system architecture is: 1. Decide whether you are okay with a batch approach or an online learning approach or a hybrid. 2. Start simple with a
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by eshvk 9y ago
There are roles called Machine Learning Engineers/Research engineers. The work does require enough background in ML; as in it is non trivial to implement an algorithm, consider approximations while scaling without knowing how the math
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by eshvk 9y ago
I work in this field. I can tell you that the maths involved is an easier (and more exciting) learning curve. A lot of software engineering already involves the tools necessary for getting good af math: example SVG transformations and matri
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by eshvk 9y ago
Spotify extensively uses Scala for data infrastructure and ML feature engineering.
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by eshvk 9y ago
> I work in Sweden. I don't think I have seen ever anyone fired. What I have seen is some of the best hiring processes. The process looks at the candidate values, and skills. And there is a discussion about what we expect from her,
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by eshvk 9y ago
There is/was a option available for F1 Visa students called OPT (optional practical training). It could in theory run up ~24 months depending on the company having everify or not.
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by eshvk 9y ago
> Probably will start with either linear algebra or maybe set theory? This can work. I spent a year or so before grad school at work, I brushed up by spending a summer drilling through a Linear Algebra book. A new thing I have been tryin
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by eshvk 9y ago
I think the poster assumed that data science/computational work could provide the mathematical background the OP is looking for. Because Anaconda is a package of tools that include numpy,scipy (python numerical and scientific computin
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by eshvk 9y ago
> Sure I have a new found love for math, but I'm not going to be accepted as a mathematician ever without the rigor of a formal education I think there are two separate things here: 1. Being a research mathematician requires a degre
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by eshvk 9y ago
Also things like qualitative user testing, a/b testing would go into every single pixel of his design. I am not particularly sure if the most important separation of the music listening population is into hoarders vs nomads. You'd
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by eshvk 9y ago
> My theory is that they have a few people manually curate a list with good songs for a while to train an AI, but when they finally turn control over to the AI it falls on its face and starts adding shitty cover band music to the list. A
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by eshvk 9y ago
Noise cancelling headphones don't really drown out conversations. You should get in-ear headphones.
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by eshvk 9y ago
> Many of the people share similar backgrounds Not sure where you get that from. I find significant diversity in academic backgrounds amongst the people who do ML/AI. Some folks in my company include: Mathematicians, Biochemists, Ph
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by eshvk 9y ago
Apparently the new hotness is AI. The last five years have seen titles with similar(ish) roles evolve from Data Scientist -> ML Engineer -> AI Engineer
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by eshvk 9y ago
> mathematical/academic concepts like big O I hope I am not nitpicking here but ain't nothing wrong with knowing the time/space complexity for code you'd write. Especially if you are a "senior software engineer&
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by eshvk 9y ago
> is just not built for Deep Learning What does a "built for Deep Learning" GPU do that the K80 doesn't do?
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by eshvk 9y ago
> Hey let's be honest, most academics (that I know) still don't even use LaTeX (or refuse to do so). What field? TeX is pretty much de rigueur in Math/CS/Physics graduate schools in the U.S.
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by eshvk 10y ago
I work at Spotify on ML. I spent quite sometime working on our production vector model pipelines. We have three components: 1. Training data: Scalding pipelines (could be any large scale production framework) to preprocess training data and
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by eshvk 10y ago
> Well no, there doesn't have to be that many people in the interview, especially the first one. I've never heard of recruiters being there for the interview at all. The recruiter's job is to make sure the candidate gets t
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by eshvk 10y ago
> go after normal business hours Think about it from the other perspective, you want to do an interview after normal business hours. This means that a recruiter, several engineers and a culture interviewer have to also be present after w
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by eshvk 10y ago
I run models on large scale user data (for recommendations). A couple of hundred gigs is what "cleaned" data looks like. This might need to be joined with metadata. This cleaning, joining is easier to do on Map Reduce than wait a
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by eshvk 10y ago
> Most Deep Learning jobs, and even relatively mundane Data Scientist jobs nowadays, want a PhD from my experience. Uhh..No. I have been doing this for 5 years or so. I don't have a PhD; most people we have hired don't have PhD
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by eshvk 10y ago
> Given that AI is highly driven by research right now (no "if" about it), what talent would want to work somewhere where they can't publish research papers? Ehh. I would question that doing research is necessarily highly
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by eshvk 10y ago
> India has a huge movie industry (which is unusual enough) but it gets almost no attention from outside India except by expats. Do you have enough evidence to support this claim? Anecdotally, I have seen a lot of folks in Africa, the Mi
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by eshvk 10y ago
You need an H1B. You would need a job and sponsorship from an employer. So, yes apply for a job and discuss/organize visas.

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