tacticalDonut

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by tacticalDonut 2y ago
Any book or course recommendations for someone who has a senior SWE background but has never touched hardware/embedded systems?
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by tacticalDonut 2y ago
Great thanks! Sent an email. Second child being born soon so I'll have some (sleep deprived) time to work on this for the next 6 months!
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by tacticalDonut 2y ago
What email should I reach you folks at? I'm an ML engineer and have specialized in computer vision, both on edge and at hyperscale. I'd like to help how I can.
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by tacticalDonut 3y ago
US DoD heavily controls what can and can't be installed on their stuff. To make matters worse each branch and organization has their own approach to how they control what gets installed. Sometimes it's just the path of least resis
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by tacticalDonut 3y ago
Oh boy, were you stuck with NMCI devices? At NSWCCD we at least had an RDT&E network we could use...
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by tacticalDonut 3y ago
Yeah, it's frustrating that he doesn't call out the specific limits.
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by tacticalDonut 3y ago
Why didn't you go the retrieval augmented generation route with a vector store?
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by tacticalDonut 5y ago
What platform do you use to teach the course? I've been teaching an ML from scratch course for junior devs at my company and think it'd be useful for others.
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by tacticalDonut 5y ago
This reminds me of Microsoft's culture. Especially with all the reorgs. Good luck with your (hopefully) next job!
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by tacticalDonut 5y ago
I don't use Teams because I like it, I use it because I have to at my company...
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by tacticalDonut 5y ago
Dude run from your current employer. I actually transitioned into software dev after working as a Mech Eng after 2 years and I started at $120k. With you experience I feel like you could do way better.
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by tacticalDonut 5y ago
Yeah, the problem is that the US Government is trying to hire developers in at GS11 positions (~$72k salary in high cost of living area). Never going to get good junior devs at that price point. Don't get me started on security clearan
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by tacticalDonut 5y ago
I've tried pitching similar roles in Government on the DoD side of the house for knowledge workers like Software Dev and Data Scientists. It's hard to get traction though when the folks making the decisions feel threatened that a
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by tacticalDonut 6y ago
I've come to realize that the promise of a 50/50 split between technical work and management after getting promoted to a data science technical lead manager is not something that is feasible within my org. Unfortunately, I'm
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by tacticalDonut 6y ago
They've not yet produced a functioning truck. The one they made can't actually move and might not be anything more than a mostly empty shell.