Max Mynter
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I had a couple of people in my DM's asking for advice on how to become a ML Engineer.
My answer has been more or less the same each time.
So i put in some effort, did a proper write-up on my blog, and links to some great actionable resources
Link below & in bio
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Yes, i’m a basement dweller
Yes, i get natural light
We exist
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Credentialism and it’s consequences habe been a disaster for the human race.
The main thing i learned at Berkeley is that there is no hidden knowledge
You can, in principle, learn anything from books/the internet at home
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fellow ML grinders & anime pfp's
quote below reminded me of a great free ML resource on arXiv
"A high-bias, low-variance intro to ML"
Covers a lot of ground in only 100ish pages and is useful for anyone with some mathematical aptitude
great resource to get started, and to
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@zeta_globin
A lot of sociological research points to that the barrier for men to get intimate with someone is (way) lower than for women.
But for committing to relationships there are no statistical differences w.r.t standards and expectations from a partner between the sexes
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new website, who dis?
got an inaugural blog post on how to learn hard things bc. i'm doing that for a while and got things to say.
Also have a neat collection on learning resources i like.
will build it out over time.
let me know what you think.
link in bio 🌶️
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> be me, study social science
> Love stats, hate yaps
> F off to physics
> Kinda prefer people to particles
> Learn ML for quant SocSci with online data
> Build SWE skills to do better ML
> I'm in love
> God put me on earth to SWE
I did it, anons, I found my passion
wagmi
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@arithmoquine
The hoops continue.
It’s called management consulting.
Waking up and leaving the hoops was painful.
But worth it.
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Belated 2024 half time learning update
~ 500 after work hours on
- k8s
- Docker
- Python Deep Dive
- Deep Learning for NLP
- DSA Fundamentals + LC
- Svelte
- Designing Computer Programs
- nvim, tmux, typing faster, general terminal tools
- Git Deep Dive
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@Kaju_Nut
A 2 year course based masters is usually a prerequisite for european 3 year PhDs. So both have 5 years of grad school
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@xsphi
On one hand it’s apples and oranges because the laws of physics make founding and sustaining an extraterrestrial colony much harder that flight.
On the other, i have no doubt man will eventually live on other worlds. The first human born off earth is probably closer than the
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@HosmanHugo
@quantian1
A university is kinda like a building where they collect tutors in to teach you stuff
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@jeremyphoward
I used to think that (not speak out loud, i'm not cocky).
Then i got utterly humbled by a few competitions.
Was a slap in the face that made me learn (again) that there is a difference between theoretical knowledge and practical skill.
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here you go:
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@netcapgirl
My roomie once said
"everything you want to be good requires work"
He said it about a party we planned (was awesome, btw) but it stuck with me
You can literally make things good by putting in effort
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The main value in uni is having someone curating your curriculum, spoon feeding you the content, and getting a nice piece of paper employers like.
Elite schools also may give you a very strong network into a countries elites.
The knowledge is not a differentiator
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As a self-taught SWE who spent quite some time at uni, so i got some thoughts
Is it necessary? No.
But
- It's a trust signal
- Buys time to learn useful stuff
- Gives you friends + powerful network
- Opens doors
For the full thing: link in bio🌶️ & first comment
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@maxisawesome538
It‘s simple.
Not easy.
But simple.
I started late '22 grokking ML, CS and SWE textbooks.
Throw in some moocs, do the exercises, build stuff, find a community, keep a steady pace you can sustain for years and remarkable things happen.
It did take 7 months of this to get an
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All i want from life rn is:
- lots of quality time with friends and gf
- lift heavy stuff and put it down again
- surf big and often
- write great software and get cracked
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@yacineMTB
Especially when it becomes a regular thing.
Any consistent input into the body will shape it a certain way.
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@gabrielpalac
@fasc1nate
Still has elevated radiation levels. They entombed the reactor though.
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@nomanautomata
@lordofgummies33
I in HS i dropped Physics in 10th grade and took math pass/fail. Went to study sosci. There, i discovered I kinda like stats and experiments. So i started over with Physics. At the time i barely knew trig functions.
I now have a graduate degree. People have different timelines.
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@zekedup
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DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS<voice cracks>DEVELOPERS
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utterly humbled by leetcode today.
i‘m a paid professional
wtf
I should be able to solve this
must. get. better.
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@JsonBasedman
Germanys wealth amassed during decades of export surplus allows us to indulge in expensive leisure activities such as political activism that hates change as much as stagnation.
(It‘s basically NIMBY‘ism paired with a genetically inherited trait of larger than life figures that
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@miniapeur
Residue theorem was one of the most mindblowing ones in my maths education. Like, i really did not see that coming.
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@MajmudarAdam
Hard disagree on 6.
Choosing any resource to move forward is almost always better than searching for the perfect one and not starting.
Also 5 is bogus. You cheat yourself when you only learn high level and lack the fundamentals to understand it fully
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Gradient descent knows the minimum it wants to find at all times. It knows this because it knows where the minimum isn’t. By subtracting the current guess from the point where the minimum isn’t, or where the minimum isn’t from the current guess (whichever gradient is steeper), it
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I miss the old Yacine, straight from the 'Go Yacine
Code up dingboard Yacine, set on his goals Yacine
I hate the new Yacine, the slop poast Yacine
The wage cage Yacine,
I miss the build Yacine, the beat Adobe Yacine
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Networking?
Anon, it’s called being nice and making friends.
Nobody will wants to help you if you view it solely transactional
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When I started out, I related to the we're all just copy-pasta dev jokes.
But reaching some level of competency, i see these jokes as a dangerous psy'op.
As you gain skill, you
- can write logic without googling,
- can make stuff elegant and efficient,
- feel that the skills
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2 years of professional developer work and constant after hour learning, I look at these job postings and think "wow, i tick most of the boxes"
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Hey peeps, we just made 2k
Welcome everyone!
I‘ve got a couple blog posts in the pipeline about stuff i learned in the decade i‘ve been a conscious adult.
In between its regular schedule on meme meta-commentary or learning Haskell, Kubernetes, other CS stuff, or whatever
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@anpaure
Lel, first one when i opened. As a German dev with some tenure in the Bay. The commentsgonna be a joy
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@wateriscoding
has a nice walk through everything that an ML org needs apart from modeling itself. You‘ll learn a lot about enterprise grade MLOps setups and the surrounding SWE stuff.
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@hthieblot
So he just promoted himself to engineering manager without asking his employer(s)?
Thats high agency
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Learning about how DBs work internally - memtables, merge trees,..
i can really build on my DSA grind.
Fuck man, computers and what humans do with them are just plain awesome
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@jeremyphoward
I would guess with prolonged exposure to political activism in an algorithmic environment that promotes shock value they have built a strong ideological, black and white framing of the world, a distorted view of acceptable actions, and built up an idealised picture of an enemy --
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@IterIntellectus
Tell me again how man forcing sand to solve 200 million protein folding problems isn’t some black magic fuckery
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@animalologist
So much this!
People say that relationships require work.
And sure, there may be some instances where you have to figure stuff out.
But for the vast majority of time, you should uplift each other and the relationship should flow.
If it feels like constant emotional labor,
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@Aizkmusic
Pinterest, certain reddit communities are gender skewed female.
Generally, the more visual a social medium the more successful women are compared to men.
Turns out both men and women rather see women .
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Learned vim 4 months ago for the memes
Now i have to wash my hand every time i touch a mouse
Never going back
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@mattyglesias
Humans are very good at quickly adapting (psychologically) to changeing situations.
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Day 2 of haskell,
building muscle memory of basic syntax.
Kinda like how it reads.
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@tom_doerr
@Hamptonism
I highly doubt that domain expertise became less valuable.
You still need experts who can factcheck LLM output if you want to be a company who has an information advantage
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Just told my roomie to not work to long
At 10 pm
On the way my to my desk
To work
Anyone else far better at giving advice than following your own?
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Didn‘t expect mentions of special relativity in designing data intensive applications.
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Mom just reminded me that i changed to physics because i wanted to „study something so hard i would cry in the corner for feeling to dumb“
(I did, wasn’t pretty)
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It‘s a meme, but also a really great book.
Started yesterday and got up early today to read a couple more pages before work.
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@Karmedge
Agree, a year ago i was using gpt heavily for learning. But as my skills grew i used it less and less bc. Im faster typing out what i want myself.
Hunting gpt bugs is annoying af and you cheat yourself out of the learning experience.
It’s great when you’re getting started w
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@ctjlewis
A few years ago few shot learning was the norm and now they cry if it doesn't one shot everything?
You know, humans also can't one-shot most things
instead monkey see monkey do
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Less yapping, more building.
Heading out here for a couple days.
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@anuatluru
You could give me 10 million cash and i would not stop bootstrapping my cs education bc. I enjoy it so much.
And forcing me to stop, would be way more expensive
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@airkatakana
When gf and i were in japan, we were going to a small sushi place. The lady who ran it seated us. Next to us was a group of suit wearing japanese business people (i guess). One of them got up to us and told us the place is closed. Took our menus and handed them back to the lady.
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As a teenager i was really impressed by the aloof coolness of cynics.
A decade in, i know it’s cope
Makes you feel all smug and smart, but it kills your ability to operate
Nihilism, not even once
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@airkatakana
Every time I say that reading textbooks as a self-taught engineer helps me learning the CS fundamentals I am lacking, i have people in the replies:
"Nooo, reading textbooks is hard, have you read a textbook?"
like, wtf, then don't read it, but also don't expect faang level
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The compact mathematical notation that has developed over centuries is very useful, makes reasoning about and manipulate equations easy and you should understand it if you want to engage in serious technical work.
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Just realised my Dad runs a B2B micro SaaS side-hustle since 22 years.
I mean, i knew, i just never framed it that way.
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People want to help, but when you‘re a „work in silence“ type, they will never know they could.
Talk about what you want to achieve.
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Why is it so much easier to download textbooks than to read them?
Truly a tragedy....
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