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Product @kaggle @google 💙 Ex @stackoverflow ML / Open Models / Language / Community. Weirdness. Minnesotan in Toronto. Learning Cantonese. 我學緊廣東話.
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Never, oh! never, nothing will die;
The stream flows,
The wind blows,
The cloud fleets,
The heart beats,
Nothing will die.
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🎉 We upgraded
@kaggle
GPU Notebooks to offer 29 GB RAM (up from 13GB) & 4 CPU cores (up from 2).
Have fun go nuts share cool stuff!
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Just noticed my husband is editing a YAML file in MS Word. 🤨
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My mom sent my photos of a poinsettia ornament she made out of punch cards in 1973. Uhh, sick.
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Yesterday I asked some Kagglers about their favorite creative ideas with real-world applicability that they found through Competitions ...
They're very cool so I'm sharing them in a thread (add your own!) 👇
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Life update: This week I accepted a new job. With Google Canada. I'm relocating to Toronto! Taking Kaggle with me don't worry. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦☺️
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I need recommendations. Just send me whatever recommendations you have about anything.
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Good morning! So excited to share I've joined
@StackOverflow
as a Product Manager! Couldn't be more thrilled! 😊
#FDOW
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Kaggle launched a "Load from URL" feature for notebooks!
1) 🆕 Create a new notebook:
2) 🔗 Pick "Load from URL" from the file menu
✨In the GIF I used
@fchollet
's simple MNIST convnet example:
Let me know what you think!
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Just came across this cool kaggle notebook sharing jupyter tips and tricks
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I'm very VERY excited that we'll be able to start sharing some job postings for Kaggle (ahem, "Google") soon. Hiring across many roles: ML Eng, Competitions Data Scientist, SWE, PM, (T)PgM. :)
Keep us in mind and HMU if you want, but I'll share more specifics soon.
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Love leaving Google, coming back a year later, and picking up bugs from two years ago again.
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My husband found a new job today after a long search. He's starting Monday. Very happy for him. 😌
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Today we launched Kaggle Models! Big congrats to the team. We've been working on this for a while, but this is also definitely just the start. 🚀 Read more and let us know your feedback and ideas in the forum post 👇
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Honestly so worried about Google's mandatory RTO. I tried to go into the office today and:
1) someone was using the desk I booked (I don't have my own desk)
2) zero conference rooms or booths available
So I just went home ...
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We've increased size limits for Datasets and Notebook outputs so you can do more with data on Kaggle. Enjoy!
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My team is working on making Stack Overflow's public Q&A a more welcoming and inclusive platform for everyone who codes. 🤗 Including as a resource for new coders and the teachers/experienced devs who help them. 🎓
Do you want to talk about this? Send me a DM. 📨
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Over 5 years ago I started at Kaggle as a part-time content marketing intern. Now, I'm head of product. But today I hit a career milestone that's brought things full circle: I was re-granted access to the Kaggle Twitter account. 😈
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Love this scheduled notebook that summarizes winning solutions from
@kaggle
competitions from
@sudalairajkumar
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My boyfriend doesn't believe me that Americans will heat up water in a microwave to make tea 😂
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CONGRATULATIONS to the
#SLICED
season one winner:
@drob
!!! 📊🔪
Catch the replay of last night's action-packed showdown between
@drob
and
@EthanCDouglas
on Twitch:
Huge thanks from me and
@nickwan
to all of our contestants, supporters, and viewers!
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Today's my last day at Google. The last 3yrs with Kaggle have been exhilarating--it's hard to believe how far I've come thanks to the support and encouragement from
@antgoldbloom
,
@benhamner
, amazing coworkers, and the community. I'll carry immense gratitude with me forever. ♥
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I had a joke about notebooks, but I lost track of my state and can no longer reproduce the punchline
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My mom got my grandma a digital photo frame thing that we can email photos to (she's extremely alone right now)
And I get a notification every time she likes one of the photos I send 🥺🥺🥺😭😭😭🥺🥺🥺
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Heeyyyy I got TensorFlow for GPU working on a GCE instance after enough struggle to deserve its own tweet.
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News! 📣 Today is my last day at Stack Overflow. It's been an incredible, rewarding 2019 working with so many talented people where I learned so much every day.
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#SLICED
* NEWS 📢
We're finalizing competitors for our June relaunch! If you're interested in live coding ML problems a few Tuesdays this summer, hit me up! 👩💻🧑💻👨💻
* = Chopped but for data science show on Twitch. More info on our website 🌎
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A little over four years ago I pretty much failed a SQL interview at Kaggle. This week I helped
@antgoldbloom
debug a SQL query. Love moments that cause me to reflect back on what an incredible journey it's been.
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Excited to launch
@KaggleDatasets
connectors! You can now create datasets from:
🔗 Remote URLs
🐙 GitHub Repos
👩💻 Output files from Kernels (data pipelines!)
Plus, you can schedule your URL and GitHub datasets to update automatically. 💅
Read more ➡️
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Big news!
@kaggle
Kernels are now more powerful so you can run more computationally intensive Python/R code:
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I don't write Python often, but when I do ... I get off to a bad start quickly. 🤦♀️
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Want to know how
@kaggle
does remote-first?
@vimota
and I share our top 5 remote-first tips for teams new to working from home!
#remotework
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I started at Kaggle as an intern doing content marketing over two years ago. Today I reviewed my first engineering design doc with two developers on my team. 😀
Sometimes I don't realize how much I've learned until I try to come up with something interesting to tweet.
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My parents have gone from not really understanding my job to thinking I work at Slack.
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A couple of weeks ago a CS undergrad told me my haircut made it hard to believe I could be a Google PM. Today an L7 PM @ Google told my haircut was cool.
Be yourself, friends. ❤️❤️❤️
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I'm nervous about giving my first keynote tomorrow morning. I'm also anxious about waking up early on a Saturday.
Wish me luck!
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For my first ever
#TidyTuesday
I'm sharing a Kaggle Notebook exploring college student demographics and salary potential. Thanks
@kierisi
for sharing the data on
@KaggleDatasets
! 💫
👩💻 notebook:
🧮 dataset:
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It's funny to see Kaggle has ~1,000 "employees" on LinkedIn. Really we're just about 40 or 50 people.
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I just published “Applied introduction to LSTMs for text generation”
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Very cool paper comparing topics between Kaggle and Stack Overflow, two of my favorite websites.
Also a great example of what you can do with the Meta Kaggle public dataset.
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I put together this dataset of fake news sources ... It's just a start, would love contributions! cc
@fastml_extra
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Kaggle's hiring a Staff ML SWE to work on client libraries & integrations for developers using datasets, models, etc. This is a first of its kind role for us & you'll get to work closely with me & other great people.
We hire thru Google's process -- DM me & I can tell you more.
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They should have migrated Gmail to Inbox.
I have ten days to keep tweeting about this.
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My parents have started to describe me as a Twitch gameshow host because apparently that's less confusing than Kaggle / Google product manager 😒
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We're launching an official
@kaggle
Discord: . I'll be managing some channels around ML data, research, papers, etc. including possible speaker series and paper reading groups.
If that interests you, join up! You'll need to link a Kaggle account to post.
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I just published “Learning to analyze huge BigQuery datasets using Python on Kaggle”
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For anyone with new year resolutions to learn R/Python for data science, I recommend checking out
@rctatman
's superb 5-day coding challenges:
1) Beginning R/Python:
2) Regression in R:
& hopefully more in 2018!
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Going from knowing everything and a half at one job to starting fresh is rough. Anyone have any tips for feeling better about it?
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Join me and
@nickwan
in cheering on this week's
#SLICED
competitors! They'll be live coding on a never-before-seen dataset Tuesday @ 8:30PM ET at 📊🔪🤩
Who will SLICE and who will be SLICED?
@JordanWilheim
@JPohlkampHartt
@TonyElHabr
@juliasilge
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My boyfriend hugged my head from behind while I was at my desk working today and exclaimed "Hugging Face!" 🤗 😂
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Remote-first tip: In large meetings, stay muted. Notice when someone unmutes and allow or invite them to speak. 👩💻🔇🔊
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Cousin I haven't talked to in months signed up for Kaggle and got a welcome email from me (via intercom). She replied, asked if it was really me her cousin, then invited me to Thanksgiving in the OC. 😂
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How to know nothing
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I've been back at Google for 7 months now. And I have to say... it's been fantastic and different. I'm really happy. That's all.
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I answered my first
@StackOverflow
question today. On something I'm incredibly knowledgeable about because I'm still way to nervous to go anywhere else. :P But still. Huzzah!
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Everyone, I would like some feedback. If you think my tweets are funny, could you go ahead and click or tap on the ❤️ symbol? Thanks!
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Me when I wake up: it's 4am somewhere!
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New haircut. Shout-out to my stylist for not making me look like a member of NSYNC with frosted tips or something.
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My team is working on making improvements to posting a question on
@StackOverflow
. ✨ If you haven't used the site much including asking a question before, we'd love to talk a few people to get feedback on some designs. 🎨
Send me a DM if you're interested. 📨
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How Kaggle addressed its spam problem using Google Cloud's AutoML in just 8 days
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This is being forced on us in an effort to connect everyone to the "Google Community" and I've never felt more alienated by this company
The connections myself and others have built with coworker spanning geographies & time zones are just as much worth investing in
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Opinion (probably not unpopular): EVERYONE in tech needs regular training in research/data ethics. And statistics.
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Read my reflections on Stack Overflow and how my product thinking around building for communities has matured
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I've interviewed a lot of people. I never remember if they had sent me a "thank you" or not by the time an offer is made. Just not something I spend 🧠 cycles on. 🤷♀️
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About a year ago-ish I was really very unhappy. Life is quite different now. Much happier. Feeling good. :)
#microblogging
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I tell him to download VS Code and he looks at me like I'M the🤪one
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We've released a Gemini 1.5 Pro API integration w/ Kaggle Models so now you can use it seamlessly in Notebooks 😃
Check out this starter notebook showcasing the 1M token context window + image understanding capabilities
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If you're looking for time series datasets to experiment with, here's a few (in thread) from
@KaggleDatasets
(many including code examples you can fork in Kernels):
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Earlier today I was thinking about how depressed and struggling I was a year ago. So much has changed. I'm so happy and thankful. 🥰
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Some photos from today's hike at Lake Louise. It was totally stunning. 🥰
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I just published “Better collaborative data science”
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Hello week four
#SLICED
contestants! Who will you root for? Watch as they live-code on a never-before-seen dataset tomorrow @ 8:30PM ET at
@creeeeeeeeeeg
🇳🇿
@drob
👩🎤
@StatsInTheWild
🎨
@kierisi
🍕
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Sharing an important feature launch for kaggle notebooks
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6 months @ Stack Overflow today! 🎉
Excited to soon share more about what my team and I are working on. 😉
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I'm excited to be rejoining rejoining my team, Kaggle, at Google, where I'll be getting back to my data science / ML roots.
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How do people work productively in open offices? Literally don't get it. 😩
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I just published “Doing reproducible data science on Kaggle”
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"SELECT Post FROM Stack Overflow Questions WHERE Topic = "git" ORDER BY Votes DESC;"
#DEVcommunity
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As a linguist trying to learn a language from a non-linguist is so hard.
Him: just say it "flatter"
Me: I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that
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