I have gotten lousy with the things I learn. So I think every day I will try to share the papers I read, and on the weekends, I will try to share some progress on things I build and implement; I hope this tweet helps me feel accountable!
Took my first interview and copied
@prajdabre1
's question of discussing how a transformer works in depth,
not only did the candidate fail to answer the question they even couldn't tell me what recursion is, and btw they are an AI Scientist at some startup lol.
Meg Mitchell, lead of the Ethical AI team has been fired. She got an email to her personal email. After locking her out for 5 weeks.
There are many words I can say right now. I'm glad to know that people don't fall for any of their bull.
To the VPs at google, I pity you.
Coming from a university where many things are hidden behind black boxes, I wanted to share some insights on how to grab and find opportunities to work/intern at unique places.
Just started MiniTorch lecture series by
@srush_nlp
and it's so cool. I love the emphasis on DL testing and how to integrate testing into building good DL systems
The desire to learn comes from the fact there is so much alpha in writing good ML code for research ideas ;)
Hey Friends,
I am looking for a new role as a Research Engineer/Associate Researcher, MLE or even a SWE(I think I am pretty good!).
I have had the chance to work
@Microsoft
as a predoctoral research fellow and
@prodigaltech
as a SWE.
Small and a little late announcement,
My work on improving low code automation
@ProseMsft
was published
@ICSEconf
(Industry Track). Our work tackles the problem of next action recommendation in low code automation platforms using Personalized Transformers
After a quick contractor role at Boson where I worked on improving VLLM's I am in the market. I am looking for Research scientist/ Applied Researcher/ MLE roles
I have trained cool models for code generation
@ProseMsft
and also have one pub at ICSE.
This was my last Sunday in SF and I decided to do something fun. I love running, walking and going to parks so I decided to go run to as many parks I could in a period of 1 hour.
All I needed was a pack of gummies and my thoughts
1/N
Someone I know lost their parent today, and they sadly had to worry about submitting their lab midterm.
Why is this semester still going on, just give me one god damn reason
Why are people so misogynistic?
And for fucks sake, if you are so amazing how about you tell me about each symbol here, and If you know the symbol what is stopping you from getting an internship at an Amazon research lab?
Your tweet just shows you are salty and incompetent
I am seeing a lot of layoffs. In case you have been affected by a layoff and are looking for new roles let me know.
- I can ask my friends to refer and refer you myself ( Idk if it’s extremely effective but it can’t hurt)
- I can help with Leetcode Mocks
- review your resume
While talking to a friend yesterday, he claimed, "Who is passionate about their job anyway." I further realized he isn't really passionate about anything, or so it seems, and I feel that is a poor way to think. A thread on finding passion and why it could be nice
1/N
I was at Starbucks talking to a founder who said he was solving zero to one problem by working on poop time optimisation using LLM’s and RL. The barista proceeded to give me this cup
It’s 6 PM on a Friday evening you finished all your work. You take a BART to Mission and have your headphones on, you walk to the Boba guys and get a large strawberry fields and go sit in Dolores. Life is amazing.
I am missing so many things right now
One of my friends is looking for a new role as a Software engineer. He is working at a high growth startup( 1 year Work Experience) and has worked extensively with writing back end systems in Python. Let me know if you want an intro, Retweets are appreciated
Has anyone tried feeding an entire codebase to a LLM model?
I think it would be particularly interesting to gain insights as it could help someone just getting started understand the entire workflow, not sure if any work like this already exists
It’s absolutely funny how mid my undergrad institute is.
Kids whole aim career wise is to max out to 12 LPA after graduation and many fail at doing that also.
Cherry on top is an absolutely trash alumni network.
The best thing about writing code is often having just a vague idea of what you want to do and as you write more code you end up solving the entire problem and that is beautiful. There are obviously design principals that you need to take into account.
Kinda mimics life?
I feel one of the best ways to understand big code bases for me is:
1) Start by looking into the code’s call stack manually and then use grep -rl to find specific module and function calls -> helps me create a mental image
2) Open a debugger and step through the code
Found a cool thing while making a document on
@NotionHQ
If you right click on a code block in Notion you get a link to their careers page. I love easter eggs, and I wish more companies would add such easter eggs :)
I hate Python Notebooks with a passion, as soon as I reach a huge chunk of code I regret even starting with a notebook :/, I should have just written a neat script
Exam is in 30 minutes, someone asked me what’s the syllabus.
Relieved to know there are at-least 2 people in my class who don’t have any idea of what’s going on
Bro idk can freshers not google stuff, someone just asked me to explain what Github, Hackerrank and chapters are all in one go, and asked me to not ignore their messages this time.
You know the most cringe thing today is the 100’s of tech twelebs posting random ass announcements 😭. Can you guys stop with the clout chasing for one day?
I haven’t even opened Linkedin but I am sure it’s filled with this shit only
There are just so many cool papers I want to read, I start reading something, I am like ooo I need to read this also now. How do you guys find time to read while doing your own research :/
@qvinnh
Why would anyone say no? I hate people who are this competitive and for no good reason. Like no one is going to take your spot and even if they do there are so many opportunities. The goal is to grow together and cheer loudly for your friends success is how I think about this
And now you can say, grow up, stop crying. I would say if no one calls out companies in India for not being a little more empathetic towards a candidate just because there are several candidates then you don't understand how important time is
5/5
@augustradjoe
I really don't think this is true. For every red t-shirt engineer, you stated I feel there is an equivalent engineer in SF doing the same or more :)
Unless what you said was sarcastic xD
@samridh29
@notmaddyfosho
Family plan with friends for any subscription is always much cheaper than Buying it on student discount. Similar observations with YT premium
I just realized to save a small amount of money I have given up on experiences I shouldn't have (Seeing Coldplay, seeing Post Malone) which is extremely sad.
I am now slowly prioritizing experiences in life over saving just a hundred dollars (Not relevant at all in the long run)
Got a shit team at my internship, damn what do I do, for sure can’t change my teams at this point 😭😭😭 (Feels more like IT work). To anyone who went through this how did you make the best use of the opportunity
Why don't I see more of
@LightningAI
code, sometimes
@huggingface
is just too much abstraction and I get why people go for it, but yeah seeing some good old pl code is just fun. Also easier to understand since less abstraction?
What is the point of investing if you are not investing into yourself? Investing in yourself is always a positive sum game. Invest money, time and more it is worth it!
Just used my stipend to pay the fees for my last year of college and damn does it feel good. The only thing I am happy about after 4 years is how economical this decision has been for me, and this is the only thing I don't regret after coming to this place.
Also some requirements:
1) You have written Pytorch/JAX/Tensorflow extensively and can explain/implement architectures
2) You have played around with tools like Hugging-face accelerate/Deepspeed/FSDP
3) You love problem solving
OR
4) you love learning and are enthusiastic.
Flex your lowest academic low score.
To remind us that almost everyone fails at some point in life but it isn't the end of the road. Just a memory in the end.
Mine was 27/100 in Engineering Math 2, just a year after I'd scored 99 in 12th boards. Much needed kick in my butt.
Got a shit team at my internship, damn what do I do, for sure can’t change my teams at this point 😭😭😭 (Feels more like IT work). To anyone who went through this how did you make the best use of the opportunity
@UrviGoel3
if you don't use Spotify a lot then YT premium is what you should go with it has music as well, and you literally pay 30 per month if you get a family plan. Although the FOMO at the end of the year without Spotify will be an interesting factor xD
I realised the easy part of our lives is mostly over at-least for most of us( I am coming from a position of privilege so I haven’t struggled a lot)
1/n
Finally, the current year has been a rollercoaster ride for me; from being rejected by every grad school to learning so much at a high-growth startup to finally getting a chance to work in CS research full time, this has been an experience that has taught me many things.
Bro MITACS is not paying me enough for the work I am doing, I am not a Ph.D. so why do I have full ownership of the research project, ngl I feel powerful, but I can't do this much as an undergrad. Paper, Simulation, Code, Literature review, Comparison and all this in a new field