2023 December Newsletter

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MY QUICK UPDATES

  • This past month I spent a lot of time on vacation and celebrating the holidays, so I didn’t get as much Machine Learning done as I would have liked to. However, I have been hacking on some projects – NLP on a popular blog, heart disease prediction using a kaggle dataset, and a video that uses voice cloning with Eleven Labs.

THOUGHTS, INSIGHTS, AND ADVICE

  • If you’re trying to get a job then you should focus on learning the skills that employers actually want. Building an RNN from scratch in NumPy is impressive, but building an Image Classifier using a pre-trained model in PyTorch and deploying it in a Kuberentes Cluster is more useful.

RANDOM LEARNINGS, KNOWLEDGE, AND REMINDERS

  • I spent some time looking through a large number of Machine Learning Engineer job postings to see what technologies employers want us to be proficient in. I created a list of the ones I saw mentioned frequently and I bolded the ones that I thought were mentioned the most. Here is the list:
    • NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-Learn
    • TensorFlow, PyTorch, Huggingface, Keras, Transformers
    • MLFlow; Kubeflow
    • Airflow
    • Apache Spark / PySpark; Ray
    • AWS / AWS SageMaker; GCP / GCP AI; Azure / Azure ML; IBM Watson
    • Kubernetes / Helm, Docker, Terraform
    • SQL, Postgres
    • Hadoop, MapReduce
    • Jenkins
    • Jupyter Notebook, Google Collab
    • Git

OTHER USEFUL/INTERESTING RESOURCES

Michael Hammer

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