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Engineering @ Melius
- You're not stuck because you need more knowledge. You're stuck because you're not executing. As my old professor used to say, let's move.
- If you want to self study ML without wasting time here is the definitive guide since I've gotten so many DMs on this topic: Just answer this one question: - do you want to be a cracked researcher or a rlly fucking good engineer? TLDR; 1) engineer path? read PyTorch docs, a
- guys not tech related but my gf and i broke up just now after 2.5 years of dating. she had my early twenties, the pain of young adulthood, the joy of college, everything in my early twenties. idk what to do tbh. i’m lost and feel like half of me just ripped off.
- how retarded am i? i got to where i am today out of spite this is gonna sound so fking autistic but basically my ex's mom was a successful statistician with a PhD and she low key looked down on me for dating her daughter and I knew that ML was like a step above stats in research
- I got promoted in < 1.5 years at Amazon to mid level cuz I finished a migration project that my old team could not solve for 3 years. Here's my advice on large scale software migrations: 1. use gating mechanisms to direct traffic - if you don't use a gating logic that is easily
- not often you see a gem dropped on YouTube for ML systems check this vid out
- cs is one of the few fields where just doing the major is not enough to get a job you need to rlly hone programming as a skill outside of the classroom to even be considered “entry level”
- i lost the person i loved most because i treated life like a deterministic optimization problem spent 2 years obsessively planning every variable: - career trajectory - skill acquisition timelines - financial milestones - "personal growth" checkpoints I literally had an
- cracked programmer does not mean you have to be a dick help others
- unemployed friends, is it rlly that hard to get an entry level role these days? genuinely curious cuz im trying to help my friends who r graduating soon
- instead of being obsessed with topics like LLMs, be obsessed with problems like search or retrieval. this is how you differentiate yourself from the sheep and be a 10x ML engineer
- hey you, i know you. you’re a CS major or a software engineer don’t do another theoretical ML course you’re smart enough. you’re letting your imposter syndrome take over all your free time start applying your working knowledge and fill gaps as you go if you need to do a
