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Alex Burlacu

MLOps for independent research

Doing independent research can be costly. Find out how to make the most out of your investments, and how to think about cost vs…

14 min readJan 12, 2023

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MLOps for independent research

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Alex Burlacu

A fable about MLOps… and broken dreams

A fable about a company’s journey through scaling their ML function, and some practical advice on how you should do it.

16 min readNov 21, 2022

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A fable about MLOps… and broken dreams

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Alex Burlacu

Interviewing for a Senior ML Engineer position

Interviewing is always a tiring and sometimes awkward process. Thankfully there are lots of resources online to help you prepare. But what…

11 min readJul 23, 2022

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Interviewing for a Senior ML Engineer position

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Alex Burlacu

Choosing programming languages for real-world projects

What to keep in mind when picking a language or tool to implement your next software project?

9 min readJun 17, 2022

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Choosing programming languages for real-world projects

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Alex Burlacu

Becoming a Senior Engineer

Depending on the organization, a mix of these four traits is necessary to take the mantle of a “senior engineer”.

7 min readMay 23, 2022

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Becoming a Senior Engineer

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Towards Data Science

Going beyond simple error analysis of ML systems

When deploying machine learning algorithms, the stakes are much higher than in any toy problem or competition.

15 min readJul 26, 2021

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Going beyond simple error analysis of ML systems

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Alex Burlacu
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Towards Data Science

K-Means tricks for fun and profit

K-Means is an interesting, simple, and pretty intuitive algorithm. It turns out it can do more than just clustering.

9 min readJun 19, 2021

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K-Means tricks for fun and profit

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Alex Burlacu
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Towards Data Science

Logging, Tracing, Monitoring, et al.

So, you want to launch your code/app/system in production? How do you plan on knowing when things go south? Logs to the rescue!

13 min readMay 18, 2021

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Logging, Tracing, Monitoring, et al.

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Alex Burlacu

Elixir pattern matching magic

Prologue

11 min readMay 9, 2021

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Elixir pattern matching magic

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Alex Burlacu

Feature Selection for Machine Learning (2/2)

In this part, we’re gonna see how to use information-theoretic concepts like mutual information, to identify the most relevant features…

6 min readSep 15, 2019

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Feature Selection for Machine Learning (2/2)

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Alex Burlacu

Alex Burlacu

ML Engineer. Passionate about innovation and community building. Fully migrated towards alexandruburlacu.github.io and here I'm just mirroring the content

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