Designing feedback loops in machine learning system design — Introduction In machine learning systems, we often receive some kind of feedback from the model’s environment, that is then fed back into the system. …

My thoughts on learning VIM as a software engineer — Introduction When you first start learning to become a software engineer, one topic that is often brought up is learning VIM, a command-line text editor that foregoes using the mouse in the name of increased editing speed. But if you’re like me, then you are probably wondering if you really need…

How to leverage graph information in your ML models — Introduction Many real-world data-sets can naturally be framed as graphs. For example, on online platforms such as social networks, users can be represented as nodes, and follows or likes can be represented as edges. However, when building models on data from these domains, people often simplify the problem by ignoring the…

How to deal with missing data while building ML models — In real-world (tabular) data-sets, you will often realize that not all features will be available for all of your rows. Learning to deal with this phenomenon will allow you to still make use of your data-set even when some data is missing. Types of missing data There are a variety of reasons that may…

Google’s neural network model for content recommendation — Introduction Multi-task learning is a machine learning method in which a model learns to solve multiple tasks simultaneously. The assumption is that by learning to complete multiple correlated tasks with the same model, that the performance of each task will be higher than if we trained individual models on each task. Multi-task learning in Machine Learning Deep multi-task learning with neural networkstowardsdatascience.com

Deep multi-task learning with neural networks — Introduction In most machine learning contexts, we are concerned with solving a single task at a time. Regardless of what that task is, the problem is typically framed as using data to solve a single task or optimize a single metric at a time. …

How to ask better questions — No matter how experienced you are, everyone eventually has to ask someone else a question at work. However, not all questions are made equal. The thing that separates people is how they ask their questions. By following the tips below, you can ensure that you are being respectful of others’…

Zoom fatigue — what it is and how to avoid it — It’s that time of the week again — your recurring hour-long Zoom meeting. As you join, you hear people already in the middle of a conversation. Was it just small talk? Was it work-related? You’ll probably never know. The meeting officially starts. The person running the meeting unsuccessfully tries to…