I recently read this paper: Language (Technology) is Power: A Critical Survey of “Bias” in NLP Its basic conclusion is that the Natural Language Processing field has not settled on a rigorous definition of bias yet. By analyzing 146 NLP papers that attempt to measure or address bias, the authors…

Today, I watched a video about a guy who has totally redesigned his tiny San Francisco loft. Coder finds DIY analogic solutions to improve SF small loft — YouTube Ignore the goofy title. In it, he talks about the feeling of wanting to get everything perfectly the way he wants…

Recently, I reconsidered my Sublime Text setup for programming in Python. I wanted to know the latest best practices, shortcuts, and plugins. Here are the results of my research. Plugins The most important plugin you should install right away is Anaconda. Spend some time reading the docs. …

If you are new to Natural Language Processing, and you’re looking to start learning, welcome! There’s no better time to start learning about this diverse field. Because it’s so diverse, you’ll encounter multiple ways to learn it. Here are a few different starting points. …

The author of the article Does AI Truly Learn And Why We Need to Stop Overhyping Deep Learning argues that deep learning (DL) is overhyped because DL systems don’t actually think. For instance, he says this about the way researchers describe their systems: In contrast, data scientists all too often…

In my career, I’ve worked in several research settings. In undergrad and during my Masters, I worked in research Natural Language Processing labs. I was a research assistant, so my tasks revolved around data gathering & cleaning, analysis, and annotation. …

One of the Amazon values is being “Customer-Obsessed.” Leaders start with the customer and work backwards. The basic idea is to start with imagining what you want the customer experience to be, and then work backward to come up with changes to the software to make it happen. (Now, I’m…

When hiring for an engineering position, most people would turn to the Internet to get up to date on the latest best practices. Most of the guidelines and advice on the Internet comes from large companies, so their advice is aimed at similarly large organizations. For example, the hiring process…

I saw a blog post recently about the factors that set apart a 10x programmer from the rest. I agreed with most of it, but like the comments say, the author should’ve included something about creating maintainable systems. I feel that the author could have gotten the same point across…