Last year, I was tasked with creating a technical interview for PlaygroundXYZ. I was excited for this opportunity as it allowed me to bring some positive changes to this area of talent acquisition that I thought could use a little help. I experienced many technical interviews over the years in…

Introduction KPIs rule the world. There is a saying, “what gets measured gets done.” Measurement plays a basic factor in management. With good indicators, you can easily see if your team is achieving a goal or not. You can determine if your work is making an impact, manage your processes, and…

Patience is a virtue; one that I’ve come to appreciate even more after learning the hard way. Upon being promoted to manager, my inexperience caused me great insecurity, leading me down an unproductive path of micromanagement — an itch you must not scratch if ever in such a position! Distinguish Between Manager’s Accountability and Team Responsibility. New…

Introduction Are you passionate about programming and curious about the latest innovations in your field? In this post, we will explore some of the activities we have tested at GumGum to drive innovation and try out new ideas. Let’s be honest, this is a very difficult topic. Every day brings something…

As humans, we have a great understanding of similarity between 2 images having the same objects or in a similar setting. We easily make sense of the 2 images below, but making a computer do the same thing might be tricky. Algorithms or computers in general need numbers to work…

In my last blogpost, I touched on what multi-task learning is, how it works, and why it is becoming the de facto standard for machine learning development. In this blogpost, I want to share a simple implementation of a multi-task learning model that you can experiment with yourself or adapt…

A needle in a haystack? During the first computing years, monitoring systems lacked many incredible features that we rely on nowadays. If someone was lucky, some logs could be found instead of just some core dumps in case something crashed. So, you might be wondering how engineers were able to find the root cause of…

Introduction Over the last decade, real-time reporting has become very important for making decisions based on the latest data. The customers and product team request that the reports contain real-time data so they can make up to the minute informed decisions. GumGum uses real-time data to (1) make rapid decisions while…

One of the most exciting and seemingly ubiquitous recent topics in deep learning (DL) is without a doubt multi-task learning. Multi-task learning (MTL) is a model training technique where you train a single deep neural network on multiple tasks at the same time. Though it may seem a little counter-intuitive…