👋 Hi, I'm Eugene Yan

I work at the intersection of consumer data & machine learning to build ML systems that help customers. Currently an Applied Scientist at Amazon helping users read more. I also...

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• 27 Sep 2020  ·  RecSys 2020 - Takeaways and Notable Papers
• 21 Sep 2020  ·  CareerFair - Day-to-day as an Applied Scientist at Amazon
• 20 Sep 2020  ·  Routines and Tools to Optimize My Day (Guest Post by Susan Shu)
• 13 Sep 2020  ·  How to Accomplish More with Less - Useful Tools & Routines
• 07 Sep 2020  ·  Migrating Site Comments to Utterances

• 09 Aug 2020  ·  Unpopular Opinion - Data Scientists Should Be More End-to-End
• 05 Apr 2020  ·  Stop Taking Regular Notes; Use a Zettelkasten Instead
• 27 Feb 2020  ·  My Journey: From Psych Grad to Leading Data Science at Lazada
• 26 Jan 2019  ·  Data Science and Agile (What works, and what doesn't)

• 23 Aug 2020  ·  Embrace Beginner's Mind; Avoid The Wrong Way To Be An Expert
• 09 Jul 2020  ·  The 85% Rule - When Giving It Your 100% Gets You Less than 85%

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• 📚 applied-ml: Papers on real-world machine learning
• 📋 ml-surveys: Papers summarizing machine learning advances
• 🐍 python-collab-template: Template with tests, type checks, linting, etc.
• 🔍 testing-ml: Example tests for machine learning systems
• 🧪 papermill-mlflow: Experimentation workflow for machine learning
• 🐳 poc-docker-template: Docker template for reproducibility
• 🛒 recsys-nlp-graph: Simple Recsys and experiment results
• 🎓 FAQ: Georgia Tech Online Master's of Science in Computer Science