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SearchSimplicity is An Advantage but Sadly Complexity Sells Better
Pushing back on the cult of complexity.
14 Aug 2022 · 7 min · machinelearning engineering production 🔥
Uncommon Uses of Python in Commonly Used Libraries
Some off-the-beaten uses of Python learned from reading libraries.
31 Jul 2022 · 10 min · python engineering 🔥
Design Patterns in Machine Learning Code and Systems
Understanding and spotting patterns to use code and components as intended.
12 Jun 2022 · 13 min · machinelearning engineering python 🔥
What I Wish I Knew About Onboarding Effectively
Mindset, 100-day plan, and balancing learning and taking action to earn trust.
Red Flags to Look Out for When Joining a Data Team
What to consider for in terms of data, roadmap, role, manager, tooling, etc.
13 Feb 2022 · 8 min · datascience career 🔥
The First Rule of Machine Learning: Start without Machine Learning
Why this is the first rule, some baseline heuristics, and when to move on to machine learning.
19 Sep 2021 · 8 min · machinelearning career 🔥
System Design for Recommendations and Search
Breaking it into offline vs. online environments, and candidate retrieval vs. ranking steps.
27 Jun 2021 · 13 min · teardown production engineering recsys 🔥
Search: Query Matching via Lexical, Graph, and Embedding Methods
An overview and comparison of the various approaches, with examples from industry search systems.
25 Apr 2021 · 21 min · teardown machinelearning production 🔥
Feature Stores: A Hierarchy of Needs
Access, serving, integrity, convenience, autopilot; use what you need.
21 Feb 2021 · 19 min · teardown machinelearning engineering 🔥
You Don't Really Need Another MOOC
Stop procrastinating, go off the happy path, learn just-in-time, and get your hands dirty.
24 Jan 2021 · 9 min · learning datascience 🔥
Real-time Machine Learning For Recommendations
Why real-time? How have China & US companies built them? How to design & build an MVP?
10 Jan 2021 · 21 min · teardown machinelearning recsys production 🔥
Data Discovery Platforms and Their Open Source Solutions
What questions do they answer? How do they compare? What open-source solutions are available?
25 Oct 2020 · 16 min · teardown datascience engineering 🔥
Unpopular Opinion: Data Scientists Should be More End-to-End
Why (and why not) be more end-to-end, how to, and Stitch Fix and Netflix's experience
09 Aug 2020 · 17 min · datascience machinelearning leadership 🔥
Georgia Tech's OMSCS FAQ (based on my experience)
Why OMSCS? How can I get accepted? How much time needed? Did it help your career? And more...
How to Set Up a HTML App with FastAPI, Jinja, Forms & Templates
I couldn't find any guides on serving HTML with FastAPI, thus I wrote this to plug the hole on the internet.
23 Jul 2020 · 3 min · engineering python til 🔥
How to Set Up a Python Project For Automation and Collaboration
After this article, we'll have a workflow of tests and checks that run automatically with each git push.
21 Jun 2020 · 20 min · engineering production python productivity 🔥
Stop Taking Regular Notes; Use a Zettelkasten Instead
Using a Zettelkasten helps you make connections between notes, improving learning and memory.
05 Apr 2020 · 6 min · writing learning productivity 🔥
My Journey from Psych Grad to Leading Data Science at Lazada
How hard work, many failures, and a bit of luck got me into the field and up the ladder.
27 Feb 2020 · 12 min · career datascience lazada 🔥
Data Science and Agile (What Works, and What Doesn't)
A deeper look into the strengths and weaknesses of Agile in Data Science projects (Part 1 of 2).
26 Jan 2019 · 13 min · agile datascience productivity 🔥
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