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As a Manager: Is it Worthwhile? How Worthwhile?

28 May 2023   Some thoughts about the frame of mind you need to get into as you transition to a technical management role.

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As a Manager: Stating the Obvious is Important

28 May 2023   Examples and an overview on why managers should state the obvious even when it may seem unnecessary.

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As a Manager: Drive Growth by Asking Open-Ended Questions

22 May 2023   One of the ways you can foster growth in reports is to ask open-ended questions.

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Paper Summary: Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback

05 Feb 2023   Summary of the 2022 article "Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback" by Ouyang et al. AKA the InstructGPT article

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Paper Summary: Language Models are Few-Shot Learners

01 Jan 2023   Summary of the 2020 article "Language Models are Few-Shot Learners" by Brown et al. AKA the GPT-3 Paper.

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Paper Summary: BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding

01 Jan 2023   Summary of the 2018 article "BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding" by Devlin et al.

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Paper Summary: Long Short-Term Memory-Networks for Machine Reading

25 Dec 2022   Summary of the 2016 article "Long Short-Term Memory-Networks for Machine Reading" by Cheng et al. AKA the "Self-attention" article

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management soft-skills

As a Manager: Tell Reports "Why" as Often as Possible

12 Dec 2022   Asking somebody to do something without fully telling them the underlying reasons saves time in the short run but prevents growth in the long run. As often as you can, tell people the why behind a given task or decision.

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Mini-Tutorial: Installing PyTorch (CPU-only) on Ubuntu

28 Nov 2022   Some notes on how to install PyTorch (CPU-only for now) on Ubuntu

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Pandas Fillna Examples: Filling in Missing Data

16 Oct 2022   Examples on the most common ways you will find yourself using fillna and related functions in pandas.

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