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.
Read More ›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.
Read More ›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.
Read More ›paper-summary language-models alignment
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
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.
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.
paper-summary attention sequence-learning
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
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.
Read More ›Mini-Tutorial: Installing PyTorch (CPU-only) on Ubuntu
28 Nov 2022 Some notes on how to install PyTorch (CPU-only for now) on Ubuntu
Read More ›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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