20 quotes that I use as inspiration to change my life.
Print them out. Keep them close. Read them frequently. Reflect on them and the wisdom behind every word.
Let's start:
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Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, "We've always done it this way." I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counterclockwise.
— Grace Hopper
With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again.
Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.
Creating a good machine learning model is really sexy. That's what's different and where everyone focuses all of their attention.
But machine learning is much more than that.
A thread with a few thoughts about the real job.
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Machine learning engineers spend a lot of time designing and training new models, but this is just a small fraction of their job.
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In reality, dealing with data and operationalizing models is much more time-consuming and sometimes even harder and more involved than creating the models in the first place.