Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi

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Mihail Eric on how he entered the world of machine learning, the role of educational platforms in ML, working with customers, managing teams, interviewing people, and thriving at work. Mar 24, 2022

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Mihail Eric is the founder of Pametan Data Innovation, a machine learning consultancy focused on helping organizations build data-driven systems to solve their toughest business problems. He's also the founder of Confetti AI, the premier educational platform for practitioners learning the skills to succeed in their machine learning and data science careers. His career has spanned machine learning industry, research, and engineering across domains such as conversational AI and self-driving vehicles. He has published papers at some of the world's top conferences including ACL, AAAI, and NeurIPS. He has helped start teams at innovative companies like RideOS and Amazon Alexa. Systems that he has architected are used by hundreds of thousands of people globally. He actively blogs and speaks about machine learning. And can be reached on Twitter and LinkedIn.
In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:
Mihail's journey into the world of machine learning:
- How he entered the world of machine learning
- His learnings from running a machine learning consultancy firm
- The role of educational platform and his learnings from building Confetti AI

Careers, Jobs, and Interviews:
- How do you guide new professionals in evaluating what area they like within ML?
- How should a machine learning professional look for jobs?
- How do you interview people?
- What are some of the red flags during hiring?

Product:
- How should ML professionals talk to users/customers?
- How important is the ability to write production-level code?

Overall trends:
- What product that you've personally used has impressed you the most? And why?
- What has been the biggest positive development in ML compared to 5 years ago?
- Looking forward, what aspect of ML excites you the most?

Alexey Grigorev on how to enter the world of machine learning, learning data science, running a data community, writing books, doing projects, interviewing people, and how to be a successful professional. Mar 16, 2022

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Alexey Grigorev is the founder of DataTalks.Club, one of the world's most popular data communities. He is the principal data scientist at OLX. He has written a few books on machine learning. His most recent book is Machine Learning Bookcamp, which is especially relevant to software engineers who want to get into machine learning.
In today's episode we cover a range of topics including:
Personal journey into the world of data science:
- How did you enter the world of data science?
- Can you talk about your recent book Machine Learning Bookcamp?
- You run one of the best data communities in the world. How did you launch it and get the first few members to join?
- What's the hardest part about running a community?

Careers, Jobs, and Interviews:
- How do you guide new professionals in evaluating what area they like within ML?
- How should a data scientist look for jobs?
- How do you interview people?
- What are some of the red flags during hiring?
- How do you onboard a new hire?
- What does a great ML professional look like?

Product:
- How should ML professionals talk to users/customers?
- What do you believe makes for a great product experience?
- How important is the ability to write production-level code?