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Daliana interviewed her friend of 10 years, Mike Lo, on how he went from a physics PhD to Sales Engineer at Databricks, and fun stories of their friendship in LA.
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Evelyn was an analytics manager at Amazon and now full time vlogger. We talked about how she became a vlogger, how she navigated her career after leaving Amazon, and what she learned about the creator economy.
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I went on Super Data Science with Jon Krohn to discuss how to accelerate your career in data science, why I paused the podcast, and how to navigate the industry's change.
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Ben Rogojan, aka, Seattle data guy is an ex-Meta data engineer turned data engineering consultant and YouTuber. He has 100k followers each on YouTube and LinkedIn. We talked about how he become an independent consultant and the current state of data engineering.
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Daliana interviewed 6 data scientists from her meetup in New York City. It's a unique episode where you get to hear the real frustrations of data scientists. We talked about struggles working in healthcare, finance, data quality and AI, how to advocate for yourself, and align with your managers.
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Most experimentations fail, Kristi Angel shares her expertise on scaling experimentation and avoiding common A/B testing pitfalls. Learn five things that can help boost test velocity, designing impactful experiments, and leveraging knowledge repos. (Chapters below)
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(00:00:00) Intro
(00:01:26) Why do most experimentations fail?
(00:07:05) Mistakes in choosing metrics
(00:10:05) Is revenue a good metric?
(00:13:18) Split metrics in three ways
(00:15:10) Daliana's story with too many category breakdowns
(00:16:59) What makes the best data science team?
(00:19:24) Data scientist work in silo vs in a data science team
(00:21:15) Building a knowledge center
(00:23:40) Example of knowledge center; nuance of experimentations
(00:26:09) How many metrics and variants?
(00:30:56) How to reduce noise - CUPED
(00:33:01) Future of A/B testing
(00:38:33) Q&A: Low statistical power
Julia Silge is an engineering manager at Posit PBC, formerly know as R-studio, where she leads a team of developers building open source software MLOps. Before Posit, she finished a PhD in astrophysics, worked for several years in the nonprofit space, and was a data scientist at Stack Overflow where some of her most public work involved the annual developer survey. We talked about MLOps tools, challenges in survey data, text analysis, and balancing her interests in data science and engineering.
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(00:00:00) Introduction
(00:00:56) Getting into data science
(00:04:50) Transition from data centers to engineering manager
(00:14:04) Common challenges in tool development
(00:17:38) Challenges with survey data
(00:26:47) Engineering skills for data scientists
(00:28:59) Balancing roles
(00:34:49) Developing skills in Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)
(00:39:19) Python vs. R for data analysis
(00:44:40) Exciting aspects in career and personal life
Wes McKinney is the co-creator of pandas library and he is the cofounder of Voltron data. Currently he is a principal Architect at Posit and an investor in data systems.
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(00:00:00) Introduction
(00:00:44) How Pandas Started
(00:06:40) Voltron Data
(00:10:03) Benefits of Easy-to-Use Data Tools
(00:13:20) The Rise of New Data Tools
(00:18:07) Choosing Tools: Vertical or Flexible?
(00:23:01) Big Models and Data Tools
(00:29:29) Challenges in Building a Product
(00:31:28) Becoming a Top Architect
(00:34:55) Missed Aspects of Previous Roles
(00:39:04) A Busy Week: Advising, Designing, Investing
(00:43:42) Improving Open Source
(00:45:24) How to Decide What to Work On
(00:46:28) What he’s learning now
(00:47:56) Excitement in Career and Life
(00:48:29) Using ChatGPT for Learning
(00:50:27) Future Impact Goals
I interviewed Geoffery Angus, ML team lead @Predibase to talk about why adapter-based training is a game changer. We started with an overview of fine-tuning and then discussed five reasons why adapters are the future of LLMs. Later we also shared a demo and answered questions from the live audience. Try fine-tuning for free: https://pbase.ai/GetStartedGeoffrey’s LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffreyangusDaliana's Twitter: https://twitter.com/DalianaLiuDaliana’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dalianaliu/
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Try finetuning for free: https://pbase.ai/GetStarted
(00:00:00) Intro
(00:01:19) What is Fine-tuning?
(00:08:18) Utilizing Adapters for Finetuning Enhancement
(00:09:50) 5 reasons why adapters are the future of LLMs
(00:26:34) Common Mistakes in Adapters Usage
(00:28:34) Training Your Own Adapter
(00:32:23) Behind the Scenes of the Adapter Training Process
(00:37:51) Config File Guidance for Fine-Tuning
(00:39:41) Debugging Strategies for Suboptimal Fine-Tuning Results
(00:42:23) User Queries: Creating a LoRa Adapter and Future Support
(00:51:06) Key Takeaways and Recap
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