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Friction: the shift from academe back to industry

Friction: the shift from academe back to industry

When I started grad school, I did not expect to go down the rabbit hole of deep learning.


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4 lessons from 3 months of people management

4 lessons from 3 months of people management

Today is October 1, officially the start of Q4. I started in my management role in Q3.

Training in half-precision

Training in half-precision

Some time ago, I read about this new GPU from NVIDIA that’s supposedly a notch higher.

Brewing my thesis topic

Brewing my thesis topic

I had to brew it and let it sit in my head. Left it there with patience, like how you would brew cold-brew coffee.

Lessons from training deep models, part I

Lessons from training deep models, part I

or: Lessons from Deep Reinforcement Learning (CS 295) Mini Project I wrote these things at the height of our cramming for our CS 295 Mini-project last summer (March-April 2019).

Film Magic

Film Magic

You know what’s the best thing about stuff from the olden times? They don’t have dependencies.