Fail. Learn. Repeat.
Fail. Learn. Repeat.

F#%kups and revelations in tech and life

By Andrey Goncharov. AI research padawan. Engineer at heart. Rock star wannabe.

𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻-𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗠𝗟 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗼-𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘀 - 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗹𝗴𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗺𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘀

This year I’ve been designing homework assignments for an ML course at Skoltech (Russia’s answer to MIT/Caltech for science and technology). After bombing more job interviews than …

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Little ML book club

We are reading "Ultra-scale playbook". Together!

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ML misfits club or what to do when nobody wants you

TL;DR This summer I did not get into any of a bunch of research programs and schools. After crying into my pillow, I remembered someone smart saying that knowledge isn’t something …

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I failed my Anthropic interview and came to tell you all about it so you don't have to

Anthropic – those dudes behind Claude. It’s an alternative to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, backed by some seriously massive investments from Amazon. Rumor has it they’ve got a model even more …

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How to switch from software engineering to AI research if you are lazy as f**k

For 7 years I happily played with web. For 6 months I was burning out. Next 2 quarters I tried to reassemble myself, looked for the meaning in life and fantasized how I would …

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