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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 isnโ€™t something โ€ฆ

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

Anthropic โ€“ those dudes behind Claude. Itโ€™s an alternative to OpenAIโ€™s ChatGPT, backed by some seriously massive investments from Amazon. Rumor has it theyโ€™ve got a model even more โ€ฆ

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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 โ€ฆ

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How I burnt out in FAANG, but my job was not the problem

Once upon a time, there was a boy who loved building websites. He also enjoyed sharing his findings at conferences. Then he moved from the middle of nowhere to London. Started โ€ฆ

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Getting a talent visa in the UK for mortals

Did you always think various "talent" immigration programs imply a Nobel prize? I am going to tell you how a regular software engineer from the middle of nowhere could get a talent โ€ฆ

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How to get an online Master's in CS for a price of your morning latte

How I got into Georgia Tech's Online Master of Science in Computer Science (OMSCS) program while working and living in Russia; requirements to enroll for foreign students; How much โ€ฆ

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How I got multiple FAANG offers in Europe

Yet another story of how an ordinary guy from the middle of nowhere in Russia managed to get multiple FAANG offers. This time, in Europe. I'll tell you a little about my โ€ฆ

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Strict mode in TypeScript || help your compiler help you

Recently, at Hazelcast we have migrated our Management Center to TypeScript. Not just TypeScript, but the strictest TypeScript there is. If you are interested in why we decided to โ€ฆ

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