If your company has already started getting into machine learning / deep learning, you will quickly relate to the following story. If your company is taking its first steps into data-science, here is what is about to be dropped on you. If none of the above strikes a chord, well it’s probably good to know what’s out there because data-science is all the rage now, and it won’t be long until it gets you too 🙂

We are all familiar with this scenario, you work on your training code, fix “all” of the bugs (the ones you know about), wait for a few iterations, see that batch size wasn’t wrong and nothing blows up, and then you happily go home. However, when you come back into the office the next day look at your loss and test accuracy you’re horrified to find that the experiment crashed on the first test cycle because you pointed your test set in the wrong folder 🙁

The recent global pandemic caused by the COVID-19 virus has threatened the sanctity of our humanity and the well-being of our societies at large. Similar to times of war, the pandemic has also given us the opportunity to appreciate the things we take for granted such as health workers, food suppliers, drivers, grocery store clerks and many others who are in the frontlines keeping us safe at this difficult time, Salute!