Saurabh Kumar @drummatick Twitter profile

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Saurabh Kumar

6 months

This tweet is about how I have studied ML and made it my profession. I'll share the resources I've used and the sequence of my study. Straight to point ML pre-requisites(maths) : Linear Algebra, Probability Theory, Calculus, Optimization Theory(optional), Information

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Saurabh Kumar

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10 months

@PicturesFoIder The hustle culture scam. Social media tries to convince us we should always hustle and then they try to sell courses on how to succeed in life. You're made to feel lazy if you don't monetize every hobby or cash in on every idea.

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10 months

@TansuYegen Am I the only one who thinks the video gradually gets sad?

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So many startups just died today. So many

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Saurabh Kumar

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7 months

In my previous company, there was a senior software engineer who joined my team. Bro wrote 3000 lines of python+PyTorch code in one go with test cases and everything. He wrote it entirely in vim No IDE. No VsCode. And it all ran in one go That time I realized what kind of

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God knew if Japanese engineers could speak English fluently then they’d be too strong. Like seriously, Japanese engineers are hella good. Some of the most detailed engineering blogs, products and packages I use are developed by either Japanese or Chinese engineers. It’s just

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Saurabh Kumar

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3 months

> is a legendary grandmaster > makes devin > shakes entire software industry > leaves without any explanation

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2 months

@tnypaws (Contains hyaluronic acid)

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7 months

@McDonaldsJapan McDonald’s releasing their own anime series

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Saurabh Kumar

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1 year

@NoContextHumans "Can I get a max(abs(x),abs(y))=1 for all y > 0" Barber: Say no more

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Saurabh Kumar

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6 months

One of the best advice my IIT roommate gave me was, “when your life isn’t going up hill, make sure it doesn’t go downhill. Atleast try to stay where you’re at by doing minimal things” If the curve of life isn’t going up, just make sure it stays flat, right where you’re and

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If you're the first engineer from a middle-class family your life is gonna be really hectic. Not because of the job but because of the other things that you'd be doing for the very first time. Filing for taxes, getting health insurance for your family, reading terms, starting

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8 months

A junior from IITD contacted me. He said he's interested in IoT, electronics, and design, but everyone around him is coding and discussing DSA. Because of this he feels a lot of FOMO and isn't able to pursue his interest correctly. He even re-considered his own interest and

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Saurabh Kumar

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9 months

Most of the tools we used in IIT Delhi were built by students. And it made everyone’s life easier. When we saw “okay we need a better TnP portal”, students build it. When folks saw “okay we don’t have a course allotment system” they talked to profs and build it. When we saw

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Saurabh Kumar

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3 months

> be an engineer in blr > your cloud provider: AWS > your water supplier: also AWS

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Saurabh Kumar

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6 months

IIT KGP Day 1 placement stats Total offers received : 700 Compared to 2022(760) you could say there’s a drop of around 8%. Not much. Kudos to TnP cell of IIT KGP

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In IIT during internship/placement season we were often told to keep multiple versions of our resume Different resume for different kind of company or role you’re applying for For instance, having different resumes for different roles such as Dev based roles Quant based

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Bonus in HFTs is crazy Couple of my juniors got 80Lakh bonus. That’s just bonus Base is around 70LPA. And they have just 2 years of work experience. And as for the WLB it’s quite good as well. Median 7-8 hours shift, max 10 hours.

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11 months

@Rainmaker1973 PoV : ONE PIECE skypiea arc

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3 months

A good ML project you can build (which was my course assignment in IIT Delhi for 10 marks) is summarizing NPTEL or any other open course video available online. The problem statement is as follows, given an NPTEL video, there are certain time stamps on which the "content slide"

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3 months

He promoted Machine Learning like no one else ever could

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Many of you might not agree but this is how peak career trajectory looks like

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This is the best python playlist available on youtube I have checked probably 10 other python playlists but nothing comes close to this in terms of depth and ease of understanding

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@gharkekalesh Waiting for dog lovers to defend this and say "Dogs just need love, he bite the kid cause he wasn't treated properly"

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Learn NLP It’s really high ROI Most people don’t know anything about classical NLP(bag of words, tfidf, n-grams, lemmatization, hamming or cosine distance, PoS tagging, topic modeling, NER etc). They do know about transformers and LLMs and RAGs as they’re trending right now,

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9 months

@archiexzzz @IndianTechGuide Developed an “algorithm” Sorry the algorithm has been open source for decades and now can be imported in 2 lines

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Saurabh Kumar

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10 months

@bahdcoder I know a senior software engineer One of the best His github looks like this

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1 year

@OliLondonTV “ He also received a 2 year criminal behavior order barring him from filming social media videos without the consent of people featured in that content. ” In any sane country this should already be a law and not the outcome of a criminal conviction

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Saurabh Kumar

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2 months

Yup already knew it. Felt it first hand Paper 1 gave me trauma And paper 2 made me realize that it’s okay if I don’t make it to an IIT, let’s just give up, mains m to acha score hai hi

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2 months

🚨 As per experts, among all the IIT JEE sessions, 2016's JEE Advanced question paper was the most challenging for the students.

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@PicturesFoIder

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“I just login 4 to 5 hours at Microsoft” Yup sounds about right, that’s what I’ve heard from my friends as well

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Saurabh Kumar

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8 months

JEE will come and go but no question left me as baffled as this one. I just saw this in the examination hall(2016), thought a bit, and decided to skip it

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8 months

JEE Advanced 2022 (Paper 1). This question is the lowest correctly attempted question in the past 15 years, with a success rate of only 1.73%. This is one of the great fun questions I attempted in a while, and still took me 17 minutes to solve.

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Saurabh Kumar

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7 months

@sama Board: you resign Sama: ohh how about you resign instead Board: what? Sama: what? OpenAI team: hell yeah!!

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4 months

If you want to learn competitive programming using a book, with detailed code in C++ designed especially for CP, this book is gold. I used to use it a lot in my college days.

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5 months

@EugeneVinitsky It wasn't that chatGPT killed SO, it was the unfriendly and hostile nature of SO to beginners. There's a reason why people still go to Reddit even after chatGPT but not to SO

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Saurabh Kumar

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7 months

Back to where it all started 🥹

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2 months

@StefanTMD Brother you’re supposed to call APIs not comedians

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@StateOfLinkedIn r/technicallycorrect

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Saurabh Kumar

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3 months

Just saw a reel of an influencer saying "college m C/C++ padhate hai jo industry mein kahi use nhi hota". I am at a loss for words. But again these influencers don't stay in the industry for long either, before they start another DSA course. Don't be so gullible that you find

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Your college matters Your degree matters Your CGPA matters Your department matters Your IQ matters Your peer group matters Your luck matters If only skill mattered for success, you’d see every successful person to be highly intelligent and skillful. Conversely you’d never a

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@NoContextHumans People in 1950s: Bet we will have flying cars by 2023 Meanwhile cars in 2023:

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3 months

NVIDIA gained $250B In A Single Day ☠️

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“If you’re not spending 10+ hours apart from your job to learn new things you will be replaced in tech” Bro like are we working for living or living for working?

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CGPA should be highly prioritized for the first 3-4 semesters in engineering. Cause after that, it's difficult to change it significantly. I observed this in almost all of my peers at IIT(including mine). My CGPA after the 4th sem was around the same as the CGPA I finally

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In my undergrad level machine learning course by IIT Delhi, there were limited registrations of around 90 people. But almost 250 people enrolled. So much so that people had to sit on floor. There was no space at all. The craze for ML back in 2018 was just so huge in the

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As a fresher the greatest skill you can have is being good at asynchronous programming. It took me a while to understand it completely. When I started I thought yeah “async await” that’s all I need to know. But only after a while I realized that asynchronous programming is much

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Bro glorifies CTC on a regular basis on his YouTube channel. And then this. I’m amazed by human behavior everyday.

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The thing which worked out great for me during my JEE days and college days at well. During JEE I was particularly bad at some topics so I simply left them and made my stronger points even stronger. Similarly in I found myself struggling with core electrical subjects, so I

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Tanmay Bhatt has to got to be the one of the smartest content creator He took a lot of advantage of crypto wave and made many videos in crypto and web3. Now doing the same with AI. This goes ahead to prove that majority of people will listen to someone who is famous rather

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@colecameron Really annoying

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I’ve a senior Joined an HFT straight out of college Did pretty good and made around $1M in bonus+ salary (HFTs bonuses are crazy good and depend on your performance) So yes kalpit is absolutely correct here

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50+ LPA package straight out of college can result in Rs 10-20 Cr net worth in 10 years (promotions, investments, etc). many "unicorn" founders don't have this much liquid net worth (and 99% founders don't even reach this stage). Starting up is not the only way to make it.

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Welcome to ML It turns out transformers and LLMs aren’t all you need See if you’re not dealing with a task which requires semantic understanding of context, don’t go looking out for complex solutions, such as using a transformer or LLM. XGboost might be all you need

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@catshouldnt I thought it was a big-ass mouse

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Learn what you want Pull all-nighters Be wild Build systems on hackathon Try new techs Be overly optimistic Break prod

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2023 grads have one of the best resumes I’ve seen so far for a new grad. Like seriously, the amount of projects, tech stacks and skills I’ve seen on average on a 2023 fresh grad resume is insane. Couple of years ago if I saw a resume like that which has projects mentioning

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The more I see people talk about ML and see their knowledge the more I realize why many companies keep masters or PhD degree as the minimum requirement for entry level ML jobs. The depth of knowledge for majority of folks is very shallow. Folks who claim to know ML just know

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Resume point: saved company’s processing cost by 50% and made the pipeline run 2X faster with less resources Actual changes

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@_svs_ I know a couple of folks, who after getting one offer stopped job hunting. Their joining kept getting extended and eventually offer was revoked! This is not offer "shopping", you need to primarily secure yourself as companies are not liable for any damage. And I am saying this

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@peeleraja Very nice Now let me know how you plan to teach AI/ML without teaching probability and matrices when most of ML revolves around them.

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@archiexzzz I was trying to make a text2music demo yesterday It took me 2 hours to host a gradio page with a collab notebook as backend(lol), configure all parameters and get it working I have never worked with HTML CSS

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No Indian state has all 1. Good food 2. Good public transport like Metro 3. Clean Air and Good weather 4. Kind people

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C++ is the king. If you dig deep enough into libraries, frameworks, or runtime environments, you will eventually find C++ code. Some examples that I personally encountered 1. Tensorflow: heavy computation part written in C++ 2. Flutter: dart VM is written in C++ 3. Javascript

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Many folks have asked me what are the prerequisites to starting ML. There are some must-have and good to have pre-requisites that should/can be done before starting ML Here's my list Must have Linear algebra: vector spaces, sup-spaces, linear transformation, spectral

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Maths is necessary for ML, especially Linear Algebra, but how much? Here's the list of topics(and sub-topics) from linear algebra that you MUST know if you plan to choose ML as your career 1. Scalars, Vectors, Matrices, and Tensors: Types and properties, Tensor operations,

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Majority of Indian engineers still work in WITCH(Wipro Infosys TCS, HCL) companies. And no matter how much any influencer can glorify a software engineer's salary, the median salary would still fall below 5-7 LPA for a fresher, since WITCH companies pay quite less. That's the

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@anammostarac He must be fun at parties (But I’m afraid he isn’t getting invited to any)

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Recently saw the video titled "How @zomato improved its search by identifying intent using NLP" by @arpit_bhayani and I tried to think why this particular design choice was made by Zomato. Zomato's search system identifies three primary entities: 1. Dish+Dish 2. Dish+Restaurant

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@ilyasut Need this t-shirt

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3 months

Big tech interview is basically pretending that you don’t know the answer to a question you’ve done 5 times already on LC And then pretending to think and brainstorm on it step by step and then pretending to optimize it by your critical thinking And this is how you judge

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My apartment complex in Tokyo have a lot of Indians And see most of them not following any civic manner or rules Shouting loudly in convenience stores, not standing in lines, making too much noise, shouting etc. Hardly being considerate of others. Indians have a big big civic

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IITs get good placements: companies are biased, they value tag IITs don’t get good placements: geography and skills matter, IIT is not important It’s only from an outsider’s perspective that they reduce IIT to a mere placement making machine. For people studying in IIT, they

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@4eo My boy tried My boy failed

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Okay folks, this guy is just different Has three gold medals in IOI

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I was in IIT Delhi from 2016-2020, but I hardly ever used Twitter. Why? There wasn't much of a culture of being active on the platform. None of my peers used it, so I didn't feel compelled to either. Only now do I realize how much I missed out. In the last couple of months,

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I find it amusing how easily people discount the effort of folks who are from tier 1 colleges like IIT/NIT/BITS “They have it way easier”. “Companies come to college” Like they don’t have to compete with the best minds in India and the courses and assignments are so tough. And

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@deliprao @Reuters When you look at the name of the person who wrote the article

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@gemsofbabus_ "High population" is a very convenient scapegoat. Tokyo has the world's largest population density. The footpaths are clean. It's not about population.

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@lax97981 Here’s the resume if anyone’s wondering. Not mandatory to follow me at all

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@sond813 This happened with me once while working with Japanese language The string simply wouldn’t work and I kept banging my head Turns out the UTF character was different

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You might think this is a screenshot of some MIT lecture. No. This is an AI gen image by GPT4o It seems we have almost solved the problem of text modalities being embedded in generated images.

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I always feel it was easier for me to stay disciplined during my JEE days than it has been after that. What changed exactly? Was it because I was a kid? Probably not. I think it’s because I had a fixed goal with one thing in mind. Crack JEE. Do these problems, finish these

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Posting this famous resume format here for anyone who needs it. It took me 2 seconds to Google it, so you don’t have to DM someone to ask for it. Enjoy

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I learnt to code without having a laptop(used lab computers that were available in computer labs in IIT) Then I bought a very cheap laptop with my own part time salary in second year cause that’s all I could afford. Got an intern in Yahoo, then a PPO, published 3 papers, did

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This must be noted: - Software Engineers in the US have an unfair advantage over those in poorer countries. A Macbook Pro costs 10% of a SWE's salary in the US. But it costs 100%+ of a SWE's salary in most countries around the world.

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It gets worse day by day?

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"Do open source contribution, it's the best way to get a job" The contribution: Indian folks love to run in a rat race. Sometimes it makes some sense, sometimes not at all.

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I was in the TnP cell of IITD in 2016. When seniors got placed at 20LPA+, it was considered really good. 4 years down the line, when my batch's placement came, people were unhappy with even 30LPA. 1 batch more in 2021, 40LPA+ was a basic expectation among almost all the

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@Ishansharma7390 Steve Jobs started Apple at 21. Pascal invented calculator at 19. Mr. Beast Hit 100M subscribers at 24. Kylie Jenner made a billion dollars at 21. Mark Zuckerberg was a billionaire at 23. It’s too late. Give up

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@MKBHD It doesn’t matter if you’re an atheist or not When @MKBHD does a review of your product, you pray.

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If you’re into DSA or ML or data science this post is for you. This question might be asked in ML interviews as well. So recently I held a poll on time complexity of the famous KNN algorithm. Frankly all of the people got it wrong. Straight answer for people who don’t wanna

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ML is a time taking process. You can’t get instant gratification while learning it. When I was in college it became really popular back in 2017, thanks to Andrew N’s coursera course. Almost 70% of folks I knew were trying to learn it. Fast forward to 2019 less than 10% people

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It’s crazy that we are able to get such high quality content for FREE Recently I’ve started watching long videos of harkirat for complex system design and design principles Really cool. Also makes me feel confident that I already follow many of the approaches he talks about

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@OpenAI Can’t wait to get downvoted and cursed by chatGPT

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Software Engineers looking for jobs in 2020 vs 2024

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One of the reasons I like to work from random cafes in Tokyo

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@PR0GRAMMERHUM0R 1 follower while walking through a dark alley 🗿

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I used to be pretty good in ML in college. Pretty damn good Then after college I started working and got a little sluggish I didn’t read new papers, new techniques coming everyday and that limited my ability to think and come up with new ML solutions. I was mostly focusing on

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Hey folks, turns out college degree is going to be valuable

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Write code faster. That's the only way you can grow in tech. If you write code slowly, you'll likely feel pressured and anxious, making it hard to focus on anything beyond just finishing the current task. This can become a vicious cycle - the slower you code, the more work piles

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