Category: newsletter

After a lot of thought, I’ve decided to stop publishing my weekly newsletter for the time being. It wasn’t an easy decision to make, but I feel that it’s the right one for me, given where I’m at in my… Read More

A common belief is that individual contributors (IC) in technical roles who transition into management have to sacrifice the amount of technical work they perform. To some extent, I think this is true, at least in the sense of the… Read More

This week a data scientist on my team discovered a pretty bad bug in one of our production applications. While it’s important to diagnose and fix every bug, what made this bug special was how it was diagnosed. The data… Read More

Last week I wrote that companies fall into one of two groups when it comes to machine learning and data science. The first class contains companies where ML/DS is a core competency. Without their machine learning models, datasets, and expertise,… Read More

The data scientist role is one of the most sought after jobs in technology today. However, it’s also one of the most misunderstood. And this contributes to a lot of the dissatisfaction that many data scientists experience in industry. I… Read More

After a several week hiatus, the newsletter is back! I’ve been pretty busy moving across the country (super happy to be a San Diego resident 😀 ) and tending to my now 6 month old firstborn (I can’t believe it’s… Read More

As a Data Scientist who works on machine learning at scale, I’m constantly on the lookout for best practices and resources to help me become a better machine learning practitioner. Although I often come across very helpful information in the… Read More