joelgrus

Until yesterday I was using a Lenovo Thinkpad Carbon X1 running Ubuntu 22.04. It was an awful combination (microphone didn't work, nubbin stopped working, touchpad had to be replaced, keyboard had dodgy keys, battery life was bad, Chrome wouldn't start unless you added some mystery command-line options, etc, etc, etc.)

Yesterday I got a new ASUS Zenbook running Windows 11 (and I added Ubuntu in WSL2). So far so good, it seems like I can do my coding stuff on the linux subsystem but then have desktop apps and peripherals on the windows side that just work. This is the first time I've had my personal computer be a Windows machine in like 20 years, so we'll see how it goes.

I used to work as a SWE at Google, and we sometimes "joked" that the process ("here's a list of computer science topics, we expect you to know all of them, take as long as you want to prepare") was designed to identify insecure overachievers.

I dropped out of PhD school, and I have a more interesting life than most of my friends who stayed. :)

I appreciate that you like the site and want to clone it, but it's extremely poor form (and extremely misleading) to give your clone the same name.

The language model is GPT-2 (small).

The underlying library is called "pytorch-pretrained-BERT" because initially it just contained an implementation of BERT, but now it contains implementations of several models so they backronym-ed it to "Big-&-Extending-Repository-of-Transformers". :)

AllenNLP dev here. We're going to do a "PyTorch 1.0" release of AllenNLP next week, and then after that we're planning to investigate how to incorporate the new "production" aspects.

I went through this same thought process a few years ago. I basically gave myself a crash course in CS and engineering and "reinvented" / positioned myself as a software engineer.

I left my data science job and spent a couple of years as a "pure" software engineer and now am a "research engineer" which is basically a software engineer who understands machine learning and deep learning.

By and large I'm very happy with the move (other than that the company I quit as a data scientist got acquired and I would have made more $$$ if I'd stayed).

I interviewed at Amazon (bad experience), got rejected (long story), and then TWO MONTHS LATER got contacted by an Amazon recruiter: "We need people like you!"

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