We talked about:

Yury’s background
Failing fast: Grammarly for science
Not failing fast: Keyword recommender
Four steps to epiphany
Lesson learned when bringing XGBoost into production
When data scientists try to be engineers
Joining a fintech startup: Doing NLP with thousands of GPUs
Working at a Telco company
Having too much freedom
The importance of digital presence
Work-life balance
Quantifying impact of failing projects on our CVs
Business trips to Perm: don’t work on the weekend
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger


Links:

Yury's course: https://mlcourse.ai/
Yury's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ykashnitsky


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