With massive layoffs, hiring freezes, and stock price crashes, this seems like a scary time — This is an SOS, Tech is coming to an end. Turns out Software Engineering is no longer a good field. Tech stocks are crashing, big companies stopped hiring, and “safe” FAANG companies have done mass layoffs. I should’ve listened to my parents and not spent all that time “playing” on…

Adding to her legacy by giving to those in need — A few hours ago, I learned that my paternal grandmother (who we call Dadima), died of Cancer. I knew she has been sick for a bit, and we knew this was coming. Even so, when I first read that message, my mind just blanked. Even now, I can’t quite articulate…

This has huge implications for the future of Machine Learning — To help me understand you fill out this survey (anonymous) Meta AI recently released Open Pretrained Transformer (OPT-175B), “a language model with 175 billion parameters trained on publicly available data sets”. While this might seem like another big company joining the LLM wars, the way they did it was a…

There are some skills you can learn to set yourself for the remote work movement. Aimed at Coders — To help me understand you fill out this survey (anonymous) Airbnb has an epic new policy. So epic, that I have decided that I am going to send in my resume to every available position. If you see my LinkedIn updated as “Sales Trainee @Airbnb”, don’t be surprised. There are…

Their new approach features partial activation and multi-task training. You don’t want to miss this. — Unless you’re living under a rock, you know of Google’s Pathways Language Model (PaLM), “a 540-billion parameter, dense decoder-only Transformer model trained with the Pathways system”. People are going insane over the functionality that the team was able to develop. …

This is one of the hardest questions you will be asked in your coding interviews — The Following is a solution for a Leetcode-Style Question that I covered in my newsletter Coding Interviews Made Simple. I have copied the solution and shared it as is so that you can get a taste of the newsletter. For more such solutions, subscribe to the newsletter. You can get…

As you can see, I’ve gotten offers in Software Development, Full-Stack Engineering, and Machine Learning. Without having to lift a finger — Just today, I got another LinkedIn DM from somebody looking to hire software engineers. This was for a very lucrative position. And instead of having to waste my time applying online, I was able to skip the line and go straight to the interview. We all know that despite the…

All these influencers are selling false promises to make money. — A month, I came across this YouTube video, titled, BUILD and SELL your own A.I Model! $500 — $10,000/month (super simple!). It was created by the popular coding YouTuber, Code with Ania Kubów. As somebody who has worked in AI (and actually sold an AI algorithm for detecting Parkinson’s Disease)…

With all the insane hype around GPT3, DALLE, PaLM, and many more, now is the perfect time to cover this paper. — Go through the Machine Learning news these days, and you will see Transformers everywhere (watch this video IBM Technology for a quick overview to the idea). And for good reason. Since their introduction, Transformers have taken the world of Deep Learning by storm. While they were traditionally associated with Natural…