A Journey from Software to Machine Learning Engineer

 By KDnuggets - 2020-12-10

Description

In this blog post, the author explains his journey from Software Engineer to Machine Learning Engineer. The focus of the blog post is on the areas that the author wished he'd have focused on during hi ...

Summary

  • In this blog post, the author explains his journey from Software Engineer to Machine Learning Engineer.
  • I have then always had a great interest in data, and about two years ago I made the decision that I wanted that to be my main job.
  • I’ve already hinted at what was coming next, and it is widely known that getting the correct data is a hard part of an ML problem.
  • Depending on how “bad” is it to predict true when it is actually false (a.k.a False Positive) or any variation like this, you might want to keep a minimum precision or recall, regardless of how your general metric (say, ROC-AUC) goes up or down.

 

Topics

  1. Machine_Learning (0.42)
  2. Backend (0.32)
  3. Management (0.17)

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