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<div><strong>How did you hear about SM?</strong></div><ul><li>A friend told me, seemed interesting</li></ul><div><br><strong>Brief background</strong></div><ul><li>recent immigrant from south Africa</li><li>still working remotely for a south African company</li><li>Lead DS / SWE<ul><li>leads small team of DS and DE</li><li>bridges gap btw SWE and DS</li><li>productionizing models etc</li></ul></li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong>Mentorship exs</strong></div><ul><li>manages a small team</li><li>Did some interviewing</li><li>lots of students approaching me on LI</li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong>What do beginners need and how can you help?</strong></div><ul><li>the curriculum I've seen at Univerities has gaps<ul><li>focusing on applications and not fundamentals</li></ul></li><li>Fundamentals:<ul><li>building models from scratch without libraries</li><li>"Build me a model that can do multiplication" - very hard without a good understanding</li></ul></li><li>Two things!<ul><li>Technical skills</li><li>Business value</li></ul></li><li>Problem statement - find a topic to guide as an application</li><li>Solve problems based on first principle, can you attach business value or a goal?<ul><li>break the problem into smaller steps</li><li>let's look at similar examples in the industry and apply to their problem</li><li>"Whats the least we can do?"</li><li>then help them reach the goal</li></ul></li><li>Two archetypes: some folks need hands-on support, some will use their mentor as a resource<ul><li>As long as there is an eagerness to learn and they are putting in the effort</li></ul></li></ul><div><bc-attachment content-type="application/vnd.basecamp.horizontal-rule.html"><figure class="attachment attachment--content attachment--horizontal-rule">
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</figure></bc-attachment></div><div><strong>Questions about SM:</strong></div><ul><li>What kind of ppl join the platform?</li><li>Success stories?</li></ul>
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