ternaus

A couple comments:

[1] Anthony talks about library for image augmentations that was born in machine learning competitions. The library called https://albumentations.ai/ . Kaggle Grandmaster and 3 Kaggle masters are the members of the core team. The library is used in most of winning solutions to the computer vision challenges, including the Deepfake challenge with $1,000,000 prize.

[2] He mentiones a story on how Kaggler over the weekend beated Researchers that worked on the problem for months. Details: https://ternaus.blog/career/2020/01/08/How-I-Found-my-curren...

Hello.

I am one of the hosts for the Lyft Prediction for Auotnomous Vehicles at Kaggle.

Feel free to ask questions here, or at https://www.kaggle.com/c/lyft-motion-prediction-autonomous-v...

It is an interesting problem. I do not know what approach will be the best in this task. It could be heuristics, Computer Vision, Kalman Filters, something else.

If you are interested in the Autonomous technology I would recommend participating.

Every book that about better writing that I read, talks about this.

Cut all the clutter, use simpler words, be personal. Do not write in a way that you do not talk.

For example, first few chapters of the book

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53343.On_Writing_Well

talk in details on the topic.

It is true that for some many it is challenging to have a high quality online course.

I believe some courses could be taken online. For example, here is an amazing course on Algorithms and Data Structures by Robert Sedgewick https://www.coursera.org/learn/algorithms-part1? at Coursera. It works really well for the online format. So, not all online classes suck.

My major was Physics and I was teaching all five years of the Graduate school. I do not have a slightest clue how is it possible to teach Physics remotely at the acceptable quality.

Does anyone have a problem with getting into reading?

My problem is not about making myself read, but how to find time for all the technical and business skills that I need to read.

And I am not even talking about fiction books, that I want to read, but put aside for now.

I am more curious to see how other people find time for reading?

Business oriented books I tend to listen as audio books while driving. But technical literature could not be addressed this way.

Being personal may help.

When I get at work a message like:

"VP XXX is very interested in your feedback, it would be great if you spend 15 minutes and fill the form". I delete the email.

"Very interested in your feedback" and mass email do not work well. In addition I do not feel that my feedback given in this way will affect anything.

I do not think that it is your problem. You say that it is not a matter of trust, but I am 100% sure that it is.

I give honest feedback at 1-1 meetings.

By the way, did you read https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52283963-the-mom-test

and

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1317946.Managing_Humans

? It could help :)

Jon Haidt talks about it for a while.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gatn5ameRr8

I would recommend the book:

The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36556202-the-coddling-of...

I tried to learn how to meditate a few times. It did not work so far.

A few friends told me that they have a similar problem, but after Vipassana they were able to get the idea and started meditating regularly.

Sadly the pandemic made all the Vipassana places to close.

I hope that in 6 months they will start to reopen.

I am the author of the article.

If you find inaccuracies feel free to comment. I wrote the text based on how it looks from my eyes and it could be heavily biased.

I would be also happy to answer the questions here, if needed.

You may go to academia for a PhD if you do not have one, or postdoctoral position if you have.

Academia and industry a different bubbles it may happen that your time there would be more satisfying, at least for some time.

I use Linux for more than 15 years and it is the first time I learned that such a thing as a reflink exists.

I use DVC for about a year on relatively large datasets (my expertise in Computer Vision and images are pretty heavy). I was always curious to know what is happening under the hood of the DVC, when it deals with the data in such a way that it is fast and cache is not corrupted.