Shreya Shankar
PhD student in databases focusing on MLOps @Berkeley_EECS @UCBEPIC. Prev. 1st ML engineer @viaduct_ai, research @googlebrain, BS & MS @Stanford CS. She/they.
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Some things about machine learning products just baffle me. For example, I'm curious why computer vision APIs release "confidence scores" with generated labels. What's the business...
I have been thinking about @cHHillee's article about the state of ML frameworks in @gradientpub for almost a year now, as I've transitioned out of research to industry. It is a gre...
Beginning a thread on the ML engineer starter pack (please contribute): - ”example spark config” stackoverflow post - sklearn documentation - hatred for Airflow DAGs - awareness o...
I'm not sure if the machine learning engineer role is very well-defined. IMO, a good MLE does "full-stack" work -- owning ML end-to-end, from model development to integration in pr...
Here are some lowlights from my reading of TikTok security reports[1] (for the record, you can learn to avoid these in an intro security or privacy class): [1] https://t.co/vg96uE...
I wrote this while crying in the B40 bathroom at Google because I was going through a depressive episode. People are talking about bipolar now re: Kanye, but I don’t think there’s...
I don't identify as conservative, but this stood out: "They are not simply prevailing in the free market; they are taking advantage of a landscape that has been skewed—by the gover...
i’m willing to bet at least O(100) of you have experienced a silent failure because of numpy or broadcasting. even yesterday i found a pandas join bug because i didn’t reset the da...
Got my invite to the @OpenAI GPT-3 API from @gdb. I actually think it deserves more hype than it’s getting, but not necessarily for the magical reasons Twitter touts. Why? My quick...
Recruiting womxn engineers 👩💻 for my company is so freaking hard, and I’m really frustrated about it! Thread:
Dear ML community, read past the abstract! Before you jadedly scream "why train a gajillion parameters on a gajillion TPUs," realize that @lepikhin et al. did so much more. Thread:...
this woman and her administration are ruining students' lives. in 2017, i reported a student who had been stalking me. thanks to incentives set by Obama legislation, the Stanford...