We talked about:
- Merve’s background
- Merve’s first contributions to open source
- What Merve currently does at Hugging Face (Hub, Spaces)
- What is means to be a developer advocacy engineer at Hugging Face
- The best way to get open source experience (Google Summer of Code, Hacktoberfest, and sprints)
- The peculiarities of hiring as it relates to code contributions
- Best resources to learn about NLP besides Hugging Face
- Good first projects for NLP
- The most important topics in NLP right now
- NLP ML Engineer vs NLP Data Scientist
- Project recommendations and other advice to catch the eye of recruiters
- Merve on Twitch and her podcast
- Finding Merve online
- Merve and Mario Kart
Links:
- Hugging Face Course: https://hf.co/course
- Natural Language Processing in TensorFlow: https://www.coursera.org/learn/natural-language-processing-tensorflow
- Github ML Poetry: https://github.com/merveenoyan/ML-poetry
- Tackling multiple tasks with a single visual language model: https://www.deepmind.com/blog/tackling-multiple-tasks-with-a-single-visual-language-model
- Hugging Face big science/TOpp: https://huggingface.co/bigscience/T0pp
- Pathways Language Model (PaLM) blog: https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/04/pathways-language-model-palm-scaling-to.html
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