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by dawndrain 1746 days ago
> I was hoping for more DS related stuff. It almost sounds like you're learning to be a SWE!

It kind of felt that way too :). Some more data sciency things were learning how transformers work, hacking pytorch, using visualization tools like tensorboard and wandb, web scraping, better using parallelism, tuning hyperparameters (mostly the learning rate tbh), better fluency with the command line than I assume most swe's need, getting very comfortable inspecting data, making experiments more reproducible, reading lots of papers, writing papers, and trying (somewhat half-heartedly) to get published.