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Andrey Goncharov · 2023-05-25T11:28:13.120Z

For 7 years I happily played with web. For 6 months I was burning out. Next 2 quarters I tried to reassemble myself, looked for the meaning in life and fantasized how I would switch from SWE to AI on a whim. After 3 more months, I have made barely an...

I am here, a stranger on the internet, to act as part of your self-shaming mechanism for your good.

It is now July. Did you get done by the end of June what you intended to?

Hello stranger on the internet! None of the plans worked perfectly and I am currently writing a ne wpost about it, but it the end I made it to Mistral AI as an Applied Scientist!

I recently wrote an article with the resources on how to start with the mathematics behind deep learning. Loved your article. I'm also in between a transition too 😂. After 6 months of internship it made me realise MAANG is not for me instead I wanna go for a research career

Good luck on your journey!

Really appreciate the way you laid out all the plans and the current one but I'm curious why do you want to start with calculus. BTW Professor Leonard calculus is awesome

Thank you for your kind words! I am going through calculus, linear algebra and probability in parallel. I feel that it should give me a good fundament for ML-specific courses later.

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