From Physics to Machine Learning - Tatiana Gabruseva

We talked about: Tatiana’s background 12 career hacks and changing career Hack #1: Change your social circle Hack #2: Forget your fears and stereotypes Hack #3: Forget distractions Hack #4: Don’t overestimate others and don’t underestimate yourself Hack #5: Attention genius Hack #6: Make a team Hack #7: Less is more. Forget about perfectionism Hack #8: Initial creation Hack #9: Find mentors Hack #10: Say “no” Hack #11: Look for failures Hack #12: Take care of yourself Kaggle vs internships and pet projects Resources for learning machine learning Starting with Kaggle Improving focus Astroinformatics How background in Physics is helpful for transitioning Leaving academia Preparing for interviews Links: Mock interviews: https://www.pramp.com/ Learning ML: https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning and https://www.coursera.org/specializations/deep-learning Python: https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning-with-python  SQL: https://www.sqlhabit.com/  Practice: https://www.kaggle.com/ MIT 6.006: https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.006/fall11/notes.shtml Coding: https://leetcode.com/ System design: https://www.educative.io/courses/grokking-the-system-design-interview Ukrainian telegram groups for interview preparation: https://t.me/FaangInterviewChannel,  https://t.me/FaangTechInterview, https://t.me/FloodInterview Join DataTalks.Club: https://datatalks.club/slack.html