Ask HN: Engineers from non-CS background, how did you pivot into ML/AI?

Re:Ask HN: Engineers from non-CS background, how did you piv... by daniellemswank on Monday December 31, 2018 @10:47AM (#18794984)

I've hired about half a dozen ML engineers/architects in the past six months. Several of them have EE backgrounds. There's a good bit of ML that touches on hardware (think integrated cameras and similar) so it can be really helpful.

You're mostly on track with your plan to build something. You do need to demonstrate that you have the skill set, but building one giant thing isn't the answer. There's so much that goes into building a giant thing, that I can't accurately access your ML skills.

Ideally I like to see a lot of small things over a reasonable amount of time. Someone with a solid GitHub showing 6-12 months of paper implementations, weekend geez-wiz hacks and various other projects would go right to the top of my call back list.

Hope that helps, good luck with the job search.

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Re:Ask HN: Engineers from non-CS background, how did you piv... by ultrasounder on Monday December 31, 2018 @12:57PM (#18795848)

Thanks!. I think https://fomoro.com/projects/project/reverse-image-search this has provided me some motivation. Also just subscribed to your meetup. I will try to make it to the next meetup on the 8th as i am just about starting with GANs in my udacity PyTorch course. Thanks for organizing this meetup. I will leave the link for folks from Bay Area to follow-up. https://www.meetup.com/deep-learning-sf/

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Re:Ask HN: Engineers from non-CS background, how did you piv... by 773js on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @04:34PM (#18802531)

Your work looks interesting, would you mind if I sent you an email via the Contact Us page on your website? I'd love a chance to try to get on that call back list.

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