Ask HN: Machine Learning Engineers, what do you do at work?

Re:Ask HN: Machine Learning Engineers, what do you do at work? by mysteria on Friday June 07, 2024 @03:13PM (#40611909)

I thought most ML engineers use their laptops as dumb terminals and just remote into a Linux GPU server.

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Re:Ask HN: Machine Learning Engineers, what do you do at work? by daemonologist on Friday June 07, 2024 @08:56PM (#40614440)

Yeah, the workday there looks pretty similar though, except that installing pytorch and pillow is usually no problem. Today it was flash-attn I spent the afternoon on.

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Re:Ask HN: Machine Learning Engineers, what do you do at work? by ungamedplayer on Saturday June 08, 2024 @12:38AM (#40615325)

Isn't this what containers are for. Someone somewhere gets it configured right and then you download and run pre setup container and add your job data ? Or am I looking at the problem wrong?

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Re:Ask HN: Machine Learning Engineers, what do you do at work? by rolisz on Saturday June 08, 2024 @12:55AM (#40615385)

But then how do you test out the latest model that came out from who knows where and has the weirdest dependencies and a super obscure command to install?

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Re:Ask HN: Machine Learning Engineers, what do you do at work? by fshbbdssbbgdd on Saturday June 08, 2024 @01:47AM (#40615553)

Just email all your data to the author and ask them to run it for you.

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Re:Ask HN: Machine Learning Engineers, what do you do at work? by davedx on Saturday June 08, 2024 @02:21AM (#40615678)

Spoiler: my main role isn’t ML engineer :) and that doesn’t sound like a bad idea at all

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