How to navigate the jump successfully and prove to interviewers that you’ll be a great hire — In 2016 I finished a PhD in neuroscience and made the move to tech. Since then, I’ve worked as a data scientist and product manager in several companies. I’ve also spent a lot of time screening and interviewing candidates for data science roles. I frequently receive questions about how to…

Disclaimer: this post concerns two things about which I don’t know very much: economics and climate policy. If you’d rather read something I’m supremely qualified to talk about, try this post on rookie errors I’ve made in my machine learning career. Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, created the most…

Olya is the CEO of Frost Methane, a startup which “flares” (burns) methane. Flaring reduces methane’s warming potential by 28x by turning it into methane’s more famous but less-warming cousin, CO2. …

3 ways in which GPT-3 changes the rules for companies building software with AI — The biggest AI news of 2020 so far is the success of OpenAI’s monstrous new language model, GPT-3. In this post, I’m going to quickly summarize why GPT-3 has caused such a splash, before highlighting 3 consequences for individuals and companies building things with AI. GPT-3: a very brief primer Why are people excited about…

This time last year, my co-founder Pat and I had a full schedule, and most of it revolved around work. Between the corporate frisbee league, the employer-sponsored HIIT classes, and the weekly company pick-up soccer game, we were seeing a lot of our colleagues. …

During the pandemic, Statistics Canada has been compiling data on how peoples’ work habits have shifted. We’ve been digging into this data, and in this post we’re going to share some insights and discuss how we think these trends will develop throughout the rest of 2020. How has the % of remote work changed? Prior to February 1st…

Over the past three years, I’ve spent >50% of my time thinking about what the applied research teams I’ve been part of should be building, and how. This post is about some of the challenges I’ve faced helping to organize applied machine learning research in a hyper-growth setting. These observations…

Analyzing wine consumption and coronavirus cases in Quebec during lockdown — with Claudel Rheault At the end of March, Quebec’s Premier Francois Legault’s message to the people was clear: stay inside. But he didn’t stop there, offering a tongue-in-cheek remedy to the anxiety of lockdown: “a glass of wine may help”. Since SAQ (Quebec’s central wine stores) remains open as an essential business, we…

A tool to help you understand how your actions affect the spread of coronavirus in your community — with Salman Mohammed, Claudel Rheault, and Patrick Steeves Update 19/03/20: thanks to lots of fantastic feedback, we’ve now released V2 of the tool, which brings historical case data per day for your country, better graphs, and a breakdown of forecast mortality by age! It’s still at https://corona-calculator.herokuapp.com ✌️