The trouble of NOT GOOD ENOUGH

👆 Nothing has prevented me from learning more quickly than my relationship with the above.

The answer is to embrace being poor at something, but it is easier said than done 🙂

I wrote a newsletter on this, maybe it can be of help 🙂

https://skilled-producer-2681.ck.page/posts/the-problem-with-not-good-enough

It is my great pleasure to share with you that today I became a 2x Kaggle Grandmaster 🥳

Feels surreal that this should happen 🙏

I recorded a short video on how it feels to become a Kaggle GM (and what I plan to do next) 🙂

Link to video: https://youtu.be/cQXm_p_6xVY

It is most certainly one of my least serious productions... thus far 😄

Hope it maybe puts a smile on your face! 🙂

It is my great pleasure to share with you that today I became a Kaggle Grandmaster 🥳

Feels surreal that this should happen 🙏

My recent discovery is that indeed I DO NEED a mastermind group.

Or a group of friends that will support each other in personal growth and the pursuit of their goals.

I need to be a part of such a group because it is great for me.

And so do you.

I speak more about my experience and how to get such a group of people in this video: https://youtu.be/KEVeMunS0Jc

"Mastermind group" sounds gimmicky, but this idea is really valuable 🙏

I recorded a brief introduction to the OTTO RecSys competition on Kaggle!

We start with the baseline and build on top of it by progressively adding more advanced ideas:

• co-visitation matrix
• manual reranking
• reranking using a model
• word2vec & matrix factorization for candidate generation and scoring

Meant as a brief introduction both to the OTTO competition and a couple of foundational ideas in RecSys.

Here it is: https://youtu.be/gtPEX_eRAVo

Hope you find it a good watch! 🙂

Mastodon feels more personal...

So I find myself feeling I have to feel more about what I write here and then end up not writing anything 🙃 Not ideal -- need to fix this.

But in case this might be of interest to you, I did an AMA on YouTube today! 🥳

We discussed:
• learning ML
• getting a DL job
• kaggling

Please find it here: https://youtu.be/qjWZvdo7PYA

Here are the topics we discussed:

New Kaggle competition just launched! 🥳

Small, clean tabular dataset so you can jump right in on any hardware!

To get you up and running quickly, I prepared an EDA notebook (EDA, training, submission): https://www.kaggle.com/code/radek1/eda-training-a-first-model-submission

And also recorded a short video on the competition: https://youtu.be/cIFRuaQy2Ow

Hope you enjoy! 🙂 Happy Kaggling! 🥳

I said I would be more personal on here, so here it goes 🙂

I am experimenting with creating videos -- ideally, I would like the process to feel for me just like blogging or tweeting.

But I am starting from scratch and I absolutely love this experience!

How emotionally challenging it is to do things outside your comfort zone.

How your perception changes as you learn.

If you are interested in how things are going, here is the 1st video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bih0HLxemts