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! 🙂

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! 🥳