You’ll see articles and papers coming out every day about new machine learning methods. Ignore them. There’s no way to keep up with them all and it’ll only hold you back from getting your foundations set. Most of the best machine learning techniques have been around for decades. What’s changed has been an increase in computing power and the availability of data. Don’t be distracted by the new.Thinking of Self-Studying Machine Learning? Remind yourself of these 6 things
What you should be looking for to make your teams better is diversity of backgrounds and life experiences. Hire people across every privilege spectrum, because that is what actually gets you diverse perspectives and understandings of people’s needs.Open Letter To Tech Companies: Please Raise Your Bar
If your cash is limited, try to see what you and your team are already doing and then hire people to take those jobs. It may sound counterintuitive, but if you’re already doing it presumably it needs to be done, you have a good sense of the type of skills required to do it, and you can bring someone on-board and get them up to speed quickly. That then frees you up to focus on tasks that can’t be done by someone else.Early Challenges: Making Critical Hires
