Developer Advocacy Engineer for Open-Source - Merve Noyan
We talked about:
00:00 DataTalks.Club intro
02:02 Merve’s background
06:30 Merve’s first contributions to open source
12:27 What Merve currently does at Hugging Face (Hub, Spaces)
18:07 What is means to be a developer advocacy engineer at Hugging Face
25:04 The best way to get open source experience (Google Summer of Code, Hacktoberfest, and sprints)
30:02 The peculiarities of hiring as it relates to code contributions
38:02 Best resources to learn about NLP besides Hugging Face
43:01 Good first projects for NLP
46:19 The most important topics in NLP right now
49:23 NLP ML Engineer vs NLP Data Scientist
51:12 Project recommendations and other advice to catch the eye of recruiters
55:49 Merve on Twitch and her podcast
57:42 Finding Merve online
58:14 Merve and Mario Kart
Links:
Hugging Face Course: https://hf.co/course
Natural Language Processing in TensorFlow: https://www.coursera.org/learn/natura...
Github ML Poetry: https://github.com/merveenoyan/ML-poetry
Tackling multiple tasks with a single visual language model: https://www.deepmind.com/blog/tacklin...
Hugging Face big science/TOpp: https://huggingface.co/bigscience/T0pp
Pathways Language Model (PaLM) blog: https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/04/pat...
MLOps Zoomcamp: https://github.com/DataTalksClub/mlop...
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