The MachineLearning EngineerIssue #132

This week in Issue #132:

• Machine Learning Interview Prep
• ML Data Structures with Pydantic
• Applied NLP Thinking Solutions
• Disasters in a Microservice World
• A Day in the Life of a Senior Dev
• Open Source ML Frameworks
• Awesome AI Guidelines to check out this week
• + more 🚀

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Machine Learning Interview Prep

A fantastic new resource that aims to provide comprehensive knowledge for individuals preparing for machine learning interviews. It contains a broad range of topics including the different type of jobs, the ML lifecycle, the types of companies, the types of questions, suggested timelines and much more.

ML Data Structures with Pydantic

As the intersection between software engineering and data science grows, the robustness of the tools and techniquest for interoperability becomes of growing importance. This article covers an interesting approach handling data structures and robust validation across production-ready data use-cases.

Applied NLP Thinking Solutions

An important part of any technical role is to master the ability to translate problems into digestible conceptual and tangible solutions. Explosion AI has shared a resource that covers how to adopt an “Applied NLP Thinking” methodology.

Disasters in a Microservice World

A fantastic resource relevant to MLOps practitioners, covering some “horror stories” from production microservice environments. It addresses issues such as “hype-driven development”, and covers a set of practical situations which hopefully will help other practitioners learn from and avoid.

A Day in the Life of a Senior Dev

An extremely amusing blog post covering “the life of a professional software engineer”. Although comedic, this article does emphasize the gap between expectation and reality, and is very relevant to the first resource above - specifically around addressing the gap of what one is tested on vs what one expected to do on the job.

OSS: GPU Accel. Frameworks

The topic for this week’s featured production machine learning libraries is GPU Acceleration Frameworks. We are currently looking for more libraries to add - if you know of any that are not listed, please let us know or feel free to add a PR. The four featured libraries this week are:

• Vulkan Kompute - Blazing fast, lightweight and mobile phone-enabled GPU compute framework optimized for advanced data processing usecases.
• CuPy - An implementation of NumPy-compatible multi-dimensional array on CUDA. CuPy consists of the core multi-dimensional array class, cupy.ndarray, and many functions on it.
• Jax - Composable transformations of Python+NumPy programs: differentiate, vectorize, JIT to GPU/TPU, and more
• CuDF - Built based on the Apache Arrow columnar memory format, cuDF is a GPU DataFrame library for loading, joining, aggregating, filtering, and otherwise manipulating data.

If you know of any libraries that are not in the “Awesome MLOps” list, please do give us a heads up or feel free to add a pull request!

OSS: Awesome AI Guidelines

As AI systems become more prevalent in society, we face bigger and tougher societal challenges. We have seen a large number of resources that aim to takle these challenges in the form of AI Guidelines, Principles, Ethics Frameworks, etc, however there are so many resources it is hard to navigate. Because of this we started an Open Source initiative that aims to map the ecosystem to make it simpler to navigate. You can find multiple principles in the repo - some examples include the following:

• AI & Machine Learning 8 principles for Responsible ML - The Institute for Ethical AI & Machine Learning has put together 8 principles for responsible machine learning that are to be adopted by individuals and delivery teams designing, building and operating machine learning systems
• An Evaluation of Guidelines - The Ethics of Ethics; A research paper that analyses multiple Ethics principles
• ACM’s Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct - This is the code of ethics that has been put together in 1992 by the Association for Computer Machinery and updated in 2018
• From What to How - An initial review of publicly available AI Ethics Tools, Methods and Research to translate principles into practices

If you know of any guidelines that are not in the “Awesome AI Guidelines” list, please do give us a heads up or feel free to add a pull request!