Radek Osmulski is a fully self-taught machine learning engineer. After getting tired of his corporate job, he taught himself programming and started a new career as a Ruby on Rails developer. He then set out to learn machine learning. Since then, he's been a Fast AI International Fellow, become a Kaggle Master, and is now an AI Data Engineer on the Earth Species Project. Learn more about Radek: https://www.radekosmulski.com (https://www.radekosmulski.com) https://twitter.com/radekosmulski (https://twitter.com/radekosmulski) Every Thursday I send out the most useful things I’ve learned, curated specifically for the busy machine learning engineer. Sign up here: http://cyou.ai/newsletter (http://cyou.ai/newsletter) Follow Charlie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CharlieYouAI (https://twitter.com/CharlieYouAI) Subscribe to ML Engineered: https://mlengineered.com/listen (https://mlengineered.com/listen) Comments? Questions? Submit them here: http://bit.ly/mle-survey (http://bit.ly/mle-survey) Take the Giving What We Can Pledge: https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/ (https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/)

Timestamps: 02:15 How Radek got interested in programming and computer science 09:00 How Radek taught himself machine learning 26:40 The skills Radek learned from Fast AI 39:20 Radek's recommendations for people learning ML now 51:30 Why Radek is writing a book 01:01:20 Radek's work at the Earth Species Project 01:10:15 How the ESP collects animal language data 01:21:05 Rapid fire questions

Links: https://gumroad.com/l/learn_deep_learning (Radek's Book "Meta-Learning") https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning (Andrew Ng ML Coursera) https://www.fast.ai (Fast AI) https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.06146 (Universal Language Model Fine-tuning for Text Classification) https://www.kdnuggets.com/2018/03/machine-learning-efficiently.html (How to do Machine Learning Efficiently) https://www.npr.org/2020/02/25/809336135/two-heartbeats-a-minute (NPR - Two Heartbeats a Minute) https://www.earthspecies.org/ (Earth Species Project) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5617966-a-guide-to-the-good-life (A Guide to the Good Life) https://store.hbr.org/product/the-origin-of-wealth-evolution-complexity-and-the-radical-remaking-of-economics/777X (The Origin of Wealth) https://maketime.blog (Make Time) https://plumvillage.org/books/you-are-here/ (You Are Here)