12 months ago I left my excellent job in an enterprise AI startup and started understanding how to apply ML to climate change. I’ve worked with 4 organizations in the past year, and I’m convinced that there’s lots of demand … Keep reading
Category: Startups
Minimal Viable Developer: acing your first month in software
It’s easy to be overwhelmed by the novelty and demands of your first software role, whether that’s an internship or a full-time position.
This is a guide to the tools, skills, and rituals you’ll encounter in a real software shop. … Keep reading
Should we install West facing solar panels?
With help from Peter Dudfield and Stephanie Willis. Code is on Github.
All of the graphs in this piece are interactive: you should be able to zoom and hover on them. They’re made and hosted by Plotly, … Keep reading
Dodging pitfalls when transitioning from academia to industry
In 2016 I finished a PhD in neuroscience and made the move to tech. Since then, I’ve worked as a data scientist and product manager in several companies. I’ve also spent a lot of time screening and interviewing candidates for … Keep reading
Things I didn’t understand about starting a company until I tried
At the end of August, my friend Pat and I decided to work on an idea he’d had: to create a company providing work from home employees with the perks that they’d enjoyed at their offices. At the start of … Keep reading
What does GPT-3 mean for AI?
The biggest AI news of 2020 so far is the success of OpenAI’s monstrous new language model, GPT-3. In … Keep reading