Published inTowards AI·Oct 5, 2022Member-onlyJobs in Data: What the Data Tells Us About Skills And SalariesA brief analysis of over 9000 job specs for UK data professionals — It’s an interesting time for job hunting. The Great Resignation, spawned in that brief post-pandemic period of soaring demand and personal re-evaluation, has tumbled into a murky mess of inflation and recession. …Data6 min readData6 min read
Published inTowards AI·Oct 5, 2022Member-onlyHow To Use AWS for Web ScrapingUsing AWS Batch for scalable scraping — A few months ago, I decided to leave my job to go traveling. A summer adventure ensued, and then, in a flash, I found myself back in drizzly London, ready to consider my re-entry into the job market. …AWS10 min readAWS10 min read
Published inTowards AI·Oct 5, 2022Member-onlyHow To Automate Job Searches With PythonA quick introduction to using the Reed API to access job listings — A few months ago, I decided to leave my job to go traveling. A summer adventure ensued, and then, in a flash, I found myself back in drizzly London, ready to consider my re-entry into the job market. …API4 min readAPI4 min read
Published inTowards AI·Apr 17, 2022Member-onlyTransformers: What Are They and How Can I Make One?A simple summary of Transformers for NLP tasks, and a guide to making a Transformer for text generation with PyTorch. — If you’re interested in machine learning, you’ve probably noticed that text generation has been something of a hot topic for the last few years. Elon Musk’s GPT models, and most recently Google’s PaLM model, belong to a surge of generalized language models that can tackle anything from translation to text…Machine Learning17 min readMachine Learning17 min read
