👋 Hi, I'm Eugene Yan

I design, build, and operate machine learning systems that serve customers at scale. Currently, I'm an Applied Scientist at Amazon. Outside of work, I also...

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• 03 Oct 2021  ·  RecSys 2021 - Papers and Talks to Chew on

• 19 Sep 2021  ·  The First Rule of Machine Learning: Start without Machine Learning

• 15 Sep 2021  ·  MLOps Community - System Design for RecSys & Search

• 05 Sep 2021  ·  Reinforcement Learning for Recommendations and Search

• 02 Aug 2021  ·  Amazon Science - Eugene Yan and the Art of Writing about Science

• 19 Sep 2021  ·  The First Rule of Machine Learning: Start without Machine Learning

• 24 Jan 2021  ·  You Don't Really Need Another MOOC

• 25 Oct 2020  ·  Data Discovery Platforms and Their Open Source Solutions

• 09 Aug 2020  ·  Unpopular Opinion - Data Scientists Should be More End-to-End

• 21 Jun 2020  ·  How to Set Up a Python Project For Automation and Collaboration

• 05 Apr 2020  ·  Stop Taking Regular Notes; Use a Zettelkasten Instead

• 26 Jan 2019  ·  Data Science and Agile (What Works, and What Doesn't)

• 28 Feb 2021  ·  How to Write Better with The Why, What, How Framework

• 22 Nov 2020  ·  What Machine Learning Can Teach Us About Life - 7 Lessons

• 09 Jul 2020  ·  The 85% Rule - When Giving It Your 100% Gets You Less than 85%

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  applied-ml: Papers on real-world machine learning

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  ml-surveys: Papers summarizing machine learning advances

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  applyingml: Papers, guides, and interviews on how to apply ML effectively

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  ml-design-docs: Template of design docs for machine learning systems

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  testing-ml: Example tests for machine learning systems

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  python-collab-template: Template with tests, type checks, linting, etc.

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  recsys-nlp-graph: Simple Recsys and experiment results

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  papermill-mlflow: Experimentation workflow for machine learning

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  omscs-faq: Georgia Tech Online Master's of Science in Computer Science

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  teardowns: Surveys & deep dives of data/machine learning systems