When the Light at the End of the Tunnel is an Oncoming Train: Notes from an Applied Scientist

Posted on Thu 11 September 2025 in posts • Tagged with career, applied-science, lessons-learned

Lessons learned from two years as an Applied Scientist at Amazon - on anchoring to truth, managing complexity, and staying sane in production


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Automating Backup to External Drives

Posted on Sun 05 July 2020 in posts • Tagged with scripts

Automating backup


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Paper Summary - Rapid Learning or Feature Reuse?

Posted on Mon 23 December 2019 in posts • Tagged with meta-learning, paper-summary

Rapid Learning or Feature Reuse? Towards Understanding the Effectiveness of MAML (NeurIPS Workshop on Meta Learning 2019)


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Deriving the MAML Objective - 2

Posted on Thu 14 November 2019 in posts • Tagged with meta-learning

Mean Squared Error


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Deriving the MAML Objective - 1

Posted on Tue 05 November 2019 in posts • Tagged with meta-learning


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