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Mimansa Jaiswal @mimansaj.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I interviewed for LLM/ML research scientist/engineering positions last Fall. Over 200 applications, 100 interviews, many rejections & some offers later, I decided to write the process down, along with the resources I used. Links to the process & resources in the following tweets

OCR'ed text from screenshot of top of post: LLM (ML) Job Interviews (Fall 2024) - Process A retelling of my experience interviewing for ML/LLM research science/engineering focused roles in Fall 2024. This post has two parts: Job Search Mechanics (including context, applying, and industry information), which you can continue reading below, and, Preparation Material and Overview of Questions, which you can read at LLM (ML) Job Interviews - Resources Disclaimer Last Updated: Dec 24, 2024 This is the process I used, which may work differently for you depending on your circumstances. I am writing this in December 2024, and the process occurred during Fall 2024. Given how rapidly the field of LLMs evolves, this information might become outdated quickly, but the general principles should remain relevant. (more...) Read at: https://mimansajaiswal.github.io/posts/llm-ml-job-interviews-fall-2024-process/

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Obsessed with the work coming out of Finale Doshi-Velez's group; they don't just take the limits of the real world for ML deployment seriously but instead turn it into new algorithmic ideas arxiv.org/abs/2406.08636

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Towards Integrating Personal Knowledge into Test-Time Predictions

Machine learning (ML) models can make decisions based on large amounts of data, but they can be missing personal knowledge available to human users about whom predictions are made. For example, a mode...

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Mimansa Jaiswal @mimansaj.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Ooh, I'd love to read this. I have mine here: mimansajaiswal.github.io/posts/mac-so... . I am currently testing out Atuin. I typically don't add new tools to my workflow until I've used them for at least a year or feel confident that I will continue using them long-term.

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What softwares do I actually use on my Mac as a software enthusiast? • Mimansa Jaiswal

With several years of using a Mac, it took me time to settle down on a set of apps and softwares that I can heartily recommend. I try almost 30 a month, but end up using around 20 in total for everyth...

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Mimansa Jaiswal @mimansaj.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Definitely sponsored by Big Cupcake. Did you know Big Cupcake and Big Muffin are different AND competing corporations? 😃

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 01/02/2025

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

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Ai2 @ai2.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Can AI really help with literature reviews? 🧐 Meet Ai2 ScholarQA, an experimental solution that allows you to ask questions that require multiple scientific papers to answer. It gives more in-depth and contextual answers with table comparisons and expandable sections 💡 Try it now: scholarqa.allen.ai

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Mimansa Jaiswal @mimansaj.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I wrote this a month back, kinda knowing what was coming, hoping for the best, expecting the worst. My cats are wondering why I have been extra cuddly lately 😅

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

It is such a slap in the face to the Indian American community to delay their green cards for decades and then declare that because of that delay their American children aren't citizens.

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Mimansa Jaiswal @mimansaj.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

EB2 currently has an expected wait time of around 20+ years (around 24+ years after landing in US including H1B+filing time). Even EB1 for indians currently has 4ish years wait time (which you need a 5 year PhD to qualify for, and then an H1B, usually ending up being 10+ years since landing in US) 😅

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Mimansa Jaiswal @mimansaj.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Is it time for a social media break again? It has not been a great day. 😅

Mimansa Jaiswal @mimansaj.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Yeah, I do like their rotis. I do not like their parathas or naans though. But they save so much time. Also, apparently vadilal makes great frozen roomali rotis? I just tried them out, and they are awesome!

Mimansa Jaiswal @mimansaj.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Naan tacos? I want to start making more bread honestly, I am not used to it, so I end up eating just the salad, and then I crave chewy carbs 😅 (though haldiram's frozen roomali roti has been helping).

Mimansa Jaiswal @mimansaj.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Tbf the LLM gave me the answer 🫣. I just had to ask it again.

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Mimansa Jaiswal @mimansaj.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

You can use in MacOS osascript -e 'set the clipboard to (POSIX file "/path/to/your/file")'

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Mimansa Jaiswal @mimansaj.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Sorry, not into a subscription based recipe app.

Mimansa Jaiswal @mimansaj.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Yeah, I like trying out apps for fun, but I make sure not to use multiple apps, or to replace an app if need be.

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Mimansa Jaiswal @mimansaj.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

This is pretty cool! Learn more: developer.chrome.com/docs/devtool... (seems to cover CSS and network requests, which might be fun to lay around with)

AI innovations tab in developer tools settings in Chrome

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Yoav Goldberg @yoavgo.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

i was annoyed at having many chrome tabs with PDF papers having uninformative titles, so i created a small chrome extension to fix it. i'm using it for a while now, works well. today i put it on github. enjoy. github.com/yoavg/pdf-ta...

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

It's ready! 💫 A new blog post in which I list of all the tools and apps I've been using for work, plus all my opinions about them. maria-antoniak.github.io/2024/12/30/o... Featuring @kagi.com, @warp.dev, @paperpile.bsky.social, @are.na, Fantastical, @obsidian.md, Claude, and more.

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Maggie Appleton @maggieappleton.com · 31/12/2024

I've always wanted to build things with D3, but the learning curve was too high. At least for the bespoke stuff I wanted to make (not just simple bar charts). I can finally make things like this thanks to Cursor! I just art directed this, and it made everything work beautifully. Even on mobile 🎉

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Iirc you use Android, if you add your boarding pass to your wallet, many airlines update that and if they don't, Google updates the gate info based off their internal Google flights tracking API too!

I am surprised you do not use Raycast 😅 At this point, I do not think I can live without raycast 🫣

Oh, and recs for keyboard: Moonlander (saved my partner from wrist pain). For monitor, you need high ppi (>200) to feel the same as retina monitors. Any monitor in that range will feel similar (including studio display)

I wish I liked obsidian (I have tried it 10 times till now 😭, I like rich text block based writing). You might want to check out morgen in place of things+fantastical btw.

Ooh this is fun! I need to check out potato soon (iirc it is developed by people from UMich!). You might like schej instead of when2meet, and you might like spark for email (unsure if it supports microsoft mail), and you might like noor instead of slack (has a generous free plan)

For me, it is just the presence of most people I care to read opinions of, the timing with which things are tweeted out (for example the deepseek v3 paper details), and existence of an algorithmic feed (I am not a fan of chronological feeds). At this point, I just use it to consume content.

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I really like this! Did you document your LLM conversations somewhere?

I haven't had words to describe this behavior, but being able to discount general instructions for immediate context and knowing when to perform that operation is one of the things that makes LLM chatbots so helpful, else, we'd be stuck opening 10 different conversations with copy-pasted context.

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Ah, I think I didn't come around to blogs for a long time. I wonder if she wrote a head first LLMs book, what would that look like!