How do you develop your personal brand?

Gilad Tsehori — Sun, 07 Jul 2019 19:42:43 +0000

Nowadays, many software developers, creators, entrepreneurs and managers in the industry (in the Bay and outside of it) are trying to promote their own personal brand or aspire to do so, in order to achieve many goals such as: securing a better position where they work, prove themselves as an expert in some field, get a better job elsewhere, promote their own company/product etc.

Many do it using many different tools and techniques, such as writing tech blogs, hosting a podcast, speak at conferences, tweet, network with specific individuals, actively participate in chats and forums, and many more.

What do you think about it? Do you actively trying to promote yourself? If you do, then how and what are your goals, and if you don't, then why?

Do you need to understand Machine Learning?

Gilad Tsehori — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 11:50:32 +0000

While most programmers are able to utilize a simple machine learning or deep learning library/module (scikit-learn for instance) in their code, many are unaware of how these libraries work behind the scenes, why do they work etc.

It is clear that if a software developer wanted to pursue a career in Data Science he would need to study the algorithms and models (and relevant math).
But, what about the average programmer that occasionally needs to implement face recognition/dog detection/you name it in his web app?

Do you think that he needs to understand the models he uses, and if so, to what extent? Or just understanding the outputs of the algorithms is good enough?

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How do you develop your personal brand?

Do you need to understand Machine Learning?