hey Rachel how's it going oh hi Siraj you mind if I could ask you
67 questions sure cool you miss your undergraduate years at Swarthmore yes. You got your Phd in math from Duke
how was that experience? it was pretty miserable what is
something you miss about where you grew up. My friends and family and delicious food.
Do you need a Phd to do machine learning research?
absolutely not what excites you the most about machine learning um I just take
all the real-world problems that can solve is really powerful what was it
like working at Uber in the early days it was it was pretty chaotic what was the
funnest part about working at Uber. I think it was it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
and it was a really interesting data set to have all the GPS data. What website you absolutely
love to spend time and I guess Twitter why do I love hate. What country do you believe will contribute the most to ML
in the next decade? oo thats a good question I think a lot of country as well. Hey Rachel what time do you usually wake up?
usually around 8 a.m. favorite machine learning paper of 2018 and I think
Leslie Smith's one cycle I also like to Nick Goepper whose data sheets for data
sets ain't up to effect II what do you do to relax like yoga and playing with
my daughter what's it like doing research as a full-time job that's a lot
of fun I really enjoy kind of like the creativity and flexibility I have we're
trying to make deep learning easier to use for people that don't can't afford
expensive computers it might not have giant data sets and are kind of all
around the world and from different backgrounds
what's your working dynamic life and its really great we're just kind of totally
on the same page and have very similar values what's the best achievement you
feel the most proud I'm really proud of our courses and just our student
successes and kind of all that companies they've launched and the projects
they've they've completed previous thing you've ever done
I think I've finished finishing my PhD in the face of kind of a lot of
uncertainty and obstacles why are there so few women in this is a big question I
think there's a lot of them there's some toxicity in the field and a lot of
related fields of math and computer science what is one thing that scares me
hmmm I think our current political situation favorite movie a clue you play
the instruments now I don't
my daughter what is something you do to relax yoga and playing with my daughter
what is something surprising about me mm I guess I grew up in Texas
do you prefer cats or dogs dogs what's a machine learning model that doesn't get
enough attention random forests favorite project used to work oh it's my my
computational linear algebra class with a lot of fun if you keep one experience
again what would it be the month I spent in Japan why do you think deep learning
has got so popular and it's really it's really useful what is your favorite
operating system I don't have a strong preference most adventurous things
you've never done it said switching into tack and moving to San Francisco getting
rid of everything I owned when I didn't know anybody out here what's one
resource you use to stay up-to-date Twitter programming language of choice
for machine learning Python favorite professor Jay Taub akhiya and Cheryl
grood from Swarthmore's math department why do you think programming is fun
it's really fun to create things it's neat to have that power to build stuff
what's the most amazing I think you question I think friendship and family
favorite comfort comfort food maybe ginger chicken and rice what was your
first program my my first program that I remember was we had to output how much
interest you would pay on a credit card just like I'll put it to the terminal
you get an all-expenses-paid trip to one country where you go I'd like to go to
Malaysia would you live on Mars I'm not sure I would visit what is one thing you
can't a high quality pillow what is one skill you wish you had
better negotiation skills what text editor do you use then what open-source
library do you really like hi torch and the fast day I library there was a hard
problem you recently saw um dealing with brain surgery what's the meaning of life
I think to to love the people around you and to try to have a positive impact
what is one piece of advice you'd give yourself 10 years ago it's okay it's
okay to be happy now you spend more time on the internet or real life might be
close maybe real life what's something you've learned in the past month
hmm
yeah I've been learning a lot more about ethical issues and kind of
disinformation and propaganda do you like spicy food yes what is the movie
that made you cry big hero six if you ran the world what is one law you've
enact a universal health care is the singularity near now who is one person
you looked up to when you were in college I looked up to David Eddie who's
a healthcare evidence-based health care proponent if you were to start from
scratch today what is the Learning Resource you would use to learn machine
learning it may be biased but a fast AI practical deep learning for coders what
is one goal you have in the next 10 years really to kind of continue doing
what I'm doing favorite subject in school when you were growing up math if
you could be a superhero who would it be um penny from Inspector Gadget what's
your spirit animal and be a squirrel what do you predict comes next after the
deep learning height and I think the deep learning is gonna keep going for a
while we still have so much potential to unlock there Rachel thanks so much for
answering these questions well thank you I'll see you around
Thanks
you