This week we spoke to Deborah, who split her PEY between 12 months at Clarifai in New York City and 4 months at the MIT Media Lab! Notes: 1:20 - getting into engineering, previous work experience and first jobs at JR Deep and with Project Include, becoming interesting in working in tech 3:45 - developing skills through attending lots of hackathons, attending TechCrunch Disrupt! 6:20 - learning about Clarifai in NYC and computer vision in school, deciding on doing PEY 10:00 - Embarking on a campaign to find a job at a startups, getting a job at Clarifai 13:00 - Work experience at Clarifai, startup work culture 18:10 - Transitioning to a role that felt more like a full-time position 20:05 - Living in Manhattan, moving to Brooklyn 22:20 - Neighborhood culture, comparing Toronto, Ottawa, and NYC, having space for personal growth 27:42 - Summer research at MIT Media Lab, "anti-disciplinary research" 30:45 - Finding out about the researcher through a TED Talk, research in algorithmic/data bias 36:17 - Other things going on at the lab, prosthetics, "do-ocracy" vs a meritocracy 39:58 - Constraints of industry vs. research, justifying research, corporate sponsored research 43:20 - Life outside of work, meeting cool hip musical friends in Cambridge 45:24 - Differences between MIT and UofT, "intersession", alumni relations 52:02 - Coming back and appreciating Toronto in a new way, changes to plans for 4th year 56:00 - Mentorship, machine learning twitter Links: Twitter: @rajiinio Music by Shawn Lee
This week we spoke to Deborah, who split her PEY between 12 months at Clarifai in New York City and 4 months at the MIT Media Lab!
Notes
1:20 - getting into engineering, previous work experience and first jobs at JR Deep and with Project Include, becoming interesting in working in tech
3:45 - developing skills through attending lots of hackathons, attending TechCrunch Disrupt!
6:20 - learning about Clarifai in NYC and computer vision in school, deciding on doing PEY
10:00 - Embarking on a campaign to find a job at a startups, getting a job at Clarifai
13:00 - Work experience at Clarifai, startup work culture
18:10 - Transitioning to a role that felt more like a full-time position
20:05 - Living in Manhattan, moving to Brooklyn
22:20 - Neighborhood culture, comparing Toronto, Ottawa, and NYC, having space for personal growth
27:42 - Summer research at MIT Media Lab, "anti-disciplinary research"
30:45 - Finding out about the researcher through a TED Talk, research in algorithmic/data bias
36:17 - Other things going on at the lab, prosthetics, "do-ocracy" vs a meritocracy
39:58 - Constraints of industry vs. research, justifying research, corporate sponsored research
43:20 - Life outside of work, meeting cool hip musical friends in Cambridge
45:24 - Differences between MIT and UofT, "intersession", alumni relations
52:02 - Coming back and appreciating Toronto in a new way, changes to plans for 4th year
56:00 - Mentorship, machine learning twitter
Links
Music by Shawn Lee