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# Intern Talk
- On Campus vs Off Campus
- Circuital/ Non Circuital
- Getting into Machine Learning
- Why should you Open Source?
- What should you do now?
slide: [https://hackmd.io/@anirudh/intern_talk](https://hackmd.io/@anirudh/intern_talk)
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## Feel Free To
* Interrupt
* Ask Doubts / Questions / Anything
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## Who am I?
- Machine Learning Researcher
- Open Source Dev :heart:
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## Experiences
- Dive Into Deep Learning Book (PyTorch Author)
- Quansight Labs
- Amazon Web Services AI
- GSoC @ CERN (Student 20, Mentor 21)
- Vernacular AI
- MALL Lab @ IISc
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## Internship Goals
- Learn
- Freedom to work on my interests
- Good People
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## Circutial vs Non-Circuital
- DOESN'T REALLY MATTER
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## On Campus
- Companies visit the campus
- Certain Pre-requisites (atleast for CS related fields)
- CG
- Data Structures & Algo
- Eligibility
- "Easy"
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## Off Campus
- You reach out to the companies
- Infinite Options
- Skill is the only criterion
- "Tougher"
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## How do you apply?
- Find your interest
- How to find the company / research lab?
- Follow the rule of 5 people around you
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## What is Open Source?
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## Why should you care?
- Learn from the best
- Opportunities (Dev, Designing, Marketing)
- Zero barrier entry
- Impact
- Real World Experience
- Connections
- Insightful Interactions
- Community
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## Open Source Programs?
- GSoC
- GSoD
- MLH Fellowship
- Github Externship
- GSSoC
- Outreachy
- https://github.com/deepanshu1422/List-Of-Open-Source-Internships-Programs
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## Machine Learning
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## How to get into Machine Learning?
- MOOCs
- CS 229 Stanford
- CS 11-785 CMU
- NPTEL Intro to ML by Balaraman Ravindran
- CS 231n Stanford
- CS 224n Stanford
- Books
- https://d2l.ai
- Python Machine Learning Sebastian Raschka
- ISLR
- Deep Learning by Goodfellow et al.
- Avoid
- Udemy
- XYZ Course Certificates etc etc.
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# Takeaways
Thinking a lot about "internships" won’t take you anywhere.
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## Don't get into the rat race
- Competitive Programming
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## Focus on Skill Development
- Explore: Find a field, talk to a senior, learn
- Set Goals
- Short Goals
- Long Goals
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## Most Important
- Stay Humble
- Don't pressurize yourself
- Internships are nothing but a way to learn
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## Talk to me about
- Campus Groups
- Machine Learning
- Research
- Open Source
- Competitive Programming
- Anything but Geology xD
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## Thank you!
You can find me on
- Website: anirudhdagar.ml
- GitHub: anirudhdagar
- Twitter: gollum_here
- Email: anirudhdagar6@gmail.com
- Contact: 9810610532
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# My Journey
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