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Reflection
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Reflecting on a Year of Making Machine Learning Actually Useful
Shreya Shankar's honest reflection on a year trying to make machine learning actually useful in industry — covering the gap between academic ML and production, the underappreciated role of data work, and why most ML projects fail before the model stage. One of the most cited personal essays in the MLOps space.
One Year as a Data Scientist at Stack Overflow
David Robinson's retrospective on his first year as a data scientist at Stack Overflow — what he learned, where the role differed from academic statistics, and why communication matters more than algorithms. A grounded career reflection that aged well.