Sam Sipe: The Impact of VDSML’s 2021 Scholarship | The Data Canteen #19
Description
Sam Sipe was a naval aviator, VDSML's 2021 FourthBrain Scholarship recipient, and he's now a budding ML Engineer! In this episode, Sam and I chat about his childhood interest in rockets and flight, which led him to pursue an education in aerospace engineering and military experience as a pilot. Sam tells us about how his engineering pursuits initially sparked an interest in computer programming, which eventually grew into an interest machine learning. Soon after exiting military service, Sam won VDSML's inaugural FourthBrain Scholarship. Sam tells us about his experience with FourthBrain's bootcamp for aspiring ML engineers - as well as some preliminary information about VDSML's 2022 scholarship opportunities!
FEATURED GUESTS:
Name: Sam Sipe
Email: sam@sipe.io
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samsipe/
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EPISODE LINKS:
Sam's Personal Website: https://samsipe.com/
Sam's FourthBrain Capstone Project: https://amplifygrid.com/
Sam's GitHub: https://github.com/samsipe
Lex Fridman Podcast: https://lexfridman.com/podcast/
Thinking, Fast and Slow (book recommendation): https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/0374533555
The Signal and the Noise (book recommendation): https://www.amazon.com/Signal-Noise-Many-Predictions-Fail-But/dp/159420411X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0
3Blue1Brown (YouTube recommendation): https://www.youtube.com/c/3blue1brown/featured
pyimagesearch (Learning Resource Recommendation): https://pyimagesearch.com/
FourthBrain (Bootcamp Recommendation): https://www.fourthbrain.ai/
DataCamp (MOOC Recommendation): https://www.datacamp.com/
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OUTLINE:
00:00:07 - Introduction
00:02:17 - Sam's military background and personal data science journey
00:17:02 - Sam's thoughts on the value of a background in engineering
00:19:06 - Sam's description of the FourthBrain bootcamp experience
00:23:58 - Sam's goal for doing the FourthBrain machine learning engineer bootcamp
00:25:57 - Sam's epic FourthBrain capstone project
00:35:49 - Challenges Sam encountered during his FourthBrain capstone
00:40:05 - Preliminary info about VDSML's 2022 scholarship opportunities
00:47:41 - What does Sam plan to do with all these newfound skills?
00:54:07 - Sam's current learning focus
00:56:16 - Sam's thoughts on cloud service providers
00:58:42 - Sam's favorite learning resources
01:03:26 - The best way to contact Sam
01:04:40 - Farewells