[Day 168] First day of Internship Experience UK: Technology by Bright network

 Hello :)
Today is Day 168!


A quick summary of today:
  • did MLOps zoomcamp's homework 5 on model monitoring
  • discovering LLM zoomcamp



For completeness: here is the full schedule, and there are various sessions by top employers in the UK on building up our careers. Below are some notes from today's sessions

Session on leadership skills with Deloitte
  • creative problem-solving
    • identify challenges
    • generate solutions
    • making mistakes
    • skills in practice
  • empowering your team and embracing responsibility
    • encourage diverse perspectives
    • build trust
    • accountability and reliability
  • there was a task where we had to think about being a leader in a 2-week deadline merger&acquisition case - how to organise, manage communication, strategy and deadlines
  • using the Eisenhower matrix for task management
Session on transferable skills by ICAEW
  • teamwork
  • people skills
  • decision making & problem solving
  • professionalism
  • commercial awareness
  • IT skills
Session on building your personal brand with PwC

Your personal brand is how you promote yourself. It is about how you present yourself, what are your values - what do you stand for. 

'Your brand is what others say about you when you're not in the room.' - Jeff Bezos

Personal brand mistakes

  • careful with online presence
  • communication skills and knowing your environment and how to speak in the workplace
  • integrity
  • professionalism
Tomorrow is when the Tech-specific sessions start and also the day ends at ~2am for me, so it will be a long day. 

Finally

Right now when I was closing tabs, I saw on youtube a livestream by DataTalksClub. Their LLM zoomcamp is starting today - and it is the first time they are running it. So I am thinking of joining because at the end (just like their other courses) I will have a nice project that I can add to my portfolio. 

It covers:

  1. Introduction to LLMs and RAG
  2. Open-source LLMs and self-hosting LLMs
  3. Vector databases and retrieval techniques
  4. Workshop: dlt
  5. LLM orchestration and ingestion pipelines
  6. Monitoring and Guardrails
  7. Tips and Tricks for advanced RAG systems
  8. Project


That is all for today!

See you tomorrow :)

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