The Importance of Documentation in Distributed Innovation

The ultimate goal here is to reduce the friction for someone who have external knowledge and map it into the internal ecosystem. There's like some kind of timing thing that we have to think about in terms of whether there's enough complexity that warrants the additional overhead of having these program But I would say like the program should exist in some form just like how documentation should exist inSome form Uh, and and the program can scale as the complexity of the of the organization grows as well,.

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MLOps Coffee Sessions #156 with Melissa Barr & Michael Mui, Machine Learning Education at Uber, co-hosted by Lina Weichbrodt.

// Abstract

Melissa and Michael discuss the education program they developed for Uber's machine learning platform service, Michelangelo, during a guest appearance on a podcast. The program teaches employees how to use machine learning both in general and specifically for Uber. The platform team can obtain valuable feedback from users and use it to enhance the platform. The course was designed using engineering principles, making it applicable to other products as well.

// Bio

Melissa Barr

Melissa is a Technical Program Manager for ML & AI at Uber. She is based in New York City. She drives projects across Uber’s ML platform, delivery, and personalization teams. She also built out the first version of the ML Education Program in 2021.

Michael Mui

Michael is a Staff Technical Lead Manager on Uber AI's Machine Learning Platform team. He leads the Distributed ML Training team, which focuses on building elastic, scalable, and fault-tolerant distributed machine learning libraries and systems used to power machine learning development productivity across Uber. He also co-leads Uber’s internal ML Education initiatives. Outside of Uber, Michael also teaches ML at the Parsons School of Design in NYC as an Adjunct Faculty (mostly for the museum passes!) and guest lectures at the University of California, Berkeley.

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