Hi - I'm Sarah, Machine Learning Engineer

I'm currently a Machine Learning Engineer, with over 2 years of experience and degrees in math and CS. But despite all of that I often feel like I have no idea what I’m even doing. Yes, really. The field is constantly changing and as a student or junior it’s tough to find out what you should be focusing on and where you fit in.

I’m here to share what I’m learning on a technical level, but also to show you the behind-the-scenes of navigating my career. Click here for more details about me.

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Starting my January 2025 project: a Local RAG System from Scratch

This January, I’m taking on a new challenge: creating my very own local RAG-system to search through my notes

04 Jan

ML Ops

How to build a Python package with uv and install it locally

This post will walk you through the steps to build a simple Python package and install it locally on your

04 Nov

ML Ops

How to Set Up Poetry for Python: A Step-by-Step Guide to Better Package Management

I've always been a pip + venv (yes, not even virtualenv) user. Conda never played nice with me. However,

01 May

Machine Learning

Intro to Scene Text Recognition - Guide to Image-to-Text Conversion

Recognizing text in a photo - something we're quite good at, but neural networks struggle quite a bit

13 Feb

Advent Of Code 2022 - 7 Reasons why you should participate

December is the time for many festive activities BUT there is one that is clearly the best ;) I'm

02 Dec

Machine Learning

3 Lessons from the paper "Attention Is All You Need" as a Beginner

With the recent surge of news about image, or even art, generating AI, I'm sure I'm

08 Oct

How to solve Advent of Code 2021 – Day 5 [Python]

Confused? Check out my Day 1 post to read all about Advent of Code here: https://galaxyinferno.com/how-to-solve-advent-of-code-2021-day-1/ GitHub

14 Dec