Sam Sipe: The Impact of VDSML’s 2021 Scholarship | The Data Canteen #19

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