[D] Quality Contributions Roundup 9/14

Though the community continues to develop new algorithms, state-of-the-art results have stopped improving in the last couple of years. Since RL algorithms that use a tremendous amount of online data to learn from scratch are infeasible to apply in the real-world, much research has moved to fields such as Meta-RL, offline RL, and integrating RL with domain-knowledge, integrating RL and planning, etc. How do you unit test end-to-end ML pipelines?, by u/farmingvillein As perhaps a bit of tldr: once you've got the bare minimum data-replay testing in place ("yeah, it is probably working, because the results are pretty close to what they were before"), I'd encourage you to consider focusing your energy toward thinking of testing as outlier detection. Outliers, in real-world ML systems, tend to be harbingers of things that are wrong systematically, upstream data problems, and logic (pre-/post-processing) problems. How do you transition from a no name international college to FAIR/Brain?, by u/r-sync Coming from a no-name Indian engineering college with meh grades, you do have to get a bit creative, very persistent and build credibility for yourself. The examples above are one way to do so, but you can also maybe articulate your thoughts as really good blog posts and arxiv papers, or show great software engineering skills in open-source (i.e.