Tao Of ML: Interview With Kaggle Master Oleg Yaroshevskiy

"Whenever you compete, you have to accept simple rules – someone wins, someone loses, and usually the winner takes it all." For this week's ML practitioner's series, Analytics India Magazine got in touch with Oleg Yaroshevskiy from Ukraine. In this interview, he shares his experiences from his journey to the top 20 in one of the toughest data science competitions in the world. Oleg majored in maths and statistics from Cybernetics Faculty of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, which was co-founded by Victor Glushkov, one of the cybernetics pioneers who played a key role in the advancement of theoretical computer science, including artificial intelligence. Oleg had a formal introduction to machine learning (ML) during his graduation days where he had studied neural networks along with the popular Andrew NG's course on Coursera back in 2013.