awgl

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   by awgl 1y ago

   Right, for most of our workflows, we stay in python land, which is great and seamless with Metaflow being in python. But yes, there are occasions that we have to make a system call to run an old R script or even a compiled C++ executable :s
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   by awgl 1y ago

   I've used Metaflow for the past 4 years or so on different ML teams. It's really great! Straightforward for data/ML scientists to pick up, familiar python class API for defining DAGs, and simplifies scaling out parallel jobs
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   by awgl 11y ago

   Hmm, meh, I feel like you can say a lot of pretty similar things about San Francisco and the Bay Area too. Let me defend Chicago with some counterpoints! - Weather: Sure, SF Bay Area wins here in terms of what you might think of as regularl
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   by awgl 12y ago

   Right. Well, given your comment and niels_olson's, I feel I have misspoken about this STEM experiment. Not that was I said about quantum mechanics was wrong, just that its relevance to the measurement in this experiment is misguided. A
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   by awgl 12y ago

   I'll readily admit that I'm not a STEM expert. And, honestly, I think I was conflating the STEM in this article with Scanning Tunneling Microscopy ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanning_tunneling_microscope ).
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   by awgl 12y ago

   A crash course in quantum mechanics is what you are asking about! While the electrons and nucleus (i.e. protons + neutrons) of atoms are indeed 'particles', they are exhibit wave-particle duality: http://en.wikipedia.or