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by cle 8y ago
SageMaker has a wide array of built-in training algorithms: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/algos.html
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by cle 8y ago
Yes I've observed the same thing. It doesn't mean we should give up on coherent frameworks though. It just means we need to emphasize and be vocal about the dangers of orthodoxy (which is what I'm constantly trying to do).
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by cle 8y ago
About half the 5 Whys analyses I've seen at my company end up doing this anyway, because anyone paying attention realizes this immediately. It's pretty easy to do a branching 5 Why analysis that branches off in different directio
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by cle 8y ago
This argument seems rather pedantic to me, possibly because the author's context is different from mine. Of course you shouldn't treat the 5 Whys as orthodoxy. Of course it's not a silver bullet in RCA. Of course it's
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by cle 8y ago
Do you know how many engineers work at Google and Amazon? A lot. Chances are that many readers of this article actually are Google and Amazon. My point is: these generalizations in either direction are not helpful. Many people are operat
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by cle 8y ago
Those are the ones you hear about, because they're controversial and easily relatable to most consumers. Machine learning has had a major impact in "blasé" industries that you are omitting, such as healthcare, finance, and ma
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by cle 8y ago
Can you elaborate on how his concept of AI is disconnected from reality?
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by cle 8y ago
Alan Kay probably does know what he's talking about. The problem is that nobody else knows what he's talking about.
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by cle 8y ago
I mentally categorize these discussions of "true OOP" in the same class as "RESTful" API discussions. Nobody is quite sure what they're even arguing about, so the discussions go around endlessly in circles.
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by cle 8y ago
What are companies composed of? People. I'm not arguing that companies are negatively biasing democratic representation, I think they are. But they are just people too, so this particular argument is pretty weak to me.
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by cle 8y ago
This is not the right approach to take then. There are lots of other approaches to decision making outside of hypothesis testing, use them! This is not an appropriate use of hypothesis testing and can very much lead you toward making the
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by cle 8y ago
These sweeping generalizations in either direction are wrong and counterproductive. Some people need the complex infrastructure, some people don't. What you should focus on is finding out what your use cases are, and then building the
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by cle 8y ago
This is probably by design on Amazon’s part, in which case the lopsided outrage is entirely justified.
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by cle 8y ago
This is not at all outdated. GraalVM and SubstrateVM are still very new and only support a subset of JVM features. The Vert.x article itself mentions that, as well as this: https://github.com/oracle/graal/blob&#x
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by cle 8y ago
One of the early uses of type systems was about performance of memory allocation, which brought massive performance improvements. Folks quickly realized that they could be used to enforce invariants, which they're also really good at.
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by cle 8y ago
> And if a type system can not guard against run-time errors, what’s the merit of having one? This makes me really question the author's credibility. Clearly the author is pretty confused about static vs. dynamic type systems, and
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by cle 8y ago
> I sincerely hope that we fill see massive fines, people lose their jobs, and perhaps some more severe criminal charges brought against those whose negligence caused this. TBH I find this “off with their head” mentality to be counter pr
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by cle 8y ago
Agree. I work at a large company with very specific role guidelines for "Sr. Engineer" vs. a regular engineer. The main differences are not "programming" skills, although a Sr. Engineer is expected to have solid progra
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by cle 8y ago
It seems what ML is really doing is exposing weaknesses in our scientific processes. The appropriate response here is to fix the processes, instead of blaming the latest fad and imploring people to "try harder". If the root caus
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by cle 8y ago
Every time I see a headline about outrage over corporations not paying taxes, my first thought is, "How much taxes did employees pay?" It's not clear to me why a non-human should be paying taxes, when all of the humans worki
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by cle 8y ago
Why is everyone freaking out? This is a demo of the technology, its complexity is contrived to demonstrate various facets. This kind of architecture is not unreasonable for larger companies with many teams, which is where the technology it
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by cle 8y ago
API versioning has its own tradeoffs as well. Now there's a negotiation protocol to follow, which introduces a bunch of other issues. E.g. if I'm looking at a field that hasn't changed between versions, then a version misma
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by cle 8y ago
Understand before you criticize. There are plenty of scenarios where enums can be undesirable. One off the top of my head that I run into all the time is in client stubs of service APIs, where a client-side enum representing a string value
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by cle 8y ago
I'm not saying that you should never use relational databases. But if you are running at a large scale and have tight availability SLAs...then consider not using relational databases. The fact that transaction wrap around is so well-k
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by cle 8y ago
What is your point? It was a 6 hour brownout, not a 30+ hour blackout. It is very unlikely that this kind of outage will happen again for DynamoDB. How likely is someone else going to run into a transaction wrap around again? If it&#x27
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by cle 8y ago
These could also partially be language and tooling issues. There are some languages that are so “powerful”, “flexible”, and unopinionated that every developer has dramatically different coding styles (JavaScript, Scala, etc.). On the other
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by cle 8y ago
Not sure what your point is? Should we give up on well-designed components? A cynical quip like Sustrik’s Law is meaningless to me without a deeper analysis. What mechanisms or conditions make this “law” true? And what are its actionable
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by cle 8y ago
In this context, I’m not using those cynical definitions of “legacy”. The definition is right there: software that doesn’t have any business value anymore.
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by cle 8y ago
> There's another important idea here - when designing a new application you should design it in such a way as to make it easier for it to be strangled in the future. Let's face it, all we are doing is writing tomorrow's l
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by cle 8y ago
If you care about scalability and availability simultaneously, I'm not sure in these modern times why you would use a relational database. When they fail, they fail catastrophically and are difficult to recover, as this failure event

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