mlthoughts2018

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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
> “ clients do not know what they are getting in advance, because they are looking for knowledge that they themselves lack. They cannot measure the results, either, because outside factors, such as the quality of execution, influence the
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
I agree. I once worked for a company that wrote a blog post on reinventing and upgrading A/B tests, but the ugly truth was that the company couldn’t run an A/B test to save its life. Every A/B test was a disaster, there were
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
There is just absolutely no good-faith way anyone can disagree with requiring user consent to be tracked. It is as close to “pure evil” as you can get for Facebook to campaign against it.
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
Gotta mainline those photons.
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
I think one one interesting thing is that megacorps that seem to integrate big acquisitions (Amazon -> Whole Foods, Microsoft -> Github & LinkedIn, Facebook -> WhatsApp), all seem to be megacorps that don’t mind doing shit in a
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
Certainly there’s a lot of credit due to “lessons learned” - but they key part is that the main lesson learned was to prioritize spot change flexibility over a “pluggable” model of extensibility enforced with a type system design and rigidi
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
> “You say this, but then never address this claim in the text below. Could you expand on it?” I believe I did answer this in my original comment, so I will just refer you back to that. I disagree that there was any conflating going on.
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
Great to see the excitement and success story for this hardworking person. Depressing to see leetcode and data structures interview prep heralded as a positive thing and treated as a neutral, accepted, “nothing wrong with this” aspect of th
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
The “types do not impede, they help [clarity of thought / program structure / catching many important classes of bugs]” claim is hogwash. I say that as someone who spent most of a decade doing Haskell and Scala professionally in l
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Square Buys $170M More Bitcoin, Deepening Crypto Bet(bloomberg.com)
8 points by mlthoughts2018 6y ago|4 comments
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
I think this extends outside of Python. Performance and safety are trade offs, not absolutes, and the balance of needing safety or performance vs extensibility vs ease of development may result in dozens or hundreds of different trade off n
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
No, it is not too much to ask in the specific case of Gebru’s bad paper. Several of the arguments are specious, like comparing the total energy consumption for training GPT with car trips, or demanding that NLP researchers have to keep up w
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
I feel like if I am worried about those issues, when would I ever use sqlite instead of Postgres? Sqlite seems like it is only appropriate for the knife’s edge boundary between small data, low reliability, in-memory situations (better serve
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
We did deploy it. This whole architecture was chosen in an adtech business I worked in before, supported by data platform teams, analytics teams and more. The RFC process was intense and the decision was vetted with seriously heavy effort
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
Once in memory, the flatfile’s data can be mutated in place, and creating the equivalent of a WAL-like system or oplog to protect against sudden failure & loss of in-memory data is a pretty easy part to solve.
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
No, I meant using eg pandas even for that. We built an data annotation processing system at my last job like this. Literally customer specific csv files that got booted up and then an online flask service received restful updates of data an
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
Can anyone share some cool applications or bigger production systems built with sqlite? I love virtually everything I read about it, but I have never encountered a single use case where I am not better served by storing the data in some fla
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
It’s framed as a solution to energy reliance on fossil fuel because it is a solution.
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A Cap Theorem for Career Development(managingml.substack.com)
4 points by mlthoughts2018 6y ago|0 comments
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
This is very very stupid. I mean it: stupid. The act of planning is not about the future, it’s about the present. I haven’t experienced the future yet, so it has no value to me. But a chained sequence of events that have a certain likelihoo
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
No, it is not easier. Working on them across multiple repos is just as easy. In either case you write dev tools to apply changes across units. If the units are repos, it adds no additional complexity.
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
Just because repo structure can relate doesn’t mean that such a relationship involves any properties of monorepo structure vs polyrepo structure. Any messy code organization or dependency issue you can have in a monorepo, you can also hav
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
That wouldn’t make sense, given that repo structure truly is unrelated in any way to the distinctions between monolith applications vs microservices.
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
The article doesn’t have any connection to monorepo / polyrepo axis. You can use either repo structure for a monolith application, or use either repo structure for separated microservices. The article is just not related to repo struct
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
No, I can’t speak on their behalf on Hacker News, so it is important to me to stay disconnected from my employer.
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
“But first, an anecdote... when I was a kid...” Nope. See ya. Whatever follows next is not going to be worthwhile.
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
Yep, I was going to suggest this too. It feels copy/pasted from Talk to Transformer.
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
I get it from ~15 years experience as a manager across many engineering teams in large ecommerce companies. I’ve seen it literally hundreds of times. Someone absolutely aces leetcode interviews and appears to walk on water with instant solu
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
I think it’s been bog standard practice to run flask via uwsgi or gunicorn with async workers and use multiple process based workers per deployed server unit (eg per pod in Kubernetes). What matters is that the cumulative latency & thro
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
Not true. Success in leetcode interviews does not correlate with success or impact once in the job. The current methods have poor accuracy and poor recall. The only reason they are widely used is political gatekeeping. You need the ability

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