mlthoughts2018

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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
I am long on Bitcoin and also believe Tether is a fraud. I expect Bitcoin will significantly drop, but I realize I could be wrong. If it does drop, that is nothing but a large buying opportunity to me. If it doesn’t drop, I’ll be happy to j
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I don’t understand why a crossword puzzle company spends so much effort on a journalism side project.
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
I discussed some related soft skill tactics in this post - for the specific problem of managing technical respect for a specialist team (in this case a machine learning team). - https://managingml.substack.com/p/the-myt
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“Putting effort into helping low performers improve or find better fitting roles” is called “leadership.” It’s mind-blowing that you see a 6 month investment in just doing basic leadership 101 as a massive bureaucratic hassle. I think it’s
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No, I’m not agreeing at all. The author is asserting that you should always be in the start-up situation of not having incremental work where your ultimate impact on customers comes through long chained sequences of tiny tweaks or accumul
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“What did I do for the customer today” is often in principle not answerable within megacorps. If you’re the person who fixes a new employee’s password issues, you have to do mental gymnastics like “I helped X fix their password, then X crea
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> “ It is practically impossible to fire someone for the basic reason that you don't need this role any more or there is a better person out there or just plain old - you are not doing a great job. This neuters managers and does not
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by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
This is great advice. The absolute best SEO tip of all time is this: remember what you searched for on Google and couldn’t find a decent answer or link in the first few pages? Now you write that answer or link on your website.
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I don’t agree. There are way, way more jobs than qualified candidates for San Francisco & New York level of salaried jobs across a bunch of major cities, and as the candidate pool increases, these companies are likely to just increase d
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As a lifelong US resident across about 10 different states, I disagree very strongly. In mid-sized cities and large urban areas, the police are generally extremely corrupt and integrate with high level politicians and corporate interests fo
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I’ll just add that I agree - I also implore readers to read sections 4.1 and 4.2 of the link because it explicitly and unequivocally backs up and confirms what I said about the “woke vocab” critique. I hope people will read it, because a di
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That doesn’t seem related to this discussion though. Whether a given business can afford to pay it or not is a reflection of customer demand for that product or service combined with good or bad executive leadership. If the competitive wage
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I am personally long on Bitcoin. Such a crash is just a buying opportunity. I don’t even consider any part of speculating Bitcoin value on a time horizon less than 10 years.
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No, I never said other companies make as much profit. I said other companies experience the same multiples or order of magnitude impact effect from software engineers that tech companies experience. Ultimately your business’s total revenu
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> “ But I'm happy (or privileged?) to live in a place where I do trust my law enforcement to be on the side of our community,” May I ask where that is? Because it could not be any location in the US.
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By what means can a government restrict use of Bitcoins that you hold in your own hardware wallet? You can run your own VPN at home. I don’t believe it would ever be practical for any government, of any size or sophistication, to prevent us
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The entire world has already been a recruiting source for FAANG for more than a decade, both remote & via paid relocation & visa sponsorship. People seem to think that opening up India as another source will drastically lower wages,
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That goes without saying and is already accounted for implicitly in anything I already wrote. You’re pointing this out like it’s a surprise or somehow contradicts what I wrote, but it doesn’t at all. The “least they can pay” floor is just b
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I feel my comment tracks extremely well with the sections you cite and that it takes some mental gymnastics to read exactly the link you provided and then act like my comments somehow don’t track. The original criticisms were about failur
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I deny your premise. All those companies can and already do leverage software engineering talent for the same multipliers or orders of magnitude impact on revenue that tech companies get out of it. They are just using rent seeking opportuni
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That is a great example, exactly the point I am suggesting. The economist and futurist Robin Hanson wrote really well about this in the article “Inequality Talk Is About Grabbing” [0]. The premise is: why do we care about some forms of ineq
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> “ But generally you don't need that.” I think this is wrong. This is what ML researchers tend to think when they are ignorant of why DevOps best practices exist and what other teams need in order to provide underlying infrastructu
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The real problem with AI ethics and fairness is that nobody actually listens to ethicists or philosophers. Nobody takes the subject seriously. It’s just a hype vehicle to cram in whatever social justice outrage du jour that some liberal sou
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You are wrong. The revenue impact of more manufacturing heavy and device heavy industries is lower for those engineers - that’s just how the overhead of other engineering and biotech companies work. Software is fundamentally different and t
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The question is not whether Databricks claims to be anything. The question is just what is a best practice, from an ETL / DevOps point of view, and how to enforce ML tooling to adhere to that from first principles. I’ll give a concre
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I own a Remarkable 2 and it is vastly superior to an iPad (which I also own) for many use cases. I would likely pay more for Remarkable 2 than for a full-sized iPad at this point, as the streaming and browsing capabilities are not useful to
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> But from now on you can get the inflated valley salaries from everywhere. They are so high because cost of living is very high and competition with other companies too You have it backwards. Silicon Valley salaries are not “inflated” n
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Each round trip of model training (such as when optimizing hyperparameters) should be a distinct run through the ETL stages, with dedicated artifact tracking. Observability and monitoring for ML model training ETLs should always include wha
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The trouble is that those expectations exist for a reason, and there’s a whole world of best practices and efficient patterns that have developed specifically to solve the challenges of orchestrating and monitoring ETLs. What feels convenie
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It’s almost universally a very bad sign if managers are significantly contributing code. I agree with you that occasional bug fixes or small tweaks would be fine, but anything beyond that and it means the manager is taking time away from su

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