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Author here! It's great to see this post I wrote years ago still being useful for people. I agree with many here that the situation is arguably worse in many ways. However, along s…

Great point on the mobile layout. I've modified the site to make better use of space on smaller screens. Have a great weekend!

Great! We (technologists) should be using machine learning approaches to practical real world problems, particularly those problems whose solutions allow humans to be more producti…

I gave a lecture at the University of Toronto last year with a similar point to what the speaker was getting at. Namely, we should be focusing on augmenting human intelligence, not…

Most of the time, I've found a push to microservices within an organization to be due to some combination of: 1) Business is pressuring tech teams to deliver faster, and they canno…

I run into the microservices obsession very often in the high-growth startups I advise, so often that I wrote Enough With The Microservices ( https://adamdrake.com/enough-with-the-…

One thing I haven't seen in the comments, but have observed personally is the accounting implications and reasoning for these failed SAP projects. Sometimes the project cannot be s…

I use it from time to time, but I certainly wouldn't consider myself an expert. When I need to do something beyond my current knowledge I search around a bit until I find the awk s…

Or, as is my preference, how to analyze 366,000 Records per Second on my laptop: https://adamdrake.com/big-data-small-machine.html And that's with non-optimized code!

If this kind of stuff is of interest for you, I wrote up some similar ideas (albeit in Go instead of standard command-line tools). 366,000 RPS on a laptop: https://adamdrake.com/bi…

Author here. If I can answer any questions, feel free to ask away!

I'm not of the opinion that it is dangerous as an idea, but rather that the intentional deception I see on the AI topic is dangerous (not to mention unethical). I can't think of a …

I gave a lecture a couple of months ago called Developing your AI BS Detector addressing this very topic. https://adamdrake.com/developing-your-ai-bs-detector.html The main thesis …

I can definitely understand the feeling of wasted time, and perhaps I didn't do a good job of explaining the point. The main issue is that you shouldn't discuss your current salary…

Some thoughts on 'job hopping': 1. If you're in the first 10 years or so of your tech career, you should be changing jobs every 18 to 24 months. These are the primary years in whic…

When I moved it to AWS Lambda there was some size introduced from TLS and also from some headers that AWS API Gateway adds which seem, unfortunately, impossible to easily drop (e.g…

As has been mentioned, this is a common (albeit incorrect) use/understanding of what Command and Control actually is. I wrote an article some time ago to reframe this in a business…

This is neat! I did something similar with https://tinysite.adamdrake.com where I have a website that fits into a single ipv4 datagram (at least it did when I was using my own HTTP…

True. The FEIE does cut that down a bit, but anything over the FEIE limits would still be subject to tax in the US, though not in the host country, as you mentioned. I was simply m…

Not sure if you're a US citizen/green card holder or not, but it might be worth mentioning that if so all of your worldwide income is subject to reporting and taxation. If your tax…

For those interested, this might be a good place to mention Newsbeuter, but Mutt of feed readers! It can be pretty efficient to do feed reading and management via CLI. https://news…

Good point on the fit/predict difference. However, there are some models and techniques (e.g. logistic regression with hashing trick) where the fit and predict steps aren't all tha…

Fully agreed. I think the privacy angle is particularly compelling, and doing on-device analytics using models that have low memory requirements and acceptable (although not academ…