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We're evaluating multiple providers (Snowflake, BigQuery, AWS Redshift, Azure). What are good criteria you would recommend thinking about? Also, anecdotes of your personal pain poi…

That's a great point. I suspect though, the critique applies to decision making by consensus more broadly. Decisions made by consensus are not necessarily the optimal strategy (as …

Instantiation of ideas from the paper here (NOVID app): https://www.novid.org/ I attended a talk about this recently, and I honestly think it's a revolutionary / game changing way …

This is amazing! Really excited to see where this goes, good luck :)

This post was inspired by a question Richard Hamming asks in "You and your research" (paraphrasing): "What are the most important problems in your field?". When I thought hard abou…

Short post on using computational graphs to derive update rules for backpropagation, illustrated using a Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU). Questions, feedback, corrections? Do reach out!…

There's many tools I've picked up over the years (sometimes on as needed basis, sometimes just for fun). The latter has been way more rewarding though in retrospect :) Instead of e…

I resonate with the feeling of joy of having translated thoughts into a concrete result :) More often though I find all sorts of loopholes and alternative ways I could've done the …

Nvim + Coc (either MPLS or Jedi, both work good), way faster, and definitely worth the learning curve if you're new to modal text editors :)

I enjoyed taking Model Thinking: https://www.coursera.org/learn/model-thinking It's designed to be a foundation course for subsequent social science classes, but I personally found…