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6TB - Snowflake Why? That's the boring solution. If you don't have a use case, what kind of queries you would run then opt for maximum flexibility with the minimum setup of a manag…

That's Kent Beck's 3X: Explore Expand Extract (there is a good video on it about his time at FB)

It's a question of "What is the economy for?" Disruptive tech monopolies upset entire existing industries for the sake of their owners/shareholders/employees, which is usually tiny…

I think feast is sunsetted

Hungary had and still has a state sponsored "elite" education for gifted children. From a relatively early age kids are regularly tested (both materially and curiosity wise) if the…

Hmm, I had to check this and came across this thread on Reddit. NIST has a standard for it, but the exact point is that _that_ can be influenced by them. Also, somewhere in the thr…

Until it turns out that the NSA was involved writing said RNG and explicitly weekend it with a backdoor...

It's beer, isn't? Completely makes sense... If they find evidence that the next step was caffeine, I have no more questions...

Neither does Tadatem ;)

There should be a balance of short term and long term thinking and project management is the optimisation between the two. My experience is that managers only think short term whic…

If you are looking for low discrepancy (fills the space "smoothly") quasy random numbers check out Sobol and Niederreiter sequences.

I found that the best to think of graph implementation is sparse matrices of the adjacency matrix. CSR/CSC format has fast lookup abilities, building and switching between formats …

This is called "Goodhart's Law"

Thanks for the comments. I don't have anything against debuggers, but I feel more natural to write into the code and this simplifies it. TBH I haven't tried this or snoop heavily a…

Ahh, I never heard about it, but it looks promising. I will reach out to the author. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

WIP: suggestions most welcome.

I don't remember response speed mattered until at least ten years after Google's start. Certainly not when they won. They were better. Basic PageRank was better than anything else.…

He should find a SWE and partner up. As more clients enter the ML space there are more less sophisticated ones who has less of a concept of cross functional teams. Rather than educ…

- Find out what you want to do - Think about what are your strongest applicable skills - Talk to as many DSes/MLEs/MLOps engineers you can - Experiment with various fields (watch v…

This video of him from 1996 is amazing with hindsight. A must watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98LdFA-_zfA RIP Christopher Alexander