I found this proposal for improvements to error handling in Go interesting, but still not something I’d be happy to see implemented. Allow me to clear up my thoughts on Go’s errors. Overall, I prefer how Go forces me to … Read more
Automating the end-to-end machine learning (ML) lifecycle, even for a specific prediction task, is neither easy nor obvious. People keep talking about how ML engineering (MLE) is a subset of software engineering or should be treated as such. But over … Read more
No technology other than RSS has had more think pieces written proclaiming the death of RSS (2006, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013) and the rebirth of RSS (2009, 2010, 2011, 2018, 2018, 2019). Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a protocol that … Read more
You’ve probably heard about the potato diet. If not, here it is: Eat potatoes. As many as you want. Oil and salt are OK. Don’t eat other stuff. I thought this sounded delightfully absurd so I tried it for a … Read more
I feel techniques for making machine learning work with small data are not talked about enough. This makes sense because many ML applications are only possible by collecting a huge amount of data. And running Kaggle competitions on small datasets … Read more
OKRs are one of those business ideas that are just simple enough to be dangerous. You think you understand it in a day, and you can see where your company is falling short: lacking focus and underdelivering. You see how … Read more
It’s been 5 years since I launched my flask boilerplate project in 2017, and that has been my go-to web stack ever since. I’ve built dozens of web apps with it – both for clients as well as personal projects. … Read more
I have been playing The Witness since it came out this Tuesday. The Witness is what is probably best described as a “puzzle game”, and if you haven’t heard about it yet and that sounds at all interesting, I encourage … Read more
I am returning from the reproducible builds summit 2018 in Paris. The latest hottest thing within the reproducible-builds project seems to be bootstrapping: How can we build a whole operating system from just and only source code, using very little, … Read more
Quick summary ↬ Markdown in all its flavors, interpretations, and forks won’t go away. However, it’s important to look at emerging content formats that try to encompass modern needs. In this article, Knut shares his advice against Markdown by looking back … Read more