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Goodharts Law
Towards the end of college I was pretty obsessed with deep learning and forced myself to read a paper everyday (this was during Covid) and I remember thinking “wow, this must be what it’s like to be a grad student, awesome.”
And then I wrote a really long write up about an (old) paper I had read and had a large influx of grad students reach out to me with questions related to some homework assignment they had on the same paper. This is when I realized that much like undergrad, most grad students don’t care and are not actually interested in the material beyond the degree
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Towards the end of college I was pretty obsessed with deep learning and forced myself to read a paper everyday (this was during Covid) and I remember thinking “wow, this must be what it’s like to be a grad student, awesome.”
And then I wrote a really long write up about an (old) paper I had read and had a large influx of grad students reach out to me with questions related to some homework assignment they had on the same paper. This is when I realized that much like undergrad, most grad students don’t care and are not actually interested in the material beyond the degree
How is there no mention of The Simpsons.... it's the only opening that I never (ever) skip, it's the only opening that I ever talk about independent of the actual show.
Unlabelled? Neutral. Laptop only, means i can bang out work on a train, on a plane, with a fox, on a box!
I find selling the mono-repo such a difficult task, even when benefits like this are implemented and demonstrated to be amazing.
"For programmers that means poring over that pull request of theirs over and over again until it’s as aesthetically pleasing as it is functionally correct."
I like to apply this at the commit level, where the history tells a compelling story of "mark the hard change easy..."
“If there’s anything I see juniors often miss, it’s this. Careful, repeated, even obsessive, study of their own work. For programmers that means poring over the pull request until it’s as aesthetically pleasing as it is functionally correct.” world.hey.com/dhh/commit-to-…
The evolution of automated testing acronyms...
We started with First,
TFD
We elaborated with Design
TDD
We clarified with Feedback
TDF (tidyfirst.substack.com/p/tdd…)
“Oh, and you often have to rewrite your app in proprietary JavaScript – even if it’s already written in JavaScript!”
🔥
FLAME is out! 🔥 Auto scale by wrapping any app code in a function and have that block run in a temporary copy of your app.
It's time to rethink Serverless.
No rewrites. No bespoke runtimes. No outrageous layers of complexity. Blog + screencast 👉 fly.io/blog/rethinking-serve…
supa dupa fly
#WorkIt @MissyElliott! Missy is officially the first female Hip-Hop artist to be inducted into @rockhall! She holds 6 Platinum 💿 or higher tracks and 6 💿 Platinum or higher albums.
Getting to brevity requires clarity, forcing you to stake a claim about what is your most important point. m.signalvnoise.com/the-writi…
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After a seven year break, I'm back running the Pragmatic Bookshelf. I have a lot of cool things planned, but I could really do with your help. For the background, and for details on how to voice your opinions, see pragdave.me/thoughts/active/…. I look forward to chatting with a whole bunch of you.
Thanks
Dave
