https://t.co/2WXk91qyxD is equal parts amazing and terrifying. I take solace in the fact that the AI still hasn’t quite figured out how to put friends in the pictures
#Apple makes great products, & some workers have a great experience, but some don't. Everyone who knows me at work knows I've dealt with more abuse than anyone should have. (See: "Make Ashley's Life a Living Hell"... & they really did). No one seems surprised I finally broke.
I don't think tech companies are testing coding in the right way...The main skill that I've seen to be important is the ability to jump into *someone else's* code and, e.g., fix a bug, implement a new function. The ability to fluently read code that's not yours is critical.
Today I deployed a model enhancement before noon. It used to take me until midnight because of technical debt.
Paying down technical debt > feature enhancements.
Tweetorial on going from regression to estimating causal effects with machine learning.
I get a lot of questions from students regarding how to think about this *conceptually*, so this is a beginner-friendly #causaltwitter high-level overview with additional references.
New Brunswick has declared a state of emergency to deal with #covid19. They are banning gatherings of 10+ people.
Here are the details on the new rules in NB from Premier Higgs #cdnpoli#covid19
https://t.co/Wy6nhIFTRd
“The indiscriminate scraping of the internet to collect images of people’s faces for law enforcement purposes has significant privacy implications for all Ontarians.”
Regardless of citizenship, this should be a concern for everyone.
For those of you who would like to learn chaos theory conceptually, historically, and visually, without plowing through all the math, check out my series of 24 lectures here: Chaos | The Great Courses https://t.co/SlDuGPco3Y