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Email is Easy
Email is Easy
For decades now I've been annoyed by systems that validate email addresses, badly. This is useful to help illustrate how people often get the idea of a "valid" email address wrong.
#best-practice#coding#programming
·e-mail.wtf·
Email is Easy
Software Engineering for Machine Learning: A Case Study
Software Engineering for Machine Learning: A Case Study
Abstract—Recent advances in machine learning have stimulated widespread interest within the Information Technology sector on integrating AI capabilities into software and services. This goal has forced organizations to evolve their development processes. We report on a study that we conducted on observing software teams at Microsoft as they develop AI-based applications. We consider a nine-stage workflow process informed by prior experiences developing AI applications (e.g., search and NLP) and data science tools (e.g. application diagnostics and bug reporting). We found that various Microsoft teams have united this workflow into preexisting, well-evolved, Agile-like software engineering processes, providing insights about several essential engineering challenges that organizations may face in creating large-scale AI solutions for the marketplace. We collected some best practices from Microsoft teams to address these challenges. In addition, we have identified three aspects of the AI domain that make it fundamentally different from prior software application domains: 1) discovering, managing, and versioning the data needed for machine learning applications is much more complex and difficult than other types of software engineering, 2) model customization and model reuse require very different skills than are typically found in software teams, and 3) AI components are more difficult to handle as distinct modules than traditional software components — models may be “entangled” in complex ways and experience non-monotonic error behavior. We believe that the lessons learned by Microsoft teams will be valuable to other organizations.
#AI#engineering#machine-learning#paper#programming
·microsoft.com·
Software Engineering for Machine Learning: A Case Study
Repomix
Repomix
While the tool is aimed at repos, more generally a tool for taking a ton of different files and turning them into a single source that can be thrown at some sort of learning system so you can ask questions of it.
#AI#LLM#machine-learning#programming
·repomix.com·
Repomix
Drum Field Archers
Drum Field Archers
I'm tempted to get back into field archery after around 3 decades of not doinng it. Here's one local group...
#archery#Edinburgh
·drumfieldarchers.club·
Drum Field Archers
Reddit App not refreshing on iPhone : r/ProtonVPN
Reddit App not refreshing on iPhone : r/ProtonVPN

Recently I had a need to finally use a VPN (no, not for that reason -- it was the opposite; I wasn't in the UK and needed to appear to be) and so gave Proton a spin. When using it I noticed that while the Reddit app worked, sometimes, it wouldn't update stories for hours.

Seems this isn't uncommon.

#Proton#ProtonVPN#reddit#VPN
·reddit.com·
Reddit App not refreshing on iPhone : r/ProtonVPN
If you are useful, it doesn’t mean you are valued
If you are useful, it doesn’t mean you are valued
"As you progress in your career, understanding the difference between being useful and being valued is very important. At first glance, they might look similar because the signals you get are more or less the same: a promotion, a higher than expected bonus, a special stock award. This is why it’s important to dig deeper and try to detect subtler signals."
#advice#business#leadership#mental-health#work
·betterthanrandom.substack.com·
If you are useful, it doesn’t mean you are valued