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Jimmy Koppel

@jimmykoppel

Turning good engineers into great at mirdin.com . Reverse engineer. Blogs about software design at pathsensitive.com. Ph. D. in PL from @MIT.

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Best practices are usually just common practices, which by definition are not the best, since nothing common is the best.

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Me: So maybe you should group similar declarations and label the groupings? Make it conspicuous? Pretty please? Blockchain developers:

Me: So maybe you should group similar declarations and label the groupings? Make it conspicuous? Pretty please?

Blockchain developers:
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Of all ML concepts, the most presciently named is the Gaussian Error Linear Unit (GELU), now dominant in transfomer architectures Gelu is the name of the wielder of Armageddon's Blade, and directly responsible for the destruction of the world

Of all ML concepts, the most presciently named is the Gaussian Error Linear Unit (GELU), now dominant in transfomer architectures

Gelu is the name of the wielder of Armageddon's Blade, and directly responsible for the destruction of the world
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When someone makes a prediction about 10 years in the future, send an E-mail reminder to yourself to check. This one didn't pan out.

When someone makes a prediction about 10 years in the future, send an E-mail reminder to yourself to check. 

This one didn't pan out.
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Don't call them "best practices." Call them "known good practices." They're there to save you the effort of reinventing everything. Good engineers are always finding process improvements, and that wouldn't be possible if "best" practices truly existed.

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I find myself constantly shocked by the misconceptions people have about learning Then again, I used to share them Do you understand learning? A quiz for everyone: Group A is given a lesson on arithmetic sequences, then asked questions about an application, constant velocity