As a content creator in the tech space, I found myself caught in an all-too-familiar trap: endless hours of doomscrolling through social media and news aggregators, trying to stay on top of the latest trends. The signal-to-noise ratio was abysmal—for every meaningful tech dev...
Modern software development is complex. Our projects have hundreds of files, intricate dependencies, and carefully thought-out architectural decisions. While AI coding assistants are powerful, they often feel like well-meaning but forgetful colleagues—you have to keep remindi...
Mark Zuckerberg recently claimed AI will replace mid-level engineers by 2025. As someone building AI developer tools and studying their real-world implementation, I believe this fundamentally misunderstands both the current state of AI and the role of mid-level engineers. He...
This is the reason that startups succeed despite their many weaknesses. And it's a reason to build a startup in the first place.
Exploring how an AI-powered reading experience could look like.
Learning why model redundancy > optimization It started with a frustrating Thursday afternoon. Our code analysis service was hitting rate limits constantly, and I was doing what any reasonable engineer would do: optimizing our token usage, implementing better queuing, and ...
Hey everyone, Happy Friday! Vipul here with the latest updates for This Week in Rails. Before we start, a small update - I am happy to share that my team at Saeloun is joining the Rails Foundation as a contributing member. Read more about the reasons why we decided to join h...
Happy new year everyone! The Rails Foundation is kicking off the year with great news: Saeloun has joined the Rails Foundation as its newest Contributing member! Saeloun is a Ruby on Rails consulting agency, based out of Boston, MA, and Pune, India. The team helps lead and ...
I was too confused to price mevin.ai, the offerings were for personal, business, and sometimes indie hackers.I want to provide free plan for sure, and then more plans.Free, Basic, ProBecause there's 2 or more, I simplified it as Personal and Business.So it's totall...
Last week, my AI coding assistant generated a perfectly-structured code review suggestion. The format was immaculate - every field properly typed, every attribute carefully specified, the suggestion clear and actionable. There was just one problem: it fundamentally misunders...
“Every developer has that one post they almost didn’t write…” For 2025, I decided to get back into technical writing. I’ve been obsessing over getting AI to actually understand production code. Not just generate it, but really grok what’s happening in a mature codebase. Aft...
The two main business modalities are more different than you expect. When you hit PMF, it's a culture-shift to switch from one to the other.
Recently, I’ve been exploring Claude.ai’s new CSV analysis feature, which allows you to upload spreadsheet data for automated analysis and visualization. In this blog post, I’ll demonstrate how to leverage Claude.ai’s capabilities using Readwise data as an example. We’ll explo...
A messy experiment that changed how we think about AI code analysis Last week, I watched our AI choke on a React codebase - again. As timeout errors flooded my terminal, something clicked. We’d been teaching AI to read code like a fresh bootcamp grad, not a senior developer. ...
Last month, I asked Claude to help refactor a React component. The code it wrote was beautiful - clean, well-documented, following all the best practices. It also quietly broke our error tracking system, removed a crucial race condition check (that admittedly looked like a bu...
Hi, Wojtek here. Let’s explore the first changes of the new year in the Rails codebase. Introduce versions formatter for the schema dumper It is now possible to override how schema dumper formats versions information inside the structure.sql file. Currently, the versions are ...
There is beauty in having goals and in aiming to achieve them. This idea is perfectly captured by Jim Rohn’s quote: “Become a millionaire not for the million dollars, but for what it will make of you to achieve it.” This wisdom suggests that humans need goals to reach them a...
It is true that small changes can have enormous effects? Or is this just what optimization consultants want us to believe?
Sourced on Twitter and cleaned up using Claude. Restaurants in Coimbatore Vegetarian Restaurants Annapoorna Known for excellent South Indian breakfast, coffee, and their signature rose milk Nagercoil Arya Bhavan Specializes in traditional v...
[Cut off date: 25 January 2024] A bunch of folks asked on x dot com how I put together this year-in-review thing. Figured I’d dump my brain here – might be useless for designers, but maybe the non-design crowd will find it interesting? Lately, I’ve been kinda fixated...
This is Greg, Vipul, Wojciech, and Zzak, bringing you the summary of what happened with Rails in the past year. It was a busy year with close to 4000 commits from 555 contributors and 50 releases, including Rails 8! For this year end issue, as a team we each hand-picked some ...
I visit my in-laws and parents once a year. That’s it. Two trips. So I’ve been thinking about how to make these visits more than just obligatory check-ins. The thing about memories is that they’re made up of moments that stand out. My MIL loves cooking for us. The way her fa...
A friend was telling me the other day about why Google snapped up Character AI. Apparently, the big deal wasn’t just the cool AI girlfriends everyone were chatting to, but that they’d cracked the code on running these things without costing a fortune. Like, doing the AI magic ...
How do you find potential customers to interview before you have a product, a website, or even a name?
Follow these people on x dot com: samdape, luusssso, FonsMans, mariapicasso, hanslorei, laurentdelrey, realvjy, marty, rjonesy. Pages: spottedinprod, viewportui, makerstations, LogoArchive, 60fpsdesign, eightbitstories, 4AAAAart. Places to discover new art and designs: arena...
Why Traditional AI Communication Falls Short Getting consistent, well-structured responses can be challenging when working with LLMs. Traditional prompting often leads to unpredictable results, making relying on AI assistance for complex tasks difficult. While exploring prompt...
A peaceful year of steady progress on my craft and health.
I was having this interesting debate with a friend recently about whether product folks need to go deep into the AI weeds. His argument was pretty straightforward: the fundamentals of product management - understanding users, driving activation, figuring out monetization, runn...
Hi, it’s zzak. Let’s explore this week’s changes in the Rails codebase. Fix “#to_query” to not include setter for nil values To keep the behavior consistent with Rack::Utils.parse_nested_query. # Before nil.to_query("key") #=> key= # After nil.to_query("key") #=> key ...
I was talking to a friend yesterday about AHA moments in products. He is working on the strategy for a late stage unicorn startup. His management feels they have a solid enough product already, they just needed to package it better, explain it well, help users reach that magic...
The future of content and AI is going to be wild, and nobody is talking about it enough. I was watching this episode of the My First Million podcast, and they were talking about these 1-minute serialized video reels. You know, the kind you see all over Instagram. Basically, T...
It’s amazing how quickly a year flies by. It’s a total cliché, but it feels like only a few days ago that I sat by my Christmas tree and wrote last year’s final reflection post. Back then, I was excited for all of the plans the Rails Foundation had in the works for 2024. Rai...
Last week, we published a bunch of new and updated resources to help you learn Rails and learn how companies leverage Rails to build successful businesses. But we also made a few structural and navigational changes to the website that you may not have noticed (yet). The chall...
It’s been a long time coming, many of you have asked for it, and now the wait is over. Today the official Rails merch store launches in the United States and Canada! Explore the first collection here. The first collection is simple and classic: high-quality and comfortable t...
Low on cash but need marketing results? Here are four specific things you can do to grow on a budget.
Building Vue components that handle multiple variations while maintaining type safety can be tricky. Let’s dive into the Variant Props Pattern (VPP) - a powerful approach that uses TypeScript’s discriminated unions with Vue’s composition API to create truly type-safe component...
I have been using advanced voice AI a lot lately. Like everyone else, I am fascinated by how natural the conversations feel. But there is this weird UX problem that keeps bothering me. You are having this deep conversation with the AI about some problem you are trying to solv...
Hey everyone, Happy Saturday! Vipul here with the latest updates for This Week in Rails. Let’s dive in! This week, the Rails Foundation released a series of updated resources to help you learn the new Rails 8 defaults, including a brand new Getting Started Tutorial, a 9-pa...
Hi everyone, I am happy to announce that Rails 8.0.1 has been released. CHANGES since 8.0.0 To see a summary of changes, please read the release on GitHub: 8.0.1 CHANGELOG To view the changes for each gem, please read the changelogs on GitHub: Action Cable CHANGELOG A...
Rails 8 is a major milestone, and for the first time in Rails’ history, thanks to the support of the members of the Rails Foundation, we are able to support this major release with new and updated tutorials, videos, and guides to help developers learn Rails’ new default featur...
So, I’ve been thinking a lot about Sierra recently. If you don’t know, Sierra is this AI startup that’s got Bret Taylor at the helm. And I’ve got to say, I’m pretty bullish on what they’re doing around AI agents. I also found myself nodding while reading their post on pricing...
Today, the Rails Foundation is releasing the first of many case studies that will showcase how companies use and build with Rails. To kick off this series, we’re highlighting the story of why Doximity chose Rails in 2010, and how they’ve been building and scaling their origina...
Brittleness is when the company fails because just one component breaks. Learn some strategies for fixing Brittle Points.
How the sharing of 1M Bluesky posts uncovered the strong anti-AI sentiment on Bluesky.
1. Wake up early"Find a reason to wake up early daily: For not oversleeping, to be successful, build a house, save for kids, study on topics I really wanted to, build something, do something that changes this world a better place."2. Daily sunrise routine"See sunri...
Our emotional baggage and experience make us unique, but also serve as blinders.
With regard to writing, there are many rules and also no rules at all.
Storya wasn’t just a startup; it was a dream. Paolo and I set out to build a platform where writers and readers could connect. Competing with Wattpad and Amazon Kindle seemed impossible. But we believed in impossible things.Paolo posted a job on Upwork with “Storya...
The way LLMs work is amazing, it's not a calculator at all, but it's still not intelligence, or is it really. We are still trying to find what it is. Currently, it's a blackbox, just like our brains. We know our brain has signals passing, some material or electrica...
A database schema isn’t just a structure. It’s the foundation of adaptability.If it’s rigid, it breaks. If it’s flexible, it grows.It should work like the space-time continuum. Fluid, responsive, limitless.Like space-time bends to gravity, a schema must bend to new...
TLDR Set up SQLite WASM in a Vue 3 application for offline data storage Learn how to use Origin Private File System (OPFS) for persistent storage Build a SQLite query playground with Vue composables Implement production-ready offline-first architecture Compare SQLite vs Index...
Even if you get the blueprint of how to build a product from scratch.You will not really build it.Why?Because, you either have been jumping ideas or you have no passion about it.Here's my learnings on how passion really works.I built so many products in the past 13...
Erica Douglass sold her company for $1M, yet still struggles with self-worth; why driven people can't escape Impostor Syndrome.
Benefits of running a weekly paper club, how to start one, and how to read and facilitate papers.
Half of your "successful" A/B tests are false-positives. This is why, and how to fix it.
Setting up my new MacBook Pro from scratch
What do you guys think about this email? I’m trying to make the welcome/confirmation email a little personal. https://t.co/1QI6l21OVw
Didn't knew it would be this easier to generate chapters on my youtube video. It was just couple of clicks and it's pretty accurate. Thanks to @niyonx for building timeskip. Works great and dead simple to use. https://t.co/fT1bi7krLe
— This dash is a dead giveaway that your post is ChatGPT generated. Review your post, try to make it genuine. Even if your post looks shit at the beginning, writing those yourself is important to develop a writing habit.
One advice for reddit growth. Follow community rules.
I don’t know who planted the seed of 10k MRR by doing indie hacking. It’s a huge misunderstanding. Figure out what is your expenses and set a number that you would be happy to hit in next few months. Your first salary isn’t the same as the one you have 10 years later.
I opened Reddit and scroll after years, here’s what I found. 1. My feed is full of nonsense “Popular near you” 2. List of “Join communities” after every few posts 3. “Suggested” posts that are 100x irrelevant 4. I’m atleast okay with Ads after every 2 posts Seems like it’s n...
Applying Pascal's Wager: Humility wins, arrogance loses.
It's easier to come up with ideas, but it's harder to build systems and discipline to make it work. That's where a lot fail and go back to 9-5.
Branches CreationNew Feature example: You create new CRUD APIs for blogsft/task-shortened-name (ft/blog-crud)branch out from staging always, unless it is specified which branchbranch out from a dependant feature branch, if the old feature is still not mergedBu...
I'm not going back to notion, medium, or any other platforms to create blog posts anymore. I had to share this document that I wrote a while ago, sleeping on notion. I thought, why not just create a blog post under my own website and it just worked. https://t.co/QwKhZB9o0k
Is everyone really moving to bluesky? I see it's trending crazy!
What do you guys think? I’m inclined to the concept of generosity. So, I want to provide a free plan, minimal personal website with custom domain. But, I’m also confused if there are too many free signups who don’t use the product, I’m not growing. I’ll definitely have a h...
How are you repurposing your content?
Do you use noreply or yourname@domain.com when you are sending confirmation email?
Have been delaying public launch a lot lately, I was planning for a marketing/sales this week, but seems like I am going to go full on engineering week.
When I reduced/stopped replying, I started to feel that I am contributing less to the community. I'm going to spend sometime replying thoughtfully this week.
If resume is your voice, personal brand is your echo in the world.
I used to look at people with 5000 posts in their profile and was thinking, how would someone post so much. But, I reached 5k posts now, which I think it probably took 3-4 months from 2k to 5k.
I don’t remember when was the last time I took 5 days vacation. I was off from last Wednesday until Sunday. I’m back. It’s Monday and a new month too. Going to set some goals today and get those done.
Is it LTV? Retention? NRR? Magic Number? Rule of 40? Or: Do you need to un-ask the question.
ML systems, production & scaling, execution & collaboration, building for users, conference etiquette.
I wish LLMs learn to fine tune based on the chat that I do and accept/reject the answers. This way it can learn more on my behavior and how I like to do things, rather than keeping it very generic. And definitely without “dumb” filters.
The more you talk about the problem your product is solving. The more you will get better at solving.
I just got blown away by NotebookLM and it's podcast feature. Anyone else saw the quality of it? It's just amazing! Just feels very natural.
Tech support isn't just troubleshooting; it's the face of your company. Which means it's your brand, your positioning, and when it's excellent, it is sales.
Why You Need Theme-Aware Technical Diagrams in Your Astro Blog Technical bloggers often face a common challenge: creating diagrams seamlessly integrating with their site’s design system. While tools like Excalidraw make it easy to create beautiful diagrams, maintaining their v...
Look at and label your data, build and evaluate your LLM-evaluator, and optimize it against your labels.
Introduction The path to better testing starts with something surprisingly simple: how you name your tests. Good test names: Make your test suite more maintainable Guide you toward writing tests that focus on user behavior Improve clarity and readability for your team In thi...
A contrarian look at logical "fallacies" that maybe aren't so illogical after all.
Table of Contents Open Table of Contents Introduction Understanding the Basics of Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) Prerequisites for Building a PWA with Vue 3 and Vite Step 1: Setting Up the Vue Project Step 2: Create the needed assets for the PWA Step 3: Configuring Vite for PWA ...
Take control of your time and supercharge your productivityContinue reading on New Writers Welcome »
You're afraid that looking like being a small company means you'll lose sales. It's actually the opposite -- you're alienating your best customers.
Brett Hall and I interview David Deutsch, physicist and author of The Beginning of Infinity. Also see The Deutsch Files I, II, and III. Naval: I can only start with what understanding I want. And I know I’ve asked you this before, but I want to be pedantically exhaustive a...
Introduction Clear writing requires clear thinking. The same is valid for coding. Throwing all components into one folder may work when starting a personal project. But as projects grow, especially with larger teams, this approach leads to problems: Duplicated code Oversized,...
Startups fail at biz dev because their proposals don't make sense to bigger companies. Here's how to adjust your approach.
Introduction Presentations plague the middle-class professional. Most bore audiences with wordy slides. But AI tools promise sharper results, faster. Let’s explore how. The Birth of Bolt StackBlitz unveiled Bolt at ViteConf 2024. This browser-based coding tool lets developers...
Not "enabling constraints", not "weaknesses", not even "strengths". The concept of a "Pivot Point" grapples with the same reality, but more constructive and useful.
Most of the time you don’t need to worry about scale in the beginning. A lot of early stage companies end up spending way too much time focusing on scalable infra such as setting up microservices, kubernetes, service meshes, and unnecessarily complicated networking setups. Get...
Economical Writing Deirdre N. McCloskey Academic Writing 2019 ★★★★★ Introduction I always look for ways to improve my writing. Recently, I found Deirdre McCloskey’s book Economical Writing through an Instagram reel. In this post, I share 10 useful rules from the boo...
What’s the Problem? Let’s say you have a big TypeScript object. It has objects inside objects. You want to get all the keys, even the nested ones. But TypeScript doesn’t make this easy. Look at this User object: type type User = { id: string; name: string; address:...
Market Your Build is my first foray into building small projects in public. It is the first of many ideas I want to release into the world. The IdeaMy goal was to come up with a simple idea that could be implemented very quickly over a weekend. I didn’t want to deal with imple...
A short pep talk I delivered to kick off a Three-Day Startup challenge event. And overwhelming confirmation that the lesson is correct.
Elevate Your Astro Code Highlights with TypeScript Snippets Want to take your Astro code highlights to the next level? This guide will show you how to implement TypeScript snippets with hover-over type information, making your code examples more interactive and informative. Pr...
Being a human judge at the Weights & Biases LLM-as-a-Judge Hackathon
A friend of mine reached out to me and said that Substack is deboosted on X. This means that whenever I post content on X the algorithm will automatically make it so my post doesn’t show up properly. So what did I do?I’m not one to fall to the whim of platforms and knew that i...
Consistency is underrated and often seen as boring. How can we be more consistent?Consistency wins long termWhen I used to work at a well-known large rideshare company the top engineers there would consistently show up and deliver value. They always made good on their promise...
Often times security can be an afterthought for early stage startups and side projects. A founder or builder may not think they need to secure their users especially when they don’t have very many users in the first place. Many times security isn’t properly addressed until the...
The journey starts here, with the first step…I have never been consistent with blogs nor have I ever been consistent with completing my side projects. I’ve worked as an engineer in Silicon Valley for the past 7 years working in two large well known companies. Over the years I ...
Discover how to leverage the wisdom of the crowds, but also when to avoid it, as it can easily lead you astray.
Humans have always tried to live forever. Maybe you can, but not in the way you imagine.
FastAPI, FastHTML, Next.js, SvelteKit, and thoughts on how coding assistants influence builders' choices.
Introduction My team and I recently discussed Vue 3.5’s new features, focusing on the onWatcherCleanup function. I found it so interesting that I decided to write this blog post to share insights. The Side Effect Challenge in Vue Managing side effects in Vue can be challenging...
People love and forgive humans, not corporations. Expose your humanity to earn loyal, happy customers, even when you mess up.
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You're not profitable if you couldn't afford someone else to do your job. $1000/mo isn't profitable. Fix your definition of "profitable," and build a truly profitable business.
Photo by Denys Nevozhai on UnsplashWant to change your current situation and start building your dream life?Here are 3 simple (but effective) pieces of advice I’d give to anyone just starting out.1. Don’t Spread Yourself Too ThinTrying to improve every area...
The skills, knowledge, and mindset you need to succeed in business are just a click awayPhoto by Christian Wiediger on UnsplashDo you have a dream of starting your own business but don’t know where to start?Here’s how you can master the essentials and even make ...
It’s not MyFitnessPalPhoto by i yunmai on UnsplashToday, there is an app for just about anything, including finding someone to chop your vegetables (yes, that’s a thing in Dubai!).But when it comes to Diet Tracking, there is 1 app I can’t live without:MacroFacto...
Unlock Financial Freedom with Time-Tested Strategies for ExpatsPhoto by Jamie Street on UnsplashAre you an expat looking to build long-term wealth and achieve financial independence? If so, clear your calendar and read:Millionaire Expat by Andrew HallamHere...
Mid-sized companies: Small enough to have small budgets, big enough for bureaucratic nightmares.
Use cases, techniques, alignment, finetuning, and critiques against LLM-evaluators.
A proven technique that you can implement right nowPhoto by Cytonn Photography on UnsplashMost of us have experienced the fear of asking, whether it’s requesting a well-deserved raise or asking someone to buy your product or service. This fear can be paralyzing, prev...
I had no experience in website design, but after 20 hours of work, I launched my professional sitePhoto by Glenn Carstens-Peters on UnsplashHere’s how I did it:Step 1 — Purchasing Domain & Hosting (2 Hours)I chose Hostinger to buy my domain name and web hosting. ...
Practical Tips for Building Connections and Feeling at Home in a New CityPhoto by Valiant Made on UnsplashMoving to a new country can be overwhelming, especially when you’re doing it alone. The key to settling in and feeling at home is finding your community.When I m...
Discover How to Protect Your Progress and Avoid the Setbacks That Derail Your Hard WorkPhoto by Alexander Redl on UnsplashAfter a decade of chasing fitness goals, this is the most valuable lesson I’ve learned when it comes to losing fat and building muscle:The r...
When to prioritize individual autonomy, and when to standardize for global optimization.
People love to say that getting "1% better per day" makes you 37x better after a year, but this obviously makes no sense. But 2x better is possible.
Introduction Understanding the core of modern Frontend frameworks is crucial for every web developer. Vue, known for its reactivity system, offers a seamless way to update the DOM based on state changes. But have you ever wondered how it works under the hood? In this tutorial,...
It's lazy writing. It's boring and undifferentiated. Say something meaningful, specific, evocative, so your website wins, and you can be proud of it.
"You're so lucky." That's true. There's also decades of sacrifice, emotional turmoil, long hours, perseverance. So… is it lucky?
Dozens of founders have used this technique to transform the cash-flow of their businesses. Now it's your turn.
Procrastination can be a useful tool. You can't do everything. So don't.
What to interview for, how to structure the phone screen, interview loop, and debrief, and a few tips.
I remember "disruptive" when it was called a "paradigm shift." You should be worrying more about making something people want to buy, and less about disrupting everything.
Special double-feature closing keynote from the 6 authors of the hit O'Reilly article on Applied LLMs.
Resolve decision-making conflicts by selecting the right approach: Make a bold choice, synthesize a new solution, or find the balance.
We're told "be yourself" to seek happiness and success. But what if "being yourself" also means striving to become better? What is "yourself?"
On average, you're halfway to your final destination. How, then, do we not only double from here, but 10x?
Is it good to be "first?" It seems so -- what's the point of being a copycat? While "first" sounds impressive, in reality it's often not an advantage.
Challenges and lessons from deploying LLM experiences: evals, scalability, guardrails.
Imagine having complete control over your data in every web app, from social media platforms to productivity tools. Picture using these apps offline with automatic synchronization when you’re back online. This is the essence of local-first web development – a revolutionary app...
Stop talking past each other. Translate between the three "languages" of customer desires, product features, and business goals.
Structured input/output, prefilling, n-shots prompting, chain-of-thought, reducing hallucinations, etc.
Software doesn't scale through architecture and automation alone. New, more difficult problems appear that didn't exist before, causing new downstream consequences.
Creating accessible Vue components is crucial for building inclusive web applications that can be used by everyone, including people with disabilities. This guide outlines 8 essential steps to improve the accessibility of your Vue projects and align them with Web Content Acces...
Quick Summary This post covers various Vue project structures suitable for different project sizes: Flat structure for small projects Atomic Design for scalable applications Modular approach for larger projects Feature Sliced Design for complex applications Microfrontends for...
Is "customer service" a genuine service? Or is it a shield so that most people at your company never have to speak to one of those pesky customers?
From the tactical nuts & bolts to the operational day-to-day to the long-term business strategy.
A simple workshop that evaluates new business ideas relative to your existing strengths -- the key to expanding without overreaching.
Luck always plays a role in startups, but there are ways to better capture upside and mitigate downside.
Introduction When developing apps, there’s often a need to store data. Consider a simple scenario where your application features a dark mode, and users want to save their preferred setting. Most users might be entirely content with dark mode, but occasionally, you’ll encounte...
Even at wildly successful startups, the first few years are gut-wrenching, uncertain, on the brink of collapse, where pessimism is realism, and yet optimism is required.
In America we're trained that all copying is bad; of course plagiarism is, but perhaps we're throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
I’ve been running multiple WordPress blogs for my friends and family on my own VPS since ~2012. I didn’t bother checking them for updates, and surprise surprise they all got hacked. This is my journey of how I fixed it and how the latest version of my blog was born. Hmm, t...
How to tell the difference between a truly great startup idea, and people saying "Sure, sounds good" when they really mean "No, I'm not buying."
Building an AI coach with speech-to-text, text-to-speech, an LLM, and a virtual number.
Why do startups typically fail? It turns out that "avoiding those things" is already a plan for success.
Evals for classification, summarization, translation, copyright regurgitation, and toxicity.
Artists say all colors are a mixture of red, yellow, and blue. But physics and TV screens and printers disagree. How does color really work?
How do you know when to stop, versus when to push through? You don't, not even in hindsight. But these guiding questions can help.
We humans are terrible at discerning patterns from randomness, and in marketing data we unwittingly find "insights" that are actually noise. Here's how to fix that.
The typical dynamics between startups and incumbents do not apply in AI as they did in previous technology revolutions like mobile and the Internet. Ignore this at your peril.
A startup can beat a large, successful incumbent, if it does things the incumbent can not or will not do. Here are those things.
How unit testing machine learning code differs from typical software practices
A/B testing tools often lie about whether something is "statistically significant." Here's an extremely simple, mathematically sound formula to compute it for yourself.
Brett Hall and I interview David Deutsch, physicist and author of The Beginning of Infinity. Also see The Deutsch Files I and The Deutsch Files II. Proving Something About AGI is Inherently Impossible Brett Hall: On exactly that, the fact that the mo...
At Metric, my latest accounting AI automation startup, we’ve built complex interconnected pipelines that query an LLM with multiple transactions and invoices. Of course, the entire flow from beginning to end needs to be tested. Given the manual effort of uploading files and t...
It's easy to explain why any given business will fail. So what? But neither is it wise to totally ignore the critics.
Overcoming the bottleneck of human annotations in instruction-tuning, preference-tuning, and pretraining.
Why "expected value" doesn't work; here's a better framework for making long-term investments in your career, startup, and life.
Table of Contents Open Table of Contents Introduction Understanding Vue Components Case Study: snakeGame.vue Code Sample: Traditional Approach Screenshot from the game Challenges with the Traditional Approach Introducing the Functional Core, Imperative Shell Pattern What ...
What if your company could have only one single advantage over the competition? This exercise will make your positioning and strategy stronger.
Brett Hall and I interview David Deutsch, physicist and author of The Beginning of Infinity. Also see The Deutsch Files I. The universality of computation and explanation Naval: So let’s go through The Fabric of Reality—the four theories. Feel free to sta...
Introduction: Understanding TypeScript and Its Challenges TypeScript enhances JavaScript by adding stricter typing rules. While JavaScript’s flexibility enables rapid development, it can also lead to runtime errors such as “undefined is not a function” or type mismatches. Type...
Some things appear to be mistakes, but in fact should be celebrated as the expected outcomes of great decisions.
How do you assess forecasts, when the forecast is only a probability? It's not just about accuracy. Let's dive into the math.
Brett Hall and I interview David Deutsch, physicist and author of The Beginning of Infinity. New: Discuss this episode on Airchat. Naval: We don’t really have an agenda. There is no goal to the conversation. The closest we can come up with is just t...
Targeting your "Ideal Customer Profile" (ICP) is the best way to differentiate and win sales, but does it limit your target market?
Some fundamental papers and a one-sentence summary for each; start your own paper club!
Customers ask for ROI calculations to justify purchasing your software, but it still doesn't convince them. Here's what to do instead.
An expanded charter, lots of writing and speaking, and finally learning to snowboard.
This eight-step process brought WP Engine from an idea to a Unicorn. While there are other roads to Product/Market Fit, consider copying some of these ideas.
Sending helpful & engaging pushes, filtering annoying pushes, and finding the frequency sweet spot.
Introduction TypeScript, the popular statically-typed superset of JavaScript, offers an array of advanced type manipulation features, enhancing the development experience with strong typing. One of the intriguing aspects of TypeScript is its use of square brackets [] in variou...
Hiring even one person creates a lot less profit than you'd think, and launching a product rarely works out. Here are some tips for consulting companies.
If we happened to evolve with nine fingers, we would have "Top 9" lists. So, a "Top 10" list probably doesn't have the correct number of things.
Everyone wants change, but doesn't want to change. Though inevitable, change is uncomfortable and exhausting. Manage it with kindness.
Traditional fairytale structure fits naturally in our brains, and thus can guide strategic problem-analysis, and a plan that everyone understands.
Introduction Hello, everyone; in this blog post, I want to help you better understand how to test a composable in Vue. Nowadays, much of our business logic or UI logic is often encapsulated in composables, so I think it’s important to understand how to test them. Definitions B...
Blogger with tens of thousands of subscribers launches a new venture… and gets only 2 signups. Not the advantage you thought it was.
Introduction In the dynamic world of software development, robust error handling isn’t just best practice; it’s essential for reliable software. Well-written code may face unexpected challenges, particularly in production. As developers, preparing our applications to gracefull...
What marks the moment when you become a "real" company?
Companies that achieve Product/Market Fit -- both self-funded and VC-funded -- exhibit the same prototypical metrics curves and subjective experiences.
How to use open-source, permissive-use data and collect less labeled samples for our tasks.
Reflecting on selling Smart Bear in 2007, offering insights for entrepreneurs facing similar decisions.
Some of the most enticing, important metrics are impossible to measure, even after the fact. Here's how to identify and avoid this trap.
"Building in public" is popular: How fun when strangers cheer you on! But isn't competitive advantage ruined when competitors know your growth rate and steal your source code?
The biggest deployment challenges, backward compatibility, multi-modality, and SF work ethic.
Evals, retrieval-augmented generation, guardrails, and collecting feedback; all that good stuff.
Is everyone working very hard, all the time, and yet accomplishing 1/10th of what it seems they should? Maybe this is why.
"Focus" requires saying "no" to most things, but there's a way to do it that allows you to say "yes" exactly when it matters most.
These forces make larger companies slower and more difficult to execute, but also more effective when harnessed and leveraged.
What is it like to reach the pinnacle of success? Is that where you attain happiness and fulfillment? Or are those found right here, right now.
Introduction The release of Vue 3 ushered in a transformational change, moving from the Options API to the Composition API. At the heart of this transition lies the concept of “composables” — modular functions that utilize Vue’s reactive features. This change has injected grea...
Language shapes our perception of setbacks. Use words other than "failure" to describe situations and to suggest the next step.
"MVP" implies a selfish process, abusing customers so you can "learn." Instead, make the first version SLC: Simple, Loveable, and Complete.
Reference, context, and preference-based metrics, self-consistency, and catching hallucinations.
An objectively "worse" strategy can win, if it leverages something unique or unexpected. Startups can use this concept to beat incumbents.
Most high-performing people experience Impostor Syndrome. I did too. When you understand the cause, you can defeat it.
Most so-called "strategies" are vague, wishful thinking, written once and never seen again. Don't do that. These are the characteristics of great strategy.
Distinguishing problems with external vs. internal LLMs, and data vs non-data patterns
Brett Hall and I interview David Deutsch, physicist and author of The Beginning of Infinity. Also see Part 1. Popper’s Impact Brett Hall: One of the other things that is counterintuitive—and one of the misconceptions that I see crop up out there in academia, intellectua...
Many founders experience a profound and prolonged sadness after selling their company. But "not selling" might be worse. Maybe my story will help you.
Being "in control" is impossible, perhaps not even desirable. Being "in command" is ideal: honest, introspective, agile, aware, and proactive.
Evals, RAG, fine-tuning, caching, guardrails, defensive UX, and collecting user feedback.
Beware of advice that tries to change who you are. True wisdom guides you to a better version of yourself.
A novel system for selecting and presenting product KPIs, satisfying not only the product team, but also stakeholders, executives, and customers.
Advice from "successful entrepreneurs" might be unreliable due to Survivor Bias. What's real, and what's random?
Don't use phrases like "unlikely" or "almost certainly." Here's real-world data showing why not, and what to do instead.
Discounting is the typical sales technique, but refusing to discount can lead to a much better business, even in the Enterprise.
Leveraging strengths -- not "fixing weaknesses" -- is how to win. Better when differentiated. Best when durable. Here's how to create leverage.
Fast, or Best? Choose your decision-making goal wisely, especially if you're a natural perfectionist.
Writing drafts via retrieval-augmented generation. Also reflecting on the week's journal entries.
This simple method positions your product to be more valuable, especially against competitors who aim to disrupt you, or you them.
Everything about a startup changes over time. The few things that don't, are its essence. The voyage is meaningless, unless you decide what those things are.
This fresh take on "Willingness-to-Pay" analyzes three types of customer motivation, leading to superior strategies for growth that also better the world.
What's the big deal, intuition on query-key-value vectors, multiple heads, multiple layers, and more.
Introduction Navigating the complex world of composables initially posed quite the challenge. Understanding this powerful paradigm was a task in itself, let alone discerning the division of responsibilities between a composable and its consuming component. A particular aspect ...
No you can't "have it all." You can have two things, but not three.
A business always takes more money than you expect, even when you take this fact into account. Here's why.
A startup is a crucible -- a fiery place that tests your limits, not by probing them but by violently exceeding them, all of the time. It's worth it.
It started with a question that had no clear answer, and led to eight PRs from the community.
You can charge much more than you think, if you reposition your value-proposition. Here's how.
Should chat be the main UX for LLMs? I don't think so and believe we can do better.
Are you crying in the shower because you can't handle it anymore? Beyond Impostor Syndrome: Complete melt-down? Well, at least you're in good company.
9 patterns including HITL, hard mining, reframing, cascade, data flywheel, business rules layer, and more.
Many startups fail despite identifying a real problem and building a product that solves that problem. This explains why, so you can avoid their fate.
Generating Dr. Seuss headlines, fake WSJ quotes, HackerNews troll comments, and more.
Accessibility is a critical aspect of web development that ensures your application can be used by everyone, including people with disabilities. Making your Vue apps accessible not only meets legal requirements, but provides a better experience for all users. In this post, we’...
Decisions should usually be made quickly, to accelerate action and learning. But sometimes it really is smarter to take your time. Here's how to decide.
Also, shortcomings in document retrieval and how to overcome them with search & recsys techniques.
Pricing is inextricably linked to brand, product, and purchasing decisions. It cannot be "figured out later," because it determines your business model today.
We dramatically, repeatedly fail to predict the future. Does that mean "strategy" is senseless? No, it means you need these techniques to navigate a volatile world.
Asking LLMs to generate biographies to get a sense of how they memorize and regurgitate.
Writing good instructions to achieve high precision and throughput.
Collecting ground truth, data augmentation, cascading heuristics and models, and more.
I interview David Deutsch, physicist and author of The Beginning of Infinity. Also see Part 2. Background Naval: My goal isn’t to do yet another podcast with David Deutsch. There are plenty of those. I would love to tease out some of the very counterintuitive learnings,...
End of week debrief, weekly business review, monthly learning sessions, and quarter review.
Pilot & copilot, literature review, methodology review, and timeboxing.
How to migrate and sync notes & images across devices
Seeking first to understand, earning trust, and preparing for away team work.
What creates a fulfilling existence? Exploration leads to a framework I've used for years for myself and the people around me. I hope it helps you too.
Travelled, wrote, and learned a lot, L5 -> L6, gave a keynote at RecSyS, and started a meetup.
A quick overview of variational and denoising autoencoders and comparing them to diffusers.
The fundamentals of text-to-image generation, relevant papers, and experimenting with DDPM.
My three favorite papers, 17 paper summaries, and ML and non-ML lessons.
Introduction Loops play a pivotal role in programming, enabling code execution without redundancy. JavaScript developers might be familiar with foreach or do...while loops, but TypeScript offers unique looping capabilities at the type level. This blog post delves into three ad...
Invited keynote at the Workshop for Online Recommender Systems and User Modeling (ORSUM)
A simple but effective system, used to vet what is now a Unicorn, for generating insights about how your potential customers think, what they need, and what they'll buy.
Or why I should write fewer integration tests.
The vaunted "single-threaded, ordered list" confuses "prioritization" with "work-planning," and forces comparisons of the un-comparable. Here's the solution.
Pushing back on the cult of complexity.
Some off-the-beaten uses of Python learned from reading libraries.
This complete work-prioritization framework builds on the simplistic "Rocks, Pebbles, Sand" analogy, adding the details you need in the real world.
Binstack is a technique for selecting the "single most impactful" solution when there are multiple, incomparable dimensions to evaluate.
15 minutes a week to document your work, increase visibility, and earn trust.
Traditional rubrics fail to reveal the best answers, or how to explain those answers to others. After explaining why, the following system solves both failures.
Understanding and spotting patterns to use code and components as intended.
We invented this strategic exercise at WP Engine -- engaging both Marketing and Product, generating actions for both sides that make products more desirable and competitive.
Meetings are most productive when we create something that none of us could have created alone. Here are several ways to use meeting time wisely.
Mindset, 100-day plan, and balancing learning and taking action to earn trust.
Industry examples, exploration strategies, warm-starting, off-policy evaluation, and more.
Industries commoditize over time, delivering similar products at similar prices resulting in low profit. Moats are the antidote; your strategy must create some.
According to the Internet, being a Product Manager is impossible. Can you ever measure up? No. But don't worry, there's a better answer.
Introducing randomness and/or learning from inherent randomness to mitigate position bias.
Haseeb and I interview Vitalik Buterin about Ethereum and blockchains. Also see Part 1. Protocol Politics The elder statesman of smart contract blockchains Haseeb: Vitalik, I want to ask you a little bit about how your role has evolved since ...
Thinking about recsys as interventional vs. observational, and inverse propensity scoring.
This admonition recurs in myriad books, frameworks, and topics, across decades of time. When something is so consistent, it must be wisdom.
Haseeb and I interview Vitalik Buterin about Ethereum and blockchains. Also see Part 2. Transcript Naval: Welcome back to the podcast. We have with us Haseeb Qureshi, who is a partner at Dragonfly and someone I used to work with back when I was more active in crypto-lan...
We know, "no idea is a bad idea," but brainstorming is often unsuccessful. These prompts actually work. They could even lead to a unique business model.
How they differ and why they work better in different situations.
Hard-won lessons on how to start data science projects effectively.
Even Facebook and Slack did not grow "exponentially," as frequently described. Here is the correct model that you can use to understand and affect growth.
A lesson all pilots know: How you must use multiple dials, employing different sources of energy, to report identical data, because some of it is always lying.
I'm heading into a team lead role and would like to define the vision and roadmap.
What to consider for in terms of data, roadmap, role, manager, tooling, etc.
Beyond getting that starting role, how does one continue growing in the field?
Part 2 of my interview with Brett Hall about The Beginning of Infinity. Also see Part 1. With a Good Theory of Knowledge, You Can Decide What Else Is True David Deutsch’s theory is centered around good explanations Naval: David Deutsch has this great view o...
There was a time when coal wasn’t a resource Brett: There was a story on ITV in the U.K. talking about how much supposed waste Amazon produces, that Amazon was routinely destroying a whole bunch of products. I thought, “Why are these people inserting their opinion into a bu...
Daliana and I had a 2hr chat on all things data science and machine learning.
Met most of my goals, adopted a puppy, and built ApplyingML.com.
More than two dozen interviews with ML Practitioners sharing their stories and advice
Susan shares 5 lessons she gained from writing online in public over the past year.
Write before you're ready, write for yourself, quantity over quality, and a few other lessons.
Simple baselines, ideas, tech stacks, and packages to try.
Why this is the first rule, some baseline heuristics, and when to move on to machine learning.
An overview of system design, candidate retrieval, and ranking, with industry examples.
Focusing on long-term rewards, exploration, and frequently updated item.
Why the Amazon applied scientist takes the time to break down his work for readers.
How to generate labels from scratch with semi, active, and weakly supervised learning.
Building semantic search; how to calculate recall when relevant documents are unknown.
Why real-time RecSys? What does the system design look like in industry? How to build an MVP?
Show them the data, the Socratic method, earning trust, and more.
Breaking it into offline vs. online environments, and candidate retrieval vs. ranking steps.
A whirlwind tour of bandits, embedding+MLP, sequences, graph, and user embeddings.
My favourite project, how I write weekly and how you can start, and content I would like to see more of.
How to go from knowing machine learning to applying it at work to drive impact.
An overview and comparison of the various approaches, with examples from industry search systems.
Even high achieving individuals experience impostor syndrome; here's how Susan learned to manage it.
More education, achievements, and awards don't shoo away imposter syndrome. Here's what might help.
What do you deeply care about? What do you excel at? Build a career out of that.
We discussed about how to build and run data teams and engage better with business.
Mike and I take a philosophical detour on Talk Python and discuss life lessons from machine learning.
Short vs. long-term gain, incremental vs. disruptive innovation, and resume-driven development.
I wish I started sooner. All have improved my life and several have compounding effects.
Pointers to think through your methodology and implementation, and the review process.
Three documents I write (one-pager, design doc, after-action review) and how I structure them.
Access, serving, integrity, convenience, autopilot; use what you need.
What the top teams did to win the 36-hour data hackathon. No, not machine learning.
Design and architecture, tech stack, methodology, results, and lessons learned.
What I learned about hiring and training, and fostering innovation, discipline, and camaraderie.
Stop procrastinating, go off the happy path, learn just-in-time, and get your hands dirty.
Why did I start writing? What's my writing process? What's the writing culture at Amazon like?
How to increase the chances of getting called up by recruiters?
Why real-time? How have China & US companies built them? How to design & build an MVP?
A public roadmap to track and share my progress; nothing mission or work-related.
Wrapping up 2020 with writing and site statistics, graphs, and a word cloud.
A short story on flying daggers and life's challenges.
Time to clear the cache, evaluate existing processes, and start new threads.
How he switched from engineering to data science, what "senior" means, and how writing helps.
How did you set up your site and what's an easy way to replicate it?
Data cleaning, transfer learning, overfitting, ensembling, and more.
Interview questions you should ask and how to evolve your job scope.
A personal take on their deliverables and skills, and what it means for the industry and your team.
Setbacks she faced, overcoming them, and how writing changed her life.
What questions do they answer? How do they compare? What open-source solutions are available?
DNS server snafus led to email & security issues. Also, limited free build minutes monthly.
Not 'How to build a data science portfolio', but 'Whys' and 'Whats'.
Step-by-step walkthrough on the environment, compilers, and installation for ScaNN.
Building prototypes helped get buy-in when roadmaps & design docs failed.
As careers grow, how does the balance between writing & coding change? Hear from 4 tech leaders.
Emphasis on bias, more sequential models & bandits, robust offline evaluation, and recsys in the wild.
What if the alternative was nothingness?
What's an average day like? What's great about the role? How's working in Amazon?
For years I've refined my routines and found tools to manage my time. Here I share it with readers.
My tools for organization and creation, autopilot routines, and Maker's schedule
A step-by-step of how to migrate from json comments to Utterances.
Checking for correct implementation, expected learned behaviour, and satisfactory performance.
Should I switch from a regex-based to ML-based solution on my application?
My chat with James Le about my experience, leadership, agile, ML in production, writing, and more.
Why read papers, what papers to read, and how to read them.
Becoming a senior after three years and dealing with imposter syndrome.
How not to become an expert beginner and to progress through beginner, intermediate, and so on.
Examining the broad strokes of NLP progress and comparing between models
Why (and why not) be more end-to-end, how to, and Stitch Fix and Netflix's experience
Updating our FastAPI app to let users select options and download results.
Surprising lessons I picked up from the best books, essays, and videos on writing non-fiction.
Why OMSCS? How can I get accepted? How much time needed? Did it help your career? And more...
I couldn't find any guides on serving HTML with FastAPI, thus I wrote this to plug the hole on the internet.
Ever revisit a project & replicate the results the first time round? Me neither. Thus I adopted these habits.
It's not enough to have a good strategy and plan. Execution is just as important.
I wanted to add my recent writing to my GitHub Profile README but was too lazy to do manual updates.
I thought giving it my all led to maximum outcomes; then I learnt about the 85% rule.
Part II of the previous write-up, this time on applications and frameworks of Spark in production
Sharing my notes & practical knowledge from the conference for people who don't have the time.
Does DS have business requirements? When does it make sense to split DS and DE??
After this article, we'll have a workflow of tests and checks that run automatically with each git push.
A curious discussion made me realize my expert blind spot. And no, Airflow is not late.
Haste makes waste. Diving into a data science problem may not be the fastest route to getting it done.
Initially, I didn't like it. But over time, it grew on me. Here's why.
Crocker's Law, cognitive dissonance, and how to receive (uncomfortable) feedback better.
Can maintaining machine learning in production be easier? I go through some practical tips.
I thought deploying machine learning was hard. Then I had to maintain multiple systems in prod.
An expansion of my Twitter thread that went viral.
What I Learnt about evaluating ideas from first-hand participation in a hackathon.
What I learned about measuring diversity, novelty, surprise, and serendipity from 10+ papers.
Why you should give a talk and some tips from five years of speaking and hosting meet-ups.
Should I join a start-up? Which offer should I accept? A simple metaphor to guide your decisions.
Using a Zettelkasten helps you make connections between notes, improving learning and memory.
Writing begins before actually writing; it's a cycle of reading -> note-taking -> writing.
Automate your experimentation workflow to minimize effort and iterate faster.
How hard work, many failures, and a bit of luck got me into the field and up the ladder.
Comparing baselines (matrix factorization) against novel approaches using graphs & NLP.
Beating the baseline using Graph & NLP techniques on PyTorch, AUC improvement of ~21% (Part 2 of 2).
Another year complete. Here’s a quick recap of 2019, which also happened to be one of the craziest years of my life. As always, this Annual Review will answer three questions. What went well this year? What didn’t go so well this year? What did I learn? Before we begin, it i...
Building a baseline recsys based on data scraped off Amazon. Warning - Lots of charts! (Part 1 of 2).
OMSCS CS6200 (Introduction to OS) - Moving data from one process to another, multi-threaded.
One year ago today, Atomic Habits was born. The last 12 months have been a wild ride: 1.1 million copies sold worldwide 12 consecutive months on the New York Times best seller list (currently #3) Repeated appearances on the Audible, Wall Street Journal, and USA Toda...
In-depth sharing on how to put machine learning systems into production.
Keynote on how Asia's tech giants scale and their SuperApp strategy.
OMSCS CS6750 (Human Computer Interaction) - You are not your user! Or how to build great products.
Moving off wordpress and hosting for free on GitHub. And gaining full customization!
OMSCS CS6440 (Intro to Health Informatics) - A primer on key tech and standards in healthtech.
OMSCS CS7646 (Machine Learning for Trading) - Don't sell your house to trade algorithmically.
No, you don't need a PhD or 10+ years of experience.
The ultimate productivity hack is saying no. Not doing something will always be faster than doing it. This statement reminds me of the old computer programming saying, “Remember that there is no code faster than no code.” 1 The same philosophy applies in other areas of life. F...
How we built an ML system to predict hospitalization costs at admission; sharing at DATAx Conference.
A simple, decentralized, scalable, constant-memory mechanism for independent replicas to record events in time, preserving the "happened-before" relation in almost all cases.
Taking the best from agile and modifying it to fit the data science process (Part 2 of 2).
A deeper look into the strengths and weaknesses of Agile in Data Science projects (Part 1 of 2).
In this article, I’d like to share 30 “one-sentence stories” about building better habits. (They are not all exactly one sentence, but they are very short.) None of these stories are mine. They were sent to me by readers of Atomic Habits. My hope is that these examples will il...
What's the difference between a data scientist, data engineer, and ML engineer? A panel at Google.
This article includes an excerpt from Atomic Habits, my New York Times bestselling book. If you want to stick with a habit for good, one simple and effective thing you can do is keep a habit tracker. Here’s why: Elite performers will often measure, quantify, and track their pr...
From 1986 to 2011, Oprah Winfrey hosted The Oprah Winfrey Show. It was the highest rated talk show of all-time and familiar to nearly anyone who owned a television set in North America at that time. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the “Queen of All Media” built a brand that st...
It’s time for a little reflection and review. Each December, I conduct my Annual Review (this is my sixth year) and I’ve found the process useful every time. As always, this Annual Review will answer three questions. What went well this year? What didn’t go so well this year?...
OMSCS CS6601 (Artificial Intelligence) - First, start with the simplest solution, and then add intelligence.
Yes, Agile can be adopted by data science teams. Moderating a panel at GovTech STACK.
This article is an excerpt from Atomic Habits, my New York Times bestselling book. While researching Atomic Habits, I came across a story that immediately struck me with its simplicity and power. It was the story of Oswald Nuckols, an IT developer from Natchez, Mississippi, an...
This article is an excerpt from Atomic Habits, my New York Times bestselling book. The Japanese railway system is regarded as one of the best in the world. If you ever find yourself riding a train in Tokyo, you’ll notice that the conductors have a peculiar habit. As each opera...
A simple way to implement a “search” feature into your node app is using the database engine to check for presence of tokenized search query. In my case, I’m using MySQL with the Sequelize ORM and needed to add a e-commerce like search form with product results for a client. ...
Audrey Hepburn was an icon. Rising to fame in the 1950s, she was one of the greatest actresses of her era. In 1953, Hepburn became the first actress to win an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a BAFTA Award for a single performance: her leading role in the romantic come...
OMSCS CS6460 (Education Technology) - How to scale education widely through technology.
OMSCS CS7642 (Reinforcement Learning) - Landing rockets (fun!) via deep Q-Learning (and its variants).
Technical challenges easy compared to business and people issues. Sharing at the BDA Summit.
Culture >> Hierarchy, Process, Bureaucracy.
And my idiosyncratic journey to VP of Data Science at Lazada (Alibaba). A Lunchtime chat at INSEAD.
Vue loads content asynchronously, which means that Google’s crawlers won’t pick up your site for indexing. That is, until you give them a rendered version to see. We’re going to discuss a common way to serve content properly for crawlers here, called “Prerendering”. One of th...
OMSCS CS7641 (Machine Learning) - Revisiting the fundamentals and learning new techniques.
How being a Lead / Manager is different from being an individual contributor.
Ghost… I tried. Trust me, I really did. I stuck with you for over 3 years, developed a custom theme on you, hacked around any shortcomings you had. But yesterday, I had to give up. Trying to upgrade from 0.11.x to 1.x had to be one of the most annoying experiences I’ve had rec...
I’ve been looking for a free option for instant RSS to email subscriptions, and while Zapier comes close; the free tier does not support the volume or speed that I require. That’s why I mocked up Sangh. Using Sangh with Gmail’s Filters allows you to have a powerful and well-r...
What is data science, how to pick it up, and how to enter the field? A discussion with SMU undergrads.
OMSCS CS6300 (Software Development Process) - Java and collaboratively developing an Android app.
Sharing about why data science, data science myths, a typical day, and more with TIA.
I don’t know about you guys, but I always have an annoying time trying to figure out how to make Sequelize work — the documentation seems to have a dearth of examples. Here’s a few examples for “common” functionality. Get plain objects instead of Sequelize Instances after bul...
Tools and skills to pick up and how to practice them. An Invited Talk with Masters in IT candidates.
Tools and skills to pick up, and how to practice them.
OMSCS CS6476 Computer Vision - Performing computer vision tasks with ONLY numpy.
If things are not failing, you're not innovating enough. - Elon Musk
Or how to put machine learning models into production.
A web app to find similar products based on image.
Cleaning up text and messing with ascii (urgh!)
How Lazada ranks products to improve customer experience and conversion at Strata 2016.
A simple web app to classify fashion images into Amazon categories.
Got accepted into Georgia Tech's Computer Science Masters!
A card sorting game to discover youl passion by identifying skills you like and dislike.
Parsing json and formatting product titles and categories.
Learning Scala from Martin Odersky, father of Scala.
Guest post of how DataKind SG worked with NGOs to frame their problems and suggests solutions
Sharing about my first data science competition at DataScience SG.