PITA hypothesis
— Brandon Rohrer (@_brohrer_) August 17, 2019
You have the will power to do one pain-in-the-ass thing per hour. PITAs can be anything hard: writing an email you're dreading, skipping the maple bacon doughnut, washing the dishes, lacing up your workout shoes, confronting a roommate.
Whiteboard coding interviews are the new college entrance exam - a separate skill, unrelated to what you’ll do afterward and uncorrelated with how well you’ll do it.
— Brandon Rohrer (@_brohrer_) August 15, 2019
Like computer science, #datascience has only 3 hard problems: the data, the science, and persisting in the face of your inevitable failure and death.
— Nihilist Data Scientist (@nihilist_ds) August 12, 2019
Me at some future job interview:
— Thomas Lin Pedersen (@thomasp85) August 12, 2019
Them: it seems you have build a pretty successful online presence...
Me (hopeful): yeah, I’d like to believe that...
Them: ... by describing the many ways you fail as a programmer https://t.co/OhtUtK5y5p
2012: We can do more than 5 layers whoa
— Chip Huyen (@chipro) August 11, 2019
2013: It works on text too!
2014: Let’s build infras with frameworks & cloud compute
2015: AlphaGo! Singularity!
2016: Wait it’s racist & sexist
2017: Deepfakes scary
2018: No idea how it works
2019: Whatevs time to productize $$$
2020: ??
I couldn't resist getting in on the fun pic.twitter.com/tt5AUZArD5
— Jacqueline Nolis (@skyetetra) August 10, 2019
Client: We'd like to do what big AI labs like OpenAI and DeepMind are doing.
— Chip Huyen (@chipro) August 7, 2019
Me: You mean getting into a $1B debt?
Client:
Me:
Client: So is there any free pretrained model that you suggest that we use?
What developers think happens when they charge their IDE to a dark theme. https://t.co/q7TF5jtSQl
— Chris Albon (@chrisalbon) August 7, 2019
Statisticians say the darndest things. E.g., why does nonparametric mean hugely parametric? Regression means numeric prediction? Why does L1 Lasso reg constraint look like ridge and L2 Ridge constraint look like lasso? Enjoy my fun translations :) https://t.co/DrRLA0K5hS
— Terence Parr (@the_antlr_guy) August 6, 2019
It's weird how once everyone started carrying video cameras in their pockets all the UFOs stopped flying to earth but police started brutalizing black people.
— Al Sweigart (@AlSweigart) August 1, 2019
"Documentation might be outdated" pic.twitter.com/uk8dzxTbZx
— francesc (@francesc) July 31, 2019
If tech bros were the ones to biologically carry babies, I guarantee you there would be at least 20 startups working on how to orchestrate pumping milk with Kubernetes out there today.
— Vicki Boykis (@vboykis) July 27, 2019
