PinnedInCtrlStackbyDev Nag·Aug 31, 2022Why Siloed Monitoring Hit the Wall“The data between the data…is what turns noise into signal.”
InCtrlStackbyDev Nag·Sep 22, 2022Root Cause Analysis: How can an idea that’s wrong be so useful?What we talk about when we talk about root causesA response icon1A response icon1
Dev Nag·Sep 5, 2017What separates us from AI, Part 4: Priors (if you’re not cheating, you’re not trying)Let’s quickly review what we’ve been through.A response icon1A response icon1
Dev Nag·Sep 4, 2017What separates us from AI, Part 3: Get Meta (recursive automation, not automated recursion)See Part 1 and Part 2 here.A response icon1A response icon1
Dev Nag·Sep 3, 2017What separates us from AI, Part 2: Efficient Search is the Real Goal of AI/MLIn Part 1, we noted in passing that the F1 models are the ‘final output’ of most machine learning endeavors (however you get there). These…A response icon1A response icon1
Dev Nag·Sep 2, 2017What separates us from AI, Part 1: The Periodic Table of Machine LearningAI is one of those fields that see-saws back and forth in the public consciousness (sometimes wired, sometimes tired) yet seems to reach…A response icon3A response icon3
Dev Nag·Feb 11, 2017Sex, Death, and AnonymityAuthor’s Note: I originally wrote this in February of 2011 for a blog called “The Quora Review”, curated by a mutual friend of the Quora…
Dev Nag·Feb 11, 2017Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) in 50 lines of code (PyTorch)tl;dr: GANs are simpler to set up than you thinkA response icon34A response icon34
Dev Nag·Feb 11, 2017Short Story: How does a penniless entrepreneur attract gold diggers?Author’s Note: I originally wrote this in March of 2010 on Quora, anonymously. Now that Quora is starting to phase out anonymous content…A response icon2A response icon2
Dev Nag·Dec 10, 2016Tough customers make the best fans because…information-theoretic Shannon entropytl; dr: If you can win over the customers with the highest standards, you’ll have an evangelist for life. Here’s why