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Software Architect & Engineer / Smart Creative seeking enlightenment. Dad, Bookworm, Polymath .. did I mention I liked books?
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This book is brilliant! It's a fun way to learn and explore maths with Python. This is exactly the way I learnt ML and neural networks back in my PhD days.
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This was my Christmas gift yesterday from the better economist in my household! It is a beautifully illustrated book by @welchlabs: https://t.co/bBJgNW89Fl The book introduces some core ideas in deep learning. It even includes instructions to build your own physical perceptron
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Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries: “It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use
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One of the best gifts I was ever given. When I was twenty-one years old, fresh out of college and about to start my first job, my father gave me a handwritten list of instructions. Here are my dad’s rules for success: > Do at least 10% more than you are asked. > Never, ever,
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5 years old - Dad knows everything! 7 years old - Dad knows. 10 years old - Maybe Dad doesn’t know?! 12 years old - Dad doesn’t know. 14 years old - Dad's gone crazy! 16 years old - Can’t take Dad seriously. 18 years old - What does dad know?! 22 years old - Dad's
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Advanced Data Analysis - Book Wonderful 903 pages textbook , covering data analysis methods, probability, statistics, and linear regression.
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sqlit is a lazygit style SQL TUI for the terminal. It supports 10+ databases (Postgres, SQLite, Supabase, ClickHouse, DuckDB, etc), has query history, autocomplete and more. Peter Adams (Maxteabag on GitHub) made sqlit using @textualizeio and is Terminal Tool of the Week! ⭐️
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The company hired me to lead their "Agile Transformation." I don't know what Agile means. Nobody does. That's why it works. I make $425,000 a year. To move sticky notes. From left to right. On a board. The board is digital now. The sticky notes cost $80,000 in Jira licenses.
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PostgreSQL lets you clone a 6GB database in 212 milliseconds instead of 67 seconds. Here's how... Cloning databases comes in handy in a few situations: - testing migration without touching prod data - spinning up fresh copies for each test suite run - resetting sandbox env
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Repository for learning Prometheus and why/where to use it I find this repo genuinely helpful and regularly visit here for clearing up the basics https://t.co/IBE6rRwqsx
@Hi_Mrinal Where i can learn prometheus
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If you are a coder moving into AI, you eventually hit a wall. It is easy to find tutorials on how to train a model. It is incredibly hard to find resources on what to do next. If you want to build products, not just models, this is the manual:
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If you are using a relational database of any kind, you should read “is query optimization a solved problem?” By Guy Lohman. It’s a classic, and for a good reason. Guy claims that query optimization barely advanced since 1989 because researchers are focusing on the wrong
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6 short books you could finish in a day: 1) Useful Not True by Derek Sivers ~95 pages
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Steven Bartlett just hosted world's leading neuroscientist. Dr. Wendy Suzuki broke down the most evidence-backed protocol to protect memory, focus, and long-term brain health. Her 8 most important insights:
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Two years ago, I came up with a dumb simple demo that shows what happens at the operating system level if we don’t use connection pooling for Postgres. Since then, it’s been recommended even by LLMs, and I keep getting feedback like this: "First time I visualized connection
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