Nick Zadrozny retweeted
In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll introduce how the Elon’s Election Interference Machine™ (EIM) works. Since Musk & his broligarch allies won the presidency for Trump, they’ve now harnessed the machine to interfere in European elections, including the ones in Germany & Romania.
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How to choose the best tool for starting a new project:
1. Toss a coin
2. While the coin is in the air, realize that the tool doesn't matter: what you are experiencing is Resistance
3. Find your courage, ignore the consequence of success, and start,
4. And start, again and again
Something clicked last summer — with a lot of help from the team at @Numtide — and now I'm using Nix pretty much everywhere… in development. Next up: everywhere in production!
Also… send help. I'm developing opinions about Flakes. Does anyone else think the schema here is… backwards? Feels like I'm taking crazy pills, but so much abstraction in flakes seems to be working around the system not being at the leaf of the tree…
Popular search measurement metrics, make sure you pick the right one for your team!
nDCG@10
MRR@k
LGTM@3
WTF@1
Precision@k
Talked to another team today practicing WTF@1. Pretty sure this is the most common method for measuring relevancy.
Bad leaders insist upon "Goals" and "Deliverables" and "Outcomes," then turn a blind eye toward how they are achieved.
There are so many ways to search — interfaces to design, features to identify, data pipelines to scale, results to grade. If you or someone you know likes to write, and is experienced or just curious with search, and wants some paid work in that intersection, send them my way!
Love search and love to write? ✍️
We're *searching* for writers to help us with documentation and Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, and Solr guides.
If that's you, learn more here ↓
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Real-time social co-creation is probably the biggest superpower for focus and productivity than any other solo system I've tried. (Pomodoro, etc.) Programmers who practice pairing and mobbing know this. I wonder how broadly it's used in other disciplines. (Content? Design?)
Classic problem when tuning a recommendation algorithm. Position bias: The top result is the top result because it’s the top result.
This year, Trader Joe’s retired five repeat winners, “making room for some other products to shine.”
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