Weekly Digest #131

Articles

Avoiding the Rewrite Trap

• You don’t know what all this code does
• Someone has to run and modify the old system while you’re writing the new one. But that job sucks, ad they’re likely to quit before you’re done
• You don’t understand what is bad about the old system in order to fix it
• You are justifying this rewrite by piggy backing it on an experimental product or feature
• You have no plan other than “we will rewrite”

Finding and Fostering Great Product Sense

Hallmarks of great product sense

• Lots of Good Ideas
• Structured Product Opinions
• Non-Linear Solutioning
• Easily Testable Solutions

9 Distance Measures in Data Science

Tutorials

Building a Firecracker-Powered Course Platform To Learn Docker and Kubernetes

Tools

awesome-chatgpt, Awesome list for ChatGPT — an artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI

scikit-llm, Seamlessly integrate powerful language models like ChatGPT into scikit-learn for enhanced text analysis task

Off-topic

A Floppy Thumb Drive with a Color File Icon Display

In Tom Hegen’s Aerial Photos, Swimmers and Loungers Texture Two Florida Beaches with Colorful Patterns