Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by opportunity cost – if you have a capacity for only 10 words, those are the 10 words you should take – “prioritization is the most value creating activity in any company”. One general, I really like Erik Bernhardsson writing and ideas, I find his posts insightful.
Causal inference tutorials thread – check this thread if you are interested in causal inference.
The (Real) 11 Reasons I Don’t Hire you – I follow Charity Major’s blog since I heard here in ״Distributed Matters” in 2015. Besides being a very talented engineer, she also writes about being a founder and manager. Hiring and is hard for both sides and although it is hard to believe it is not always personal and a candidate has to be a good match for the presented company, for the future company, to the team. The company would like to have exciting and challenging tasks for the candidate so she will be happy and grow in the company, And of course, we are all human and make mistakes from time to time. Read Charity’s post in order to examine the not hiring decision from the employer’s point of view.
The 22 Most-Used Python Packages in the World – an analysis of the most downloaded Python packages on PyPI over the past 365 days. Some of the results are surprising – I expected pip to be the most used package and it is only the fourth after urllib3, six and boto core, and requests to be ranked a bit higher. Some of the packages are internals we are not even aware of such as idna and pyasn1. Interesting reflection.
Time-based cross-validation – it might seem obvious when reading but there are few things to notice when training a model that has time dependency. This post also includes Python code to support the suggested solutions.
Tom Ron 