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- Team Health Check·1 min
Today, I heard Dafna Rosenblum’s (see Dafna’s blog here ) talk on the EMIL (Engineering Manager IL) meetup about “Team Health Check”. It was the first time I heard about the…
12 Debugging tools I wish I knew earlier - it describes more debugging strategies than debugging tools (i.e. minimal reproduction is not a tool). One strategy I missed in this…
Designing Age-Inclusive Products: Guidelines And Best Practices - I have a 91-year-old grandmother who, in the last 10 years, cannot book a doctor's appointment herself as she…
Potential impacts of Large Language Models on Engineering Management - this post is an essential starter for a discussion, and I can think of other impacts. For example - how…
Today I talked about working with missing data at PyCon IL . We started with a bit of theory about mechanisms of missing data - MCAR - The fact that the data are missing is…
Missing data is prevalent in real-world data and can be missing for various reasons. Gladly, both pandas and scikit-learn several imputation tools to deal with it. Pandas offers a…
I just completed “ Cloud FinOps ” book by J.R. Storment and Mike Fuller, and here are a few thoughts - At first, I wondered whether I should read the 1st edition, which I had easy…
I read a lot about FinOps and cloud cost optimization those days and I came across AWS short ebook about data cost optimization . Cost optimization is part of AWS’s…
Women’s health research lacks funding – these charts show how - not a proper tech link but - I liked the infographic very much (it missed some hovering features) and believe this…
Load balancing - excellent explanations and visualizations about load balancing and different approaches. I wish for follow-up posts about caching and stickiness that influence…
- Thoughts on Tech Debt·3 min
I have been thinking about tech debt for a while now and how to address it daily. Few dilemmas for example - Should we update our Python version or a version of one of the…
Last week I gave an extended version of my talk about box plots in Noa Cohen 's Introduction to Data Science class at Azrieli College of Engineering Jerusalem. Slides can be found…
How to communicate effectively as a developer . - writing effectively is the second most important skill after reading effectively and one of the skills that can differentiate you…
Earlier today, I spoke at DataTLV conference about box plots - what they expose, what they hide, and how they mislead. My slides can be found here , and the code used to generate…
Human genetics 101 - a new blog about genetics by Nadav Brandes, who works at UCSF as part of the Ye lab. Reading is very accessible even to non-biologist (like me :).…
I analyzed 1835 hospital price lists so you didn't have to - this post had a few interesting things. First, learning about CMS's price transparency law. In Israel this is a…
- Playing with DALL·E mini·2 min
DALL·E 2 is a multimodal AI system that generates images from text. OpenAI announced the model in April 2022. OpenAI is known for GPT-3, an autoregressive language model with 175…
Visualizing multicollinearity in Python - I like the network one although it is not very intuitive at first sight. The others you can also get using pandas-profiling.…
A while ago, a friend asked me about a topic she needed to tackle – her team had many support tickets to prioritize, decide what to work on, and further communicate it to the…
- CSV to radar plot·1 min
I find a radar plot a helpful tool for visual comparison between items when there are multiple axes. It helps me sort out my thoughts. Therefore I created a small script that…
One of the most common practices today as part of the interview process are take-home assignments. However, though practical and valuable, this practice is tricky and needs to be…
What to Do When You Are Less Productive Than Your Teammates? I know Miri for a while and she has a very unique and sensitive point of view. This post is worth reading even if you…
7 PyTest Features and Plugins That Will Save You Tons of Time - I read many tutorials and posts about PyTest and this is the first time I run into those flags (features 1-5) which…
In the last year and 3 months, I work for Lynx.md. We develop a medical data science platform that bridges the gap between data owners and data consumers while taking care of…
Tests aren’t enough: Case study after adding type hints to urllib3 - I read those posts as thrillers (and some of them are the same length :). This post describes the effort of…