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A few reasons to be skeptical of machine learning

Julia Evans

"why, even though machine learning is really awesome and cool and you can do super powerful and interesting things with it – why you should still be skeptical"

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The Bitter Lesson

Richard Sutton

"The biggest lesson that can be read from 70 years of AI research is that general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective, and by a large margin."

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Legible SQL

Vicki Boykis

Some tips on how to write SQL queries that are legible to other humans.

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