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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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Why software projects take longer than you think: a statistical model

Erik Bernhardsson

"People estimate the median completion time well, but not the mean."

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Why is machine learning 'hard'?

S. Zayd Enam

"The difficulty is that machine learning is a fundamentally hard debugging problem. Debugging for machine learning happens in two cases: 1) your algorithm doesn't work or 2) your algorithm doesn't work well enough."

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