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Optimizing Slow SQL Queries

Miguel Grinberg

How to fix the most common database performance problems, which are caused by improper indexing, along with examples for Postgres, MySQL, and SQLite.

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Recommendations

Simon Hørup Eskildsen

Cool explanation of computational aspects of recommendations avoiding to "get lost in the weeds of linear algebra".

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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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