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Make it work, make it right, make it fast
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Make it work, make it right, make it fast

I first heard this phrase from Gael Varoquax [http://gael-varoquaux.info/] (one of the core scikit-learn committers) in a talk[1], and I loved the super-concentrated wisdom of it: * Make it work. First of all, get it to compile, get it to run, make sure it spits out roughly the
23 Nov 2020 1 min read
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Necessary vs Sufficient

Philosophers and mathematicians make a distinction between ‘necessary’ and ‘sufficient’. Air is necessary for human life, but it’s not sufficient. In other words, if you don’t have air then it’s game over. But if you do have air, you still need some other stuff to survive. So
27 Jul 2020 1 min read
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