Data Science Make it work, make it right, make it fast I first heard this phrase from Gael Varoquax (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
Philosophy 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