[HN Gopher] The Pragmatic Programmer for Machine Learning
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The Pragmatic Programmer for Machine Learning
Author : rramadass
Score : 45 points
Date : 2024-09-13 10:07 UTC (3 days ago)
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| rramadass wrote:
| I am quite surprised there is no discussion here. The book
| actually gives a nice overview of practical Software Engineering
| principles applied to ML Engineering and hence of use to regular
| Programmers moving to ML from other domains. I personally found
| it quite useful to understand the practices employed in ML
| Engineering and how it is different from "normal" programming
| which is where i come from.
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| Part II titled "Best Practices for Machine Learning Pipelines"
| and starting from chapter 5 is where the meat lies.
| nerdponx wrote:
| It's new to me! It certainly looks good, or at least like
| something that could be increasingly useful to an increasingly
| large group of people. But it's a whole book and I have only a
| few minutes' break to check HN, so I can't evaluate it for
| quality until I've had a chance to read it (and I definitely
| will, because it looks useful to _me_ ). I assume, being new,
| few other people have experience with it to comment. And
| fortunately whenever actual math and code show up, the AI
| maximalist/doomer blabbermouths tend to stay away.
| FrustratedMonky wrote:
| came here to ask.
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| Since I don't know enough about ML to know if this is good, is
| it as good as the original 'Pragmatic Programmer', to justify
| the title?
|
| A lot of books rif off a poplar name, so asking if this lives
| up to it, and worth more time investment to read it.
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