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Andreas Wagenmann

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Freelance Data Scientist & ML/Data/Search Engineer | Speaker | Coach. Former Tech Lead, Engineering Manager. Currently ML/Ranking@Otto_de. Opinions are my own.

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My journey with @o19s has come to an end - I’m looking forward to finding new challenges & opportunities in the world of search and AI. It’s been an amazing 6 years. I’ll be looking for new things to do from 30th Nov - get in touch if you’d like to discuss something exciting!


Agreeing with Doug here. I’ve found the separation of search ops / retrieval and additional ML Algos (such as in a ranking phase) to work very well in practice. It allows focus. That being said: it is essential the teams still communicate.

I used to agree with this, but have changed my mind On most teams infra folks aren't MLEs. They specialize in rock-solid L0 retrieval at high scale. A worst case L0 fallback that has "one dumb job". Its harder to do that with one system that "does everything"



Undifferentiated nonsense of the day.

Offices lead to greater connection, inspiration, community, productivity, and even wellbeing.



This guy clearly has lost touch with reality. Using his platform to spread stuff like that. And then trying to sue marketers for not spending a dime here. Go figure.

The right to bear arms is there to protect free speech and stop a tyrannical government from taking your rights away! That’s why the first thing that all tyrants do is disarm the people, just like Chavez did when he was first elected. After that, no more real elections in…



That seems as correct a statement as it gets :)

People in my replies accusing me of tRUMP Derangement Syndrome couldn't be more correct. I fully believe he is profoundly deranged & proves it on a daily basis.

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Die @AfD und @Buendnis_SahraW sind eine Schande für Deutschland. Umso schändlicher, dass nur 85 Jahre nach Beginn des 2. Weltkriegs möglich wird, dass diese beiden menschenverachtenden Parteien zusammen in zwei Bundesländern durch die Hälfte der Menschen gewählt werden. Schande


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I’m patting myself on the back now for avoiding using Telegram: b/c when I did research on its encryption it sounded fishy back a few years ago. Anyone using Telegram should assume their messages are wide open to eg France, Russia, any other state etc to read. Plus Telegram!


Next time an AI / ML influencer tells you best coding practices and being able to deploy stuff properly can be ignored and that your job is done with analysis and some modelling in your Jupyter notebook, be aware that this attitude will strongly reduce your market value.


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If you’re interested in FP, the PDF of my smaller book, “Learn Functional Programming The Fast Way,” is also free: alvinalexander.gumroad.com/l/learnfp Where “Functional Programming, Simplified” gets into all the gory details, this book gets you started using ZIO as fast as possible.

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Don’t tell anyone, but at least for now, the PDF version of “Functional Programming, Simplified” is free. 😲🥳 alvinalexander.gumroad.com/l/lfpis



Today’s silliest message. What dumb crowd are they counting on supporting the content of it? You made X very unappealing to merchandisers, now take some responsibility.

A Message to X Users



Nice portrait of a living joke that Trumpy is.

A Message to X Users



Glorious. So many bullshit use cases proposed in hype days.

A good throwback on how software engineers at AWS saw no practical value in building blockchain infrastructure, but did it so startups flush with cash raised *specifically* for blockchain could spend it with them. In a gold rush, manufacture and sell shovels. What AWS did!



Every coder out there …

Name other scholars beside Oppenheimer who spent their later years running away from their early work



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Parcel delivery firm DPD have replaced their customer service chat with an AI robot thing. It’s utterly useless at answering any queries, and when asked, it happily produced a poem about how terrible they are as a company. It also swore at me. 😂

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I'll be doing a live-demo of a #Scala concurrency library built on top of #Loom, this Friday on @nescalas! It's online, at a time friendly to most time-zones :) Come and see Project Ox in action! nescalas.github.io/#schedules


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The carbon emissions of the computing industry already exceed those of the airline industry. "There's been such a race to build bigger and better models that almost every secondary consideration has been put aside." #AIEthics news.mit.edu/2023/new-tools…


Nice notes on the VC matter.

WHY YOU SHOULD NOT JOIN Y COMBINATOR YC seems like a reasonable proposition. They give you some money to help you start your business, and they promise you access to a community of people that can help you along the way. In exchange, they only ask for a small amount of equity.…

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Yes. And it’s called saving lives.

Is the German public aware of this?



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I think DRY might be one of the most harmful mottos of software dev. As engineers we’re really good at recognising similarities but awful at considering differences, often resulting in complex abstractions to avoid copying 50 lines of code.


This statement is way too generalistic. Make a case-by-case decision. The statement is based on the condition that the capability is equal and the integration of a new part is expensive without further benefit.

Our main point, misunderstood (willfully misconstrued?) by many is that if you need capability Y (vector search in this case), and you already have X, then upgrading to X' with capability Y is a much easier lift than adding a new system Z.



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