PinnedDev NaginCtrlStackWhy Siloed Monitoring Hit the Wall“The data between the data…is what turns noise into signal.”5 min read·Aug 31, 2022----
Dev NaginCtrlStackRoot Cause Analysis: How can an idea that’s wrong be so useful?What we talk about when we talk about root causes7 min read·Sep 22, 2022--1--1
Dev NagWhat separates us from AI, Part 4: Priors (if you’re not cheating, you’re not trying)Let’s quickly review what we’ve been through.4 min read·Sep 5, 2017--1--1
Dev NagWhat separates us from AI, Part 3: Get Meta (recursive automation, not automated recursion)See Part 1 and Part 2 here.3 min read·Sep 4, 2017--1--1
Dev NagWhat separates us from AI, Part 2: Efficient Search is the Real Goal of AI/MLIn Part 1, we noted in passing that the F1 models are the ‘final output’ of most machine learning endeavors (however you get there). These…3 min read·Sep 3, 2017----
Dev NagWhat separates us from AI, Part 1: The Periodic Table of Machine LearningAI is one of those fields that see-saws back and forth in the public consciousness (sometimes wired, sometimes tired) yet seems to reach…9 min read·Sep 2, 2017--3--3
Dev NagSex, Death, and AnonymityAuthor’s Note: I originally wrote this in February of 2011 for a blog called “The Quora Review”, curated by a mutual friend of the Quora…12 min read·Feb 11, 2017----
Dev NagGenerative Adversarial Networks (GANs) in 50 lines of code (PyTorch)tl;dr: GANs are simpler to set up than you think6 min read·Feb 11, 2017--33--33
Dev NagShort Story: How does a penniless entrepreneur attract gold diggers?Author’s Note: I originally wrote this in March of 2010 on Quora, anonymously. Now that Quora is starting to phase out anonymous content…3 min read·Feb 11, 2017--2--2
Dev NagTough customers make the best fans because…information-theoretic Shannon entropytl; dr: If you can win over the customers with the highest standards, you’ll have an evangelist for life. Here’s why5 min read·Dec 10, 2016----