Category: Decisions
Posts in the "Decisions" category.
The Explore-Exploit Dilemma — Lambda in ML and in Life
In machine learning, there is a concept of explore vs exploit. How often do you explore versus exploit? For example, when the algorithm is doing its supervised learning, you need to know how often to actually utilize the data that you have to get the right result. Let’s say you are trying to classify animals.
Why You Should Pay for Online Services
On the internet, or more specifically, the world wide web, Yahoo search used to be the de facto search engine for many people. Launched in 1994, I personally started to use it on a 56kbps modem connection in 1998.
Buy vs Build, the Perpetual Debate
I used to work with a colleague who constantly lamented how overwhelmed he was by the sheer number of platforms and tools he had to support. It didn’t make sense to me at first, none of these tools were custom-built, yet they were all self-hosted on virtual machines, requiring constant maintenance.