Monthly Archives: October 2019

Instagram and Python

There is this article in ZDNet about how Instagram, a heavy user of Python, is trying to push for some processes to tame the Python code mess. I find their ideas quite sensible. I am still amazed at how a programming language has taken so much time to develop best practices and mechanisms for big production time.

If you compare it with Java, which is a bit “younger”, the contrast is huge.

Another thing I have been thinking lately is: why do we have so little to show when it comes to version control and general deployment of machine learning models?

Let’s hope there is more movement in the next couple of years.

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French fiction

I had not read French literature in months and I finally got to read Au revoir là-haut by Pierre Lemaitre. It was an excellent book: there is a good plot and, above all, language and character descriptions are superb.

It also helps you understand a bit of France at the end of World War I and what came shortly afterwards.

Here you can watch a trailer to the film, which came up in 2017.