this is actually deeply irritating to me ive worked at lots of tech companies large and small in data/ml roles you have to understand every one of them is held together with the equivalent of duct tape and fortuitously growing barnacles, no one understands how the systems workhttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1106374706674847745 …
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in 2015 or so I did some data pipelining at Amazon, the premier cloud data place most of my time was spent building and refining a script that let me work around problems inherent to their *internal* ETL platform go and ask an AMZN veteran about data warehouse they might cry
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every product team has their own algorithms and often the use of these algorithms is to undermine algorithms operating on another part of the site over which a team has no control most of these algorithms were written by people who left the company and left no documentation
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I’m pretty sure I’ll have nightmares about this tonight, thank you
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at first glance I thought it was a weird pouch stomach he flipped out over the sheets but now I see
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Oh nooo well that explains your horrified reaction Here is Penelope for your troubles Not thrilled about the camera tbhpic.twitter.com/RYpCOIjqou
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Omg I’m sorry Penelope isn’t thrilled about the camera but I’M THRILLED ABOUT HER she is perfect
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