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jdreaver
·hace 3 meses·discuss
I learned recently that Spain uses the same timezone as Germany (GMT+2 currently, according to Google) despite the GMT line passing through Spain. I've visited Spain and did feel like we ate late, but the timezone being "wrong" has made me wonder if it would have felt as late if I knew about their timezone while I was there!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReStructuredText

This format really took off in the Python community in the 2000's for documentation. The Linux kernel has used it for documentation as well for a while now.
jdreaver
·hace 3 años·discuss
The book is a bit more foundational than that. It teaches you about Bayesian statistics, and discusses (among other things) why the concept of binary yes/no statistical significance is usually not the best way of evaluating a hypothesis with data.

However, for your question specifically, the choice of prior is less meaningful when you have lots of data, and presumably a web app seeing hundreds or thousands of requests per second can gather enough data to determine if the canary has a different latency profile than the deployed version within a few seconds. Also, presumably you would use an uninformed prior for a test like that. If I were trying to prevent latency regressions in an automated deployment pipeline I would just compare latency samples after 1 minute with a t-test or something simple like that.
jdreaver
·hace 3 años·discuss
The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles [0] [1]

Easily one of the most interesting and engaging textbooks I've read in my entire life. I remember barely doing any work for my day job while I powered through this book for a couple weeks.

Also, another +1 to Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces [2], which was mentioned in this thread. I read this one cover to cover.

Lastly, Statistical Rethinking [3] really did change the way I think about statistics.

[0] https://www.nand2tetris.org/

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Computing-Systems-second-Pri...

[2] https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/

[3] https://xcelab.net/rm/statistical-rethinking/