The Pragmatic Programmer for Machine Learning

Re:The Pragmatic Programmer for Machine Learning by rramadass on Saturday September 14, 2024 @10:20AM (#41539987)

I am quite surprised there is no discussion here. The book actually gives a nice overview of practical Software Engineering principles applied to ML Engineering and hence of use to regular Programmers moving to ML from other domains. I personally found it quite useful to understand the practices employed in ML Engineering and how it is different from "normal" programming which is where i come from.

Part II titled "Best Practices for Machine Learning Pipelines" and starting from chapter 5 is where the meat lies.

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Re:The Pragmatic Programmer for Machine Learning by nerdponx on Monday September 16, 2024 @04:19PM (#41560315)

It's new to me! It certainly looks good, or at least like something that could be increasingly useful to an increasingly large group of people. But it's a whole book and I have only a few minutes' break to check HN, so I can't evaluate it for quality until I've had a chance to read it (and I definitely will, because it looks useful to me). I assume, being new, few other people have experience with it to comment. And fortunately whenever actual math and code show up, the AI maximalist/doomer blabbermouths tend to stay away.

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Re:The Pragmatic Programmer for Machine Learning by dijksterhuis on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @02:15AM (#41564748)

I’ve had a skim through bits. It look good and thorough for ML Engineer / Data Engineer stuff.

Definitely recommend checking it out yourself, even if it’s only to bookmark for sending onto others as a reference manual.

> And fortunately whenever actual math and code show up, the AI maximalist/doomer blabbermouths tend to stay away.

When I see something mentioning machine learning + engineering, I’m interested.

When I see AI mentioned I automatically discount it as marketing fluff.

It’s worked well as a filter for almost 10 years now (the last hype cycle).

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Re:The Pragmatic Programmer for Machine Learning by FrustratedMonky on Monday September 16, 2024 @06:11PM (#41561610)

came here to ask.

Since I don't know enough about ML to know if this is good, is it as good as the original 'Pragmatic Programmer', to justify the title?

A lot of books rif off a poplar name, so asking if this lives up to it, and worth more time investment to read it.

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Re:The Pragmatic Programmer for Machine Learning by rramadass on Monday September 16, 2024 @09:54PM (#41563220)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41563211

It is a overview of practical issues book and hence an easy read.

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