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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 10, 2023
> I hate machine learning so much, to the point that I’m almost willing to consider bad arguments against them! But ideally let’s stick to good arguments against them, and see how far we can get.
> I started hating ML from a gut feeling first, and had to come up with arguments and reasons later. Feels over reals.
> The table is in long format. Below we turn it into a table in wide format. We also convert the temperatures to Celsius degrees and we rename the months which are given as numbers in the original data.
> I used to work at a place that had an internal task tracking system. Big deal, you think. Lots of places do that. Well, at this particular company, it was sometimes a pit of sorrow into which you would issue a request and never hear from it again... unless you went to some lengths.
> Let's back up a little to set the stage. It's June of some year quite a while back, and it's about 9:30 at night. I guess I'm on call for the "last line of defense" debugging team, and I get pinged by the manager type who's wrangling an outage. It seems this team did some kind of code push and now they were completely down in some cluster: "0 online users" type of thing.
> [BioBootloader] combined Python and a hefty dose of of AI for a fascinating proof of concept: self-healing Python scripts. He shows things working in a video, embedded below the break, but we’ll also describe what happens right here.
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