Early in my career I believed that Tech Writers were a interface role to Marketing and Sales. As a product focused developer, I didn’t understand the true value of Tech Writers beyond cleaning ...
https://richardminerich.com/2022/04/dont-overlook-tech-writers/
Sandy was a brilliant kid. School was a matter of course for her, she got mostly As without any major effort. What made Sandy special though was her affinity for music, and she truly loved it and...
https://richardminerich.com/2021/02/sandy-the-musician-for-sammy-and-will/
The rise of tooling for vulnerability detection combined with pressure driven by Vendor Due Diligence is causing a massive enterprise freezeout for non-mainstream technologies across the board. O...
There is some controversy as to when Scrum was invented, but many attribute it to Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka in 1986. While still new and cutting edge to many companies this 30 year ol...
It’s been a great year for F# with the blossoming of the fsharp.org working groups. It’s been amazing watching the community come together to form a movement outside of Microsoft. This is m...
I recently took a medium sized feature set with labels at work and ran it through some of the most popular machine learning platforms. The goal was to get a feel for each of them via the standard...
https://richardminerich.com/2013/08/all-machine-learning-platforms-are-terrible-but-some-less-so/
In most software domains you can safely stick with one or two languages and, because the tools you are using are fairly easy to replicate, you’ll find almost anything you might need to finish y...
https://richardminerich.com/2013/07/the-promise-of-f-language-type-providers/
Close your eyes and imagine your program as a function that takes a set of inputs and produces a set of outputs. I know this may seem overly simple, but a set of actions in a GUI can be thought o...
https://richardminerich.com/2013/07/on-type-safety-and-representable-states/
Big data is the buzzword de jour, and why not? Companies like Google with huge server farms are doing amazing things leveraging huge amounts of data and processing power. It’s all very se...
https://richardminerich.com/2013/03/bad-data-is-the-real-problem/
As of today I’ve completed my fifth course at Coursera, all but one being directly related to Machine Learning. The fact that you can now take classes given by many of most well known researche...
https://richardminerich.com/2012/12/my-education-in-machine-learning-via-cousera/