Andrei Stoica

When we pursue optionality, we avoid bold decisions. Like anything meaningful, venturing into the unknown is an act of faith. It demands responsibility. You‘ll have to take a stand, trust your decision, and ignore the taunts of outside dissent. But a life without conviction is a life controlled by the futile winds of fashion. Or worse, the hollow e... See more

This situation, where more data is the goal, means there is great collection software and terrible decision making software. We are told to star, favorite, and bookmark everything. Yet, like real life hoarders, we cannot say what exactly we collected or why. Nor can we find any of it. How many times have you spent an hour trying to find that one Ti... See more

Meredith Clausen similarly describes the Roth’s in her history of the Pan Am building:

A large measure of the firm’s success was due, as Richard Roth was later bluntly to explain in his essay, “High-Rise Down to Earth,” to their aim “not to create masterpieces” but to provide buildings that worked efficiently and economically for their clients: buil

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So here is the updated oath:

Full stack development is extremely hard , that is why I will use all the possible means to make it easier

• I will have my browser developer console open all the time


• I will use the network tab of the browser dev tools to ensure that frontend and backend are communicating as I expect


• I will constantly keep an eye on the stat

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What Is Overfitting and Underfitting?

To grasp these concepts, let’s break them down clearly, with a nod to the bias-variance tradeoff, a key idea in machine learning.

• Overfitting : This happens when a model learns not just the underlying patterns in the training data but also its noise and random fluctuations. Think of a student who memorizes test

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College offered a lateral move into another subspecies of suburb: Claremont, California, a town whose entire identity orbits the five liberal arts colleges planted there like orchids in a parking lot. Arizona’s sprawl felt like a spreadsheet, but Claremont was a Venn diagram: overlapping circles of academia, twee downtown boutiques, and streets nam... See more