“In his book Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort, Zipf argues that he has found a unifying principle, the Principle of Least Effort, which underlies essentially the entire human condition (the book even includes some questionable remarks on human sexuality!). The Principle of Least Effort argues that people will act so as to minimize their probable average rate of work (i.e., not only to minimize the work that they would have to do immediately, but taking due consideration of future work that might result from doing work poorly in the short term).”
― Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing
― Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing
“So my primary guideline would be don't even consider microservices unless you have a system that's too complex to manage as a monolith. The majority of software systems should be built as a single monolithic application. Do pay attention to good modularity within that monolith, but don't try to separate it into separate services.”
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“The patterns of success and failure we see among firms faced with sustaining and disruptive technology change are a natural or systematic result of good managerial decisions. That is, in fact, why disruptive technologies confront innovators with such a dilemma. Working harder, being smarter, investing more aggressively, and listening more astutely to customers are all solutions to the problems posed by new sustaining technologies. But these paradigms of sound management are useless—even counterproductive, in many instances—when dealing with disruptive technology.”
― The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
― The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
“Mike Roberts says, “Continuous means much more often than you think”),”
― Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale (Lean
― Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale (Lean
“As an example, suppose we want to translate a text from English to French. The noisy channel model for translation assumes that the true text is in French, but that, unfortunately, when it was transmitted to us, it went through a noisy communication channel and came out as English. So the word cow we see in the text was really vache, garbled by the noisy channel to cow. All we need to do in order to translate is to recover the original French – or to decode the English to get the French.”
― Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing
― Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing
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