We recently potted some models from Stan to Pyro (SVI on PyTorch), and it’s been reallly exciting (except for the dark corner of poutines), it really has the performance of something being used in production, except the occasional nan explosion.
edit we are lazy and use our GitLab CI/CD to drive model development iteration. It’s not as fully featured as what’s in the article but it’s a zero effort start.
[1] https://medium.com/@gc/ubers-path-forward-b59ec9bd4ef6 [2] https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Uber-drivers-in...
For the same reason, I don't think it's fair to compare the average Uber driver salary to a full-time salary. Some Uber drivers work full-time, but I'd guess most don't. Lots probably only work a few hours a week. Uber provides students/parents/anyone with a way to make extra money on the side.
Also, from the article I linked to, 900k US drivers make $13 Billion a year. So $14k-$15k/job/year. When you factor in that many (probably most) Uber drivers are only working part-time, that's significant income from a super flexible job.
*Disclaimer: I work at Uber, and my opinions are solely my own. We're hiring.
And that was an unforced error, by Silicon Valley. It was in their DNA. They didn't have to give Travis Kalanick, a guy they despised and never trusted, for good reason—They didn't have to give him all that venture capital.
But they saw him as an expendable probe, so they cynically gave him money, to see how much law-breaking he could get away with in the name of their disruption activities.
That was hubris—and nemesis is well on the way."
- NEXT17 | Bruce Sterling | Live from 2027
As far as I can tell, the guy doesn't like America or even representative democracy very much. Take that for what you will.
Though it does have a business model that (did?) flagrantly disregards the law in pretty much every market it moved into.
And we'll see how the privacy thing turns out when they figure out the data they have on millions/billions of people is worth a bunch of money and Wall Street is demanding "more cowbell".
Actually the question was more around "how do you create your models and what do you mean treating them as code", "why slurm and not something like airflow" , "what is the test/performance setup - backtesting, smoke test" etc etc
The Gitlab stuff is easier to understand.
Pachyderm is another one I’ve looked at but we don’t have the sys admin bandwidth for that stuff right now.
And if you use express pools it will always say to go the wrong side of an intersection. I like uber because of the drivers, but their fancy technology is flawed.
They can use GPS data to chart usage metrics, plan pool rides, check for anomalies, and harass journalists, for example.
