diegolo

'Avoid mental mapping: In general programmers are pretty smart people. Smart people sometimes like to show off their smarts by demonstrating their mental juggling abilities. After all, if you can reliably remember that r is the lower-cased version of the url with the host and scheme removed, then you must clearly be very smart.'

life changing, I reread it every now and then

> you sometimes have to write an experiment with a deadline next week.

shouldn't happen. And yes, at the moment is like this - sometime you will have to hack. But if the all community start to push for proper practices, instead of just saying "is as it is" - there will be less papers, with more quality.

If you don't write unit tests how do you hedge the possibility of having bugs in your code?

I think that this is the real problem - in academia there is this idea that learning good practices is like a 'dirty' thing that is not required, while instead it would speed up the work and make it more reliable. if you look at chemistry or medicine, there researches have good practices for managing the lab and respect them.

If you want to talk about machine learning and search you should probably talk about learning to rank (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_to_rank)