Posts

All the articles I've posted.

• A Forecasting Ensemble That Actually Ships

  19 Sep, 2023

  A demand-forecasting ensemble (a classical statistical model, a sequence model, and gradient boosting) that took accuracy far enough to cut inventory hard, plus the boring data problems that mattered more than the model.

• Llama 2 Is Here. Should You Self-Host?

  15 Aug, 2023

  The week Llama 2 dropped, half my inbox asked whether to pull inference in-house. The break-even math, the GPU scarcity, and the on-call tax nobody puts in the spreadsheet.

• Platform Engineering: Paving Roads vs Building Cages

  18 Jul, 2023

  An internal ML platform that dozens of teams actually used, and the one test that told me whether I was paving a road or building a cage around it.

• The Real Cost of a Customer Data Platform

  13 Jun, 2023

  Unifying a customer record across several business units sounds like a data project. It is mostly an ownership fight, and the maintenance never ends.