Technical essays by Max Halford on data science, machine learning, Python, SQL, and software engineering.
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Edit – this post generated a few insightful comments on Hacker News. I’ve also put the code in a notebook for ease of use. Introduction Modern MLOps is complex because it involves too many components. …
Python 3.14 added Zstandard to stdlib; its incremental API finally makes classify-by-compression practical.
Edit – I posted this on Hackernews and got some valuable feedback. Many brought up the fact that you should be able to reuse the internal state of the compressor instead of recompressing the training …