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...
*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
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".
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.
