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Bugs Occam’s Razor

Written by Yegor Bugayenko / Original link on Mar. 29, 2022

For each accepted explanation of a phenomenon, there may be an extremely large, perhaps even incomprehensible, number of possible and more complex alternatives. The principle of parsimony, also known as Occam’s razor, suggests we prefer the simplest one. For example, “I can’t open the door and can’…


Fallacies of AI Driven Coding

Written by Yegor Bugayenko / Original link on Feb. 16, 2022

A few days ago, DeepMind (acquired by Google in 2014) released AlphaCode and self-published a paper explaining how their artificial intelligence (AI) can “understand” a programming contest task written in English and then write a Python, Java or C++ program, which would work in about 30% of cases.…


Academic Teaching is Hard

Written by Yegor Bugayenko / Original link on Dec. 1, 2021

A few months ago I got an opportunity to teach a single course for 3rd-year BSc students at Innopolis University (Russia). The title was “System Software Design.” The size of the group was about 150 people and the duration was 8 weeks. I was supposed to give them sixteen lectures, two lectures per…



Calibrated Achievement Points (CAP)

Written by Yegor Bugayenko / Original link on Oct. 12, 2021

It’s a well-known problem nowadays: how can we measure the performance and productivity of individual contributors who do non-routine creative work? The best examples are research and development (R&D) teams, which usually consist of software engineers, designers, scientists, architects, qualit…