Ben Frederickson

Really good article on this neverending topic that articulates some of my thoughts that have been too hazy to nail down.

Bike Lanes or Bitcoin? Police or Park Board? Slower Streets or Safeway Megatowers? Choose your position on 12 iconic Vancouver votes from the past 4 years to see which party you are most aligned with. canadianveggie.github.io/vancouver-co... #vanpoli

Nice post about using py-spy to speed up an inference workload at modal: modal.com/blog/boostin...

py-spy now supports python 3.14 and profiling native python extensions on linux aarch64 : github.com/benfred/py-s...

Frame pointers? Frame pointers! peps.python.org/pep-0831/

I just pushed out a new version of py-spy github.com/benfred/py-s... - that includes contributions from 17 different people (!). The new release is up on pypi/crates.io if you want to check it out

What industrial recsys papers have you enjoyed or found useful in the past year or two? Sharing my list: # 1. Integrating LLMs into recsys 1.1. LLM-augmented recommenders • Better Generalization with Semantic IDs: A Case Study in Ranking for Recommendations - arxiv.org/abs/2306.08121

py-spy now has support for python 3.12 and 3.13 in the v0.4.0 release github.com/benfred/py-s... - check it out!