ML for “poets” — Abstractions, Conceptual Compression, and Commoditization

Osman (Ozzie) Osman
5 min readMay 8, 2018
Two is an abstraction.

One wonderful thing about technology (especially software) is that over time, things that are hard become easy. They become accessible. The hard stuff gets abstracted away at lower-levels, and you can build software faster and more efficiently.

David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) has a piece where he calls this conceptual compression. I’m not…

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