The Metrics Brother Hiatus
We’ve decided, after 122 episodes, to put The Metrics Brothers podcast on hiatus. Let me explain how I think about that decision. On October 20, 1974, the Gr...
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[2606.01811] "I've Seen How This Goes": Characterizing Diversity via Progressive Conditional Surprise
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[2606.02022] Ranking vs. Assignment: The Metric Mismatch in Multi-View Object Association
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2606.02022: Ranking vs. Assignment: The Metric Mismatch in Multi-View Object Association
Daily Reading List – June 1, 2026 (#795)
Today's links look at how to handle conflict, a list of ways to be wrong about AI-assisted coding metrics, and the keys to succeeding under a new manager.
Front-End’s Missing Metric: The TBT Window – CSS Wizardry
The TBT Window is the FCP-to-TTI interval used to calculate Total Blocking Time. If FCP or TTI moves, TBT can change even when long tasks do not.
Building Evals for AI Adoption: From Principles to Practice
Mallika Rao explains how evaluation debt silently triggers regressions in distributed AI systems. She shares a five-layer evaluation stack to align metrics dire...
[2605.28767] Principled Algorithms for Optimizing Generalized Metrics in Multi-Label Learning
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2605.28767: Principled Algorithms for Optimizing Generalized Metrics in Multi-Label Learning
[2605.27456] Metric-Aware PCA as a Linear Instance of Geometric Deep Learning
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2605.27456: Metric-Aware PCA as a Linear Instance of Geometric Deep Learning