Ascertaining Gender of Github Users to Determine PR Comment Sentiment, or How to Spend Money in the Cloud and Pretend you're a Data Scientist
This is not so much of a SRE post, be ye warned, but it does discuss solving problems creatively. WARNING: Blindly following this will result in incurring costs from cloud providers, potentially quite a bit. It’s not my fault if you don’t calculate how much your task will cost. As an example, had I used AWS Comprehend for my sentiment analysis, I calculated the cost at ~$15,000. Why on earth would you need to know the gender of Github users, you ask?...