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by bbischof 6y ago
My favorite line in this wonderful paper is: The database is just filled with garbage that is unusable for this project: Fonts that are completely illegible, fonts that are missing most of their characters, fonts with millions of control po
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by bbischof 6y ago
The themed time-intervals suggestion is not unreasonable, but this article is completely devoid of any evidence to suggest its success besides... checks notes Elon Musk running several companies.
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by bbischof 6y ago
I bet they’re not laughing now.
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Semantic colors blogpost and open-source library from Stitch Fix(multithreaded.stitchfix.com)
2 points by bbischof 6y ago|0 comments
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by bbischof 6y ago
This is sorta true, but not quite. Leland McInnes and John Healy (the creators of UMAP), do in-fact have an amazing paper on HDBSCAN, but it's not inventing it. In their paper, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.07321.pdf
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Large Scale Experimentation – Stitch Fix Algorithms Blog(multithreaded.stitchfix.com)
9 points by bbischof 6y ago|2 comments
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by bbischof 6y ago
Like others this returned total nonsense. Not even one remotely close. (I’m a white dude with publicly visible photos online ICYAI). It’s stupid and irresponsible that they have made this publicly available. Hopefully the fact that it’s ter
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Stitch Fix Algo Hour – Leland McInnes Nearest Neighbor Descent(multithreaded.stitchfix.com)
9 points by bbischof 6y ago|1 comments
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Ravi Vakil will offer his rising sea course online(math216.wordpress.com)
2 points by bbischof 6y ago|0 comments
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by bbischof 7y ago
It seems this person is not doing due diligence and some of this is factually incorrect. I’ve been seeing corrections but I don’t recommend trusting this.
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by bbischof 7y ago
My future programming language implements this and GO for better debugging, but the downside is the debugger is named “cotton eyed joe”.
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by bbischof 7y ago
Anyone happen to be a backer and can share updates?
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by bbischof 7y ago
ty
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by bbischof 7y ago
Link dead?
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Simulacra and Simulation; Stitchfix blogpost on constrained matrix factorization(multithreaded.stitchfix.com)
2 points by bbischof 7y ago|0 comments
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by bbischof 7y ago
See also https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/bzldq4/r_1... and https://twitter.com/hardmaru/status/1138678311884738560
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New Schmidhuber Paper on Minimax Games(arxiv.org)
4 points by bbischof 7y ago|1 comments
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by bbischof 7y ago
I love anki, and I love this use of it, but how do you quickly make cards? Especially on mobile?
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by bbischof 7y ago
Almost anywhere on the internet people will respond to this with basically "no, it's extremely inefficient to learn how to program this way", and they're right. But. If you want to learn _other_ things, these books are i
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by bbischof 8y ago
Blue Bottle | Senior Full Stack, Senior Rails, Mobile, Senior Data | Oakland, California | Remote OK | Full time Blue Bottle Coffee is hiring for several Senior developer roles to support our E-commerce platform, Internal Tools, Data Infras
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by bbischof 8y ago
I feel like it’s ok to just say “you dont have to do programming on a analog device”; if they want to write on paper/whiteboard/with a tattoo gun I don't give a damn, but they wont be asked to write actual code. That’s what i
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by bbischof 9y ago
Sorry for the self-promotion but my recent related project: http://bbischof.com/articles/the-route-to-the-top-100/
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by bbischof 9y ago
Blue Bottle Coffee | Several Positions | Oakland, Ca | Full-time | https://jobs.lever.co/bluebottlecoffee Blue Bottle is hiring several engineering roles for rapidly expanding teams. Specifically: - Engineering Manager (Exp
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by bbischof 9y ago
Blue Bottle Coffee's Coffee Match is a recommendation algorithm based on coffee experts' and customer's tastes to select the best coffee for it's customers.
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Blue Bottle Coffee Introduces a Coffee Recommender(bluebottlecoffee.com)
15 points by bbischof 9y ago|3 comments