When machine learning matters
I joined Spotify in 2008 to focus on machine learning and music recommendations. It’s easy to forget, but Spotify’s key differentiator back then was the low-latency playback. People would say that it felt like they had the music on their...Subway waiting math
Why does it suck to wait for things? In a previous post I analyzed a NYC subway dataset and found that at some point, quite early, it’s worth just giving up. This isn’t a proof that the subway doesn’t run on time — in fact it might actu...Approximate nearest news
As you may know, one of my (very geeky) interests is Approximate nearest neigbor methods, and I’m the author of a Python package called Annoy. I’ve also built a benchmark suite called ann-benchmarks to compare different packages. Anno...What is your motivation?
I’ve been trying to learn Clojure. I keep telling people I meet that I really want to learn Clojure, but still every night I can’t get myself to spend time with it. It’s unclear if I really want to learn Clojure or just want to have lear...Dollar cost averaging
(I accidentally published an unfinished draft of this post a few days ago — sorry about that). There’s a lot of sources preaching the benefits of dollar cost averaging, or the practice of investing a fixed amount of money regularly. The...Why organizations fail
One of my favorite business hobbies is to reduce some nasty decision down to its absolute core objective, decide the most basic strategy, and then add more and more modifications as you have to confront the complexity of reality (yes I...
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