A brief history of Hadoop at Spotify 2014-12-20 I was talking with some data engineers at Spotify and had a moment of nostalgia. 2008 I was writing my master's thesis at Spotify and had to run a Hadoop job to extract some data from the logs. Read more…
Luigi talk tomorrow 2014-12-16 At NYC Data Science meetup! Unfortunately the space is full but the talk will be livestreamed – check out the meetup web page for a link tomorrow. Read more…
Deep learning for… Go 2014-12-11 This is the last post about deep learning for chess/go/whatever. But this really cool paper by Christopher Clark and Amos Storkey was forwarded to me by Michael Eickenberg. It's about using convolutional neural networks to play Go. Read more…
Deep learning for… chess (addendum) 2014-12-08 My previous blog post about deep learning for chess blew up and made it to Hacker News and a couple of other places. One pretty amazing thing was that the Github repo got 150 stars overnight. Read more…
Deep learning for... chess 2014-11-29 I've been meaning to learn Theano for a while and I've also wanted to build a chess AI at some point. So why not combine the two? That's what I thought, and I ended up spending way too much time on it. Read more…
Optimizing things: everything is a proxy for a proxy for a proxy 2014-11-22 Say you build a machine learning model, like a movie recommender system. You need to optimize for something. You have 1-5 stars as ratings so let's optimize for mean squared error. Great. Then let's say you build a new model. Read more…