I wrote Read My PDF to read my pdf
Because, first, I can, and second, it would be lovely for something like that to exist.
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May 2022 to February 2024
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On ineffectiveness of local search methods in high dimensional spaces
Pairwise distances between points of a Gaussian in high dim. In the previous post, I’ve talked about why starting your MCMC chain at MAP is a bad idea, since High…
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Street fighting machine learning, part 2.
what do you do when your ML model breaks, and you don't know why.
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More on Fasttext for product embedding
Fasttext as matrix factorization, and ideas for coldstart problem in recommendation
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Be real
If you are a scientist, holding the view of realism as a very important mindset for people in pursuit of the truth. Not optimistic, not pessimistic, real.
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Street fighting machine learning, part 1.
Model selection with grandma wisdom, learned from a merchandiser who could smell a bad forecast.
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