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Is there an email address where I can send a resume / cover letter if I'm interested in ML at Spotify? Thanks!

Yes, every engineer there has a dev server running a copy of Facebook.

plug for a friend's similar whimsical project: http://www.dayhue.com/

"Likelihood" can refer to both p(param|data) and p(data|param). See [1] for an example of the first, and [2] for the second. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likelihood_function [2…

Both first-come-first-serve and random selection are better ways to admit people to a hackathon than "let's play college admissions committee." HackMIT came up with a nice hybrid s…

Yes, I think that the idea that a hackathon can be "won" is silly too.

Penn's hackathon is by application only. I think this is pretty silly. Here's a quote from a Medium post by one of the event organizers announcing this year's low acceptance rate o…

Right, the choice of 40 as the number of factors was totally arbitrary and unscientific. We tried factorizations with 30, 40, and 50 factors, and chose the one that produced the mo…

All evidence points to the contrary. 34% of Facebook's employees are Asian, but only 19% of managers are. NYT article: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/25/facebook-mirrors-te.…

One reason why bankers might become more dishonest after being primed to think about their jobs is that being a good banker, like being a good used-car salesman, often requires dis…