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patrick_halina

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About patrick_halina

I’m an ML Engineer at Pinterest. Formerly I led Zynga’s ML Engineering team. Prior to that I worked at Amazon in Seattle. I’m based out of my hometown, Toronto. I’m also a big fan of coffee, pastries and hockey!

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    Hey there’s also Canada! We don’t have San Francisco salaries but Toronto tech blows away the EU. With a job offer, you can get a visa in a few weeks.

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    If you can survive the cold, there’s lots of tech job openings in Toronto at top tier companies. You won’t make as much money as the US but you can buy a house in downtown Toronto …

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    RL is a good theoretical solution for personalization: given a user state, select an action that maximizes a long term reward (eg. revenue/engagement.) It’s tricky building the imp…

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    Ask HN: Best Apps/Systems to Organize Reading Material

    Does anybody have suggestions for apps or systems to organize reading materials? Eg. articles, papers, books and notes. Right now I use Pocket, but it's pretty much to read a quick…

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    Absolutely. Art vs. business. If you're happy painting a masterpiece even if nobody sees it, then you only really need advice on how to make beautify art. I think most artists want…

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    I used to work for Zynga. My advice is to think about how you'll gain users. The mobile gaming world is basically user arbitrage. You buy users (via the ads market) for X, and if y…