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One of our simplest “screening” questions for DS roles at my company is: “your model is 100% accurate. How do you feel?” If the answer is anything other than deep skepticism (Data …

These guys are saying something like 17M thefts in 2017, which to me is a bit concerning and almost incredible, even if they’re off by a factor of 2. I mean, it’s not the end of th…

What I'm psyched about is OpenStreetMaps data queryable with Athena. It's traditionally kind of a pain to convert PBFs to a queryable format.

Apache Airflow defines and runs DAGs in a sane way, IMO. Takes some configuration, but worth it for more complicated projects.

The UK's NHS recently opened up a large amount of its data to Google [0]. In parallel efforts, a company called Nuna is gathering and unifying data from state level Medicaid progra…

Actually a pretty good way to understand manual transmission. Very cool.

Does anyone know whether this is a degenerative disease or a condition one is born with? It's possible the whole brain is necessary for learning, (including learning how to learn m…

Whenever automated transportation becomes feasible, which is on the order of 5-10 years, a good chunk of a multi-trillion dollar market will go to the few players ready to capture …

Original paper: https://groups.csail.mit.edu/EVO-DesignOpt/groupWebSite/uplo... Basically how the "Data Science Machine" works: 1) "Feature synthesis": features related to the targ…

http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.06172

Should there be an intermediary the client needs to sign that the summary isn't a perfect representation of the contract? Kidding, of course. Mostly.

Would love feedback and ideas on the concept. The target audience is lab managers in the live sciences field, and we're looking for beta testers.

I think of it as an arms race between traders and regulators. The more complex the security, the longer it will take regulators to pass rules against its misuse, figure out taxatio…

A) 20% growth in revenue per year is not "flattening out". It's massively exponential growth. B) Google is at the cutting edge of robotics and computer vision. I'd say they are in …

The words "Something All Our Own" come to mind (the name of Grant Hill's collection of African American art). The motivation to defy expectations has been there for a long time, an…

On a similar note: anyone know of a tool for generating SQL queries by example?

This is pretty incredible work. There are SO many modules and they all seem to work very robustly and cleanly. Very impressed.

This is pretty incredible work. There are SO many modules and they all seem to work very robustly and cleanly. Very impressed.

Well, theoretically a brute force universally solves any set of constraints, just takes too long. Intelligence is really only about efficiency and timescales, i.e. the dumbest algo…

I can't recommend a browser extension like Vimium highly enough. It allows you to browse the web efficiently without a mouse. Also: shortcat for navigating OSX dialog boxes, and Di…

Python and NLTK :)

The question that comes up for me at this point is whether there is much that is dispensable about humans when it comes to exhibiting intelligent behavior (running on 100 watts, no…