@BenjoLondon

Machine learning researcher; scientist at Amazon Music. Don’t tweet much. https://xitter.cf/t.co/HFgx4qsjVI

 Seattle, WA
Joined September 2012
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the most important thing about 1993 is that it was an amazing year for music
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What this program needs more of, IMO, is people committed to empirically grounded theory.
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Offline RecSys evaluation is notoriously hard to get right. Unobserved confounders are often overlooked, but make it even harder. Check out the teaser for my @CONSEQUENCES_ws talk at #RecSys2023 w/ @BenjoLondon! @ACMRecSys @sharechatapp @AmazonScience youtu.be/kbxhZE6Gwto?si=JlOV…
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Damn iPhone keyboard Makes all my text messages Come out as haikus
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GO BIRDS! 🦅
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Thank goodness iOS can edit sent messages! Now I can stop texting about all these ducks and shot.
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Open AI chatbot prompt: "Rewrite Baby Got Back in the Style of the Canterbury Tales." Once upon a time in the land of Canterbury A lady fair with a behind so hearty Walked in the room with a waist so small And a round thing in front of us all ...
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Today at 12:05 @CONSEQUENCES_ws
Ben London@BenjoLondon22 Sep 2022
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Fri, 9/23 @ 12:05 PDT: @AlexanderBuchh3 will present our work on a new estimator for offline evaluation of ranking policies. amazon.science/publications/…

Off-policy evaluation for learning-to-rank via interpolating the item-position model and the...

A critical need for industrial recommender systems is the ability to evaluate recommendation policies offline, before deploying them to production. Unfortunately, widely used off-policy evaluation...

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Presenting 2 papers on new work at CONSEQUENCES+REVEAL Workshop @ RecSys ‘22 sites.google.com/view/conseq… Details 👇

CONSEQUENCES+REVEAL 2022

The CONSEQUENCES+REVEAL Workshop is now a merged event instead of independent workshops. Organisers are working together to implement a new 2-day workshop format, where the programme will be grouped...

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Fri, 9/23 @ 12:05 PDT: @AlexanderBuchh3 will present our work on a new estimator for offline evaluation of ranking policies. amazon.science/publications/…

Off-policy evaluation for learning-to-rank via interpolating the item-position model and the...

A critical need for industrial recommender systems is the ability to evaluate recommendation policies offline, before deploying them to production. Unfortunately, widely used off-policy evaluation...

amazon.science
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Collaboration with Giuseppe Benedetto & Thorsten Joachim, who might not be on Twitter
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Ran my first half marathon today, the Orca Half. First race since high school. Finishing time: 1:42:49
Me holding a race medal in front of the Seattle skyline

ALT Me holding a race medal in front of the Seattle skyline

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Is AC’ing for #ICLR harder/easier than the other big ML conf’s (ICML/NeurIPS)? Debating whether to accept an invite; no firsthand experience with this conf. Anyone who does, what’s your take?
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Gotta hand it to @FedEx. Lost my car key on a beach in OR. Had a spare sent from Seattle yesterday at 4pm and received it at beach house today at 11:30am. Saved my butt. Logistics are pretty impressive when they work.
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#NeurIPS2022 preliminary reviews are out, so you know what that means: time to start planning your resubmission to another conference! 🙃
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I would like to share with you the actual narrative of an actual published paper :-\ - LGBT people have privacy concerns so they might be reluctant to participate in research - So we built a machine learning classifier to identify them on Twitter so they can be researched anyway
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One Canadian killed by gun violence is one too many. That’s why we’ve banned 1,500 types of military-style assault firearms. And that’s why, today, we’ve introduced legislation to further strengthen gun control in Canada. Thread ⤵️
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BAN ALL SEMIAUTOMATIC WEAPONS ALL OF THEM Yes, including handguns WTF is wrong with this country?
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Just thinking about all the thousands of miserable bastards out there who, like me, are trying to cram 12 pages into 9 right now.
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