director at intersection of finance, software and data science. interests in machine learning, IoT, blockchain and quantitative finance. grace & kaya's dad
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Appears key driver of U.S. innovation (and success) is still a bit of a secret. xitter.cf/MaxCRoser/status/76085…
538 story on police shootings points to journalism's future. Comprehensive, data-centered and clear about limits. fivethirtyeight.com/features…
MIT blockchain series is well structured context for hand-wavy analyst predictions, but still light on key tradeoffs xitter.cf/FinMktg/status/7561039…
Given "Unsupervised Transcription of Piano Music" cs.berkeley.edu/~tberg/paper…, Carnegie Mellon smart to hire Taylor Berg people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~tb…
"Anthem and Aetna said they intend to fight". Given concentration ratios, fighting DOJ not a smart use of funds here xitter.cf/ggruber66/status/75616…
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Hmm... NFLX at -13% still trades at 265 PE (was 300). Given our usage patterns, there's still plenty of downside: google.com/finance?q=nflx&ei…
Planet Labs opens California satellite image time series for devs: planet.com/open-california/. Excellent source data for your geo conv nets.
Elegant. xitter.cf/fchollet/status/754887…
Deloitte's embrace of blockchain reminds me of CSC Index's bearhug of re-engineering following Hammer's 1993 book - finextra.com/pressarticle/65…
Sweet. @MSFTResearch open sourced Malmo. Can't wait to turn my q-learning drone pack loose in Minecraft's 3D world github.com/Microsoft/malmo.
Magic Leap q&a @ Fortune. Hand-wavie q's about future apps: 100%. Practical q's about effort to build content: 0% - youtu.be/opGcbPILoZw
Good survey of research on CNN for... NLP. RNNs-CNNs domains converge as supranets optimize subnets like other parms wildml.com/2015/11/understan…
Wapo parses violance stats. Starting to see return on police shootings database investment - washingtonpost.com/news/post….
This teatment of European alliances as metro map, including discriptions of each, has been helpful this summer - washingtonpost.com/graphics/…
Suspect TSLA's rationale for SCTY bid is a bit more sophisticated than initial analyst reaction suggests: wsj.com/articles/why-tesla-i…...
Nice post by @drob w/ key recommendation to grad students: "create public artifacts". Applies to all students. xitter.cf/gtnjuvin/status/745646…
One year as a Data Scientist by @drob at @StackOverflow #DataScience - varianceexplained.org/r/year…
Capable summary of the Ethereum Dao heist: marketwatch.com/story/digita…. While not ideal, likely ends demo'ing value of trackable cryptocurrency
Nice concise, accessible description of GPU vs. CPU. xitter.cf/jtoy/status/7434871581…
Machine-payable web is interesting esp micro-payable apis. Great if bitcoin accounts were pervasive and trxns speedy 21.co/mkt/
Searches for "bigot", "racist" and "misogynist" ramping. Seems 2008 and 2012 elections were 'the good old days': google.com/trends/explore#q=…