Software engineer @LanceDB. Previously: data science @StitchFix, HCI, and geotagged social media data. Still into bikes and coffee.
Pittsburgh, PA
Joined April 2009
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oh neat! this paper, more than any other, inspired my phd thesis. congrats Justin Raz Jason and Norman!
Congratulations also to our ICWSM 2022 Test of Time Award winners, @justin_cranshaw, @razsc, @jas0nh0ng, and @NormSadeh for their work, "The Livehoods Project: Utilizing Social Media to
Understand the Dynamics of a City" 🏆🏆
neural networks are terrible houses of cards, but until today I'd never just thrown twice as much data and training time at a model and actually had it significantly improve
yes this thread! I've gotten annoyed with "tech debt" over the years. feels like "national debt" - we all shrug, maybe it's not even bad. but connect "maintenance thing X" to "... and then the toilet will overflow at midnight and person Y will have to fix it."
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Very Serious Data Science
ALT slack message in which I ask "when you get 403 forbidden, does it just have that 403 forbidden text on a blank page, or do you see a cat in a toilet?"
The (deceptively difficult) question of "what color is this item?" Now with neat algorithmic details! @stitchfix_algo
multithreaded.stitchfix.com/…
hey, my @stitchfix_algo post!
one simple attribute for clothes is "what color is it?"
but different people care about color at different granularities. how did we solve this? multithreaded.stitchfix.com/…
plus sweet interactive explore graphics by @iPancreas
TIL parquet is not in fact pronounced "par-KET" but "PAR-kay." I definitely too-clevered myself out of this one for a while :P
get data, preprocess, train and test models, output metrics and confusion matrix: 4 hours
figure out how to tell matplotlib to make that confusion matrix a little bigger so I can read the labels on it: also 4 hours
if you run chaos monkey, but then you start depending on your jobs restarting every N hours... do you then need "order monkey" to sometimes make them run longer?
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this is a cool thing!
sometimes, in addition to metrics, you need to just look at the thing. (often, I'd say.)
The latest blog post from the Stitch Fix Algorithms team:
"A picture is worth 1,000 false-positive bug reports" by @iPancreas.
multithreaded.stitchfix.com/…
if I had a dollar for every time "statistically significant" just meant "we should care about it", then I'd have a statistically significant amount of money
one thing I learned from studying neighborhoods is, lol good luck posting a "correct" neighborhoods map: reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/co…