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Data Scientist

Brazil
Joined August 2009
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We understand the world through stories; the ones we tell ourselves, and the ones we tell each other. The field of AI is attracting intense interest not so much because of its potential as a technology, but because it happens to be entangled in powerful stories - stories about us
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"In this post I’ll explain what the maximum likelihood method for parameter estimation is and go through a simple example to demonstrate the method" ✒️ @Jonny_CBB buff.ly/2E9kBKR
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Weekend Reading by our collaborator @marculera amazon.com/Machine-Learning-…
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Learn how to deploy a Scala application to write data in Kinesis Firehose on #ECS - Part 1: amzn.to/1QuvQ30
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New blog post, with a vow to write more in 2016 than in 2015: scala-lang.org/blog/2016/01/…
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Bank of America is trying to load up on patents for the technology behind bitcoin qz.com/578974 via @qz
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This Leonardo da Vinci letter is his LinkedIn profile -- and it reminds me of DARPA proposals in academia: lettersofnote.com/2012/03/sk…
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"This was a couple of software engineers who put this in for whatever reason," - nbcnews.com/business/autos/v…
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if you want something done, give it to a busy person
This is a great idea by an ex-colleague of mine if you want to discover Paris: Walk My Steps bit.ly/1WK6AXL
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Replace a semicolon (;) with a greek question mark (;) in someone's JavaScript and then just sit back and watch.
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An event I was photographing at last weekend. Flores by Chantal Flores Design Ltd fb.me/48e2eyvPb
gr8 opportunityfor exceptional junior web dev to join team talented #scala engineers siliconbeachaustralia.org/jo… #startupaus #jobs #SpreadTheWord
IMO if you have spent more than 10,000 hours mastering ABAP and you haven't picked up skills in other languages, you haven't mastered ABAP
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RT @gavinmontague: That's quite a dick move by Groupon. I can't imagine their engineering team are happy either. gnome.org/groupon/