You have probably heard a lot about Deep Learning and how it is taking over the world in general, and the area of Machine Learning in particular. But, does that mean that Deep Learning will be the ...
Ad blockers might be good for the individual consumers that are using it, short term. However, longer term, if successful, ad blockers will shape the Internet in a way that will end up hurting cons...
This is a great question. As a TLDR; the way to deal with strong differences between engineers is not necessarily to build consensus but to have a clear owner in charge of making the final decision.
There have recently been some articles (e.g. This list of influencers) that have pointed to this blog and lamented that I don’t update it regularly anymore. It is true. I now realize I should have ...
This is not an easy question because there is no common agreement on what “Data Mining” means. But, I am going to say that I disagree with the answer from Wikipedia that Yuvraj Singla points to. I ...
In my previous post, I introduced the ten new lessons and described the first five. Let’s directly dive into the final 5.
Over a year ago, following an original presentation at MLConf, I wrote a blog post entitled “10 Lessons Learned from building ML systems”. At that point, I was leading the Algorithms Engineering te...
2015 has been a great year for me in many ways, but running has been particularly good. This year I ran 2000 miles (3200 km), compared to the 1850 last year. This is even more remarkable if I think...
(This is a blogpost version of a talk I gave at MLConf SF 11/14/2014. See below for original video and slides)
A couple of weeks ago, I gave a 4 hour lecture on Recommender Systems at the 2014 Machine Learning Summer School at CMU. The school was organized by Alex Smola and Zico Kolter and, judging by the a...
