Where am I?
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 ...
Recent Posts
What’s the relationship between machine learning and data mining?
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 ...
10 More lessons learned from building real-life Machine Learning systems — Part II
In my previous post, I introduced the ten new lessons and described the first five. Let’s directly dive into the final 5.
10 More lessons learned from building real-life Machine Learning systems — Part I
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: My Year in Running
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...
Ten Lessons Learned from Building (real-life impactful) Machine Learning Systems
(This is a blogpost version of a talk I gave at MLConf SF 11/14/2014. See below for original video and slides)
Introduction to Recommender Systems: A 4-hour lecture
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...
Blog posts and Summer gigs
I have recently heard complaints that this blog is rather quiet lately. I agree. I have definitely been focused on publishing through other sources and have found little time to write interesting t...
Recommendations as Personalized Learning to Rank
As I have explained in other publications such as the Netflix Techblog, ranking is a very important part of a Recommender System. Although the Netflix Prize focused on rating prediction, ranking is...
Tools for Data Processing @ Webscale
A couple of days ago, I attended the Analytics @Webscale workshop at Facebook. I found this workshop to be very interesting from a technical perspective. This conference was mostly organized by Fac...