Dan Rice on How the Experts May Not Always Be Right: A Story About the...
Machine learning can be a check on conventional thinking, if we let it. On the new analytics Linkedin group started by Vincent Granville, Dan Rice wrote a personal account of his frustrations with the...
View ArticleSequential Learning Book
Things have been quiet around here since the winter because I have been focusing my modest writing and research skills on a new book for O’Reilly. We signed the contract a few days ago, so now I get to...
View ArticleHashing Language
How do you build a language model with a million dimensions? The so-called “hashing trick” is a programming technique frequently used in statistical natural language processing for dimensionality...
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New Sentiment Dataset
The good folks in Stanford’s Natural Language Processing Group have built a powerful new dataset for a paper being presented at the EMNLP conference in Seattle next month. The underlying foundation of...
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Happy Birthday, Hipsteraunt
Last month was the two year anniversary of the website Hipsteraunt, which I built with my friend Lance Arthur. He did the design, I did the random menu generation. It is a quirky bit of AI and NLP...
View ArticleNotes on The Man Who Solved The Market (Jim Simons)
Like seemingly everyone who works on the buy side, I have been reading the Zuckerman book about Jim Simons of Renaissance. The book spends a lot of time with the big personalities who have worked at...
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