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Why Your Holiday Travel Is Awful
Re:Ask HN: What tasks do you automate?
on Sunday July 16, 2017 @05:16PM (#14784147)
How do you automate these?
Modeling Agents with Probabilistic Programs
Amazon's Bricks and Mortar
Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository [pdf] (2016)
Re:Kalman Filter via a Simple and Intuitive Derivation [pdf]
on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @11:17PM (#12649982)
My favorite explanation of Kalman filters is this tutorial in Python: https://github.com/rlabbe/Kalman-and-Bayesian-Filters-in-Pyt...
It's geared towards software engineers and doesn't assume much math background. Highly recommend.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)
on Monday October 03, 2016 @04:21PM (#12630989)
Uber - Trust & Safety | San Francisco | Full-time | ONSITE
Uber's Trust & Safety team is hiring backend, mobile, and full-stack engineers. We develop technology to help make millions of rides safer every day.
Our tech stack includes Go, Java, Kafka/Samza, Spark, Python, Node.js, Cassandra. We work on a bunch of interesting problems in signal processing, machine learning, and distributed systems.
Some recent launches:
http://www.recode.net/2016/6/29/12053194/uber-madd-driver-sa...
http://venturebeat.com/2016/09/23/uber-selfies-security-phot...
Please contact me at abeinstein AT uber DOT com if interested.
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Re:Linux Performance Observability Tools
on Thursday March 17, 2016 @12:28AM (#11302570)
Linux Performance Observability Tools
Loss aversion is not what we think it is
How to use interfaces in Go (2012)
Cubii: Under-Desk Elliptical Trainer
Re:Chrome Cube Lab
on Monday May 19, 2014 @12:02PM (#7768116)
The 'Get the Code' link is broken (https://chrome.com/cubelab#create). Does anyone have a link to the code?
Re:Health Insurance in 3 Minutes
on Saturday March 22, 2014 @07:41AM (#7448660)
This may be helpful for people like me who don't know anything about health insurance:
https://www.healthsherpa.com/learn/how-insurance-works
Re:Major Changes in SAT Announced by College Board
on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @03:13PM (#7349532)
Hm, it's very possible that SAT prep companies game the system by making their diagnostic tests quite difficult.
Re:Major Changes in SAT Announced by College Board
on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @03:09PM (#7349508)
Yeah I meant more than it is very easy to go from the 400-500's range to the 600-700's range with SAT prep. Especially on the writing section -- they only test on 20ish grammar rules, many of which are subtle and wouldn't necessarily be noticed without prep.
Re:Major Changes in SAT Announced by College Board
on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @02:44PM (#7349323)
As a former SAT prep teacher, I'm very excited to learn about Khan Academy's partnership with the College Board. Previously, success on the SAT seemed to depend solely on how much money was spent on SAT prep. Glad to hear that the College Board is interested in leveling the playing field.
Python Best Practice Patterns
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Test-Driven Web Development with Python
Show HN: I started a data science club at my school
Re:N.S.A. Foils Much Internet Encryption
on Thursday September 05, 2013 @03:23PM (#6336308)
So, NSA has solved P vs NP and they're just not telling us?
Re:Seriously: what's the "next big thing" in tech?
on Thursday April 04, 2013 @07:46PM (#5496023)
I have a hunch that it's going to be about getting useful and relevant information out of big data. Analyzing 'Big Data' using techniques from machine learning is getting a lot of hype, as it is starting to prove itself as a powerful predictive tool. Companies that will be big in the future will take advantage of these techniques to solve major problems in education, healthcare, robotics, etc.