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Archived version of a blogpost about an agent hacking a gym website to book a pilates class

And Nominative Determinism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism

The Tudor government maintained a communication network that criss-crossed the globe. This visualisation brings together 123,850 letters connecting 20,424 people from the United Kingdom’s State Papers archive, dating from the accession of Henry VIII to the death of Elizabeth I (1509-1603). On this page we can see all people who sent or received letters from two or more people, arranged chronologically left-to-right.

Caspian | Data Scientist | Competitive Salary | Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Caspian specialise in the automated investigation of high volume, complex risk alerts for financial services firms. We use a combination of machine learning models, statistical insights and whatever else we can find to help solve a range of interesting and challenging problems. In the last month we successfully launched our pilot product in a top 5 global bank, so if you're into putting machine learning into production, come and talk to us!

Things we're into:

- Python (but we have a few R fans too!)

- Bayesian modelling

- Using tensorflow probability

- NLP (text classification, I.E. etc.)

- Dealing with the mess of real life data

To apply please email recruitment[at]caspian.co.uk including a copy of your C.V.

For any questions or just a chat, drop me a line at thomas.merritt[hyphen]smith[at]caspian.co.uk

Caspian Technology | Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK | Data Scientist | Full-time | ONSITE | https://www.caspian.co.uk/ Caspian Technology Solutions work with global banks to automate the complex human tasks of risk investigation and decision making in Financial Crime and Compliance, in areas such as Anti-Money Laundering, Sales Quality, Customer Due Diligence and Wealth Management, through machine learning solutions that can automatically read, analyse and make judgements as well as the very best human experts.

We are growing fast and looking for data scientists seeking to help us build cutting edge data science solutions to AML challenges.

Our offer: - Close knit, friendly team working in a dynamic, challenging environment - Using a variety of cutting-edge technologies - Opportunities for research into novel techniques - Competitive salary, 35 hour week, 25 days holiday (plus public holidays)

Your skills: Natural Language Processing Experience with standard machine learning techniques Hadoop/Spark Python

Interested? Send your CV and a cover letter to abi.giles-haigh [at] caspianlearning.co.uk Feel free to fire any questions over by email too.

Caspian Technology | Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK | Data Scientist | Full-time | ONSITE | https://www.caspian.co.uk/

Caspian Technology Solutions work with global banks to automate the complex human tasks of risk investigation and decision making in Financial Crime and Compliance, in areas such as Anti-Money Laundering, Sales Quality, Customer Due Diligence and Wealth Management, through machine learning solutions that can automatically read, analyse and make judgements as well as the very best human experts.

We are growing fast and looking for data scientists seeking to help us build cutting edge data science solutions to AML challenges.

Our offer:

- Close knit, friendly team working in a dynamic, challenging environment

- Using a variety of cutting-edge technologies

- Opportunities for research into novel techniques

- Competitive salary, 35 hour week, 25 days holiday (plus public holidays)

Your skills:

Natural Language Processing

Experience with standard machine learning techniques

Hadoop/Spark

Python

Interested? Send your CV and a cover letter to Abi.Giles-Haigh [at] caspian.co.uk Feel free to fire any questions over by email too.

Thoughts on this: http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2016/05/10/speech_impro...