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 Wi...
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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 w...
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....
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 Smo...
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 ...
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 ...
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. Thi...
10 Little lessons for life that I learned from running
(Sorry for allowing myself to depart from the usual geeky computer science algorithmic talk in this blog. I owed it to myself and my biggest hobby to write a...