NYC Machine Learning meetup

From the NYC Machine Learning talk I had last week: Haven't looked at it yet except briefly. Unfortunately the quality isn't the best.

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Momentum and mean reversion might just be volatility bias

The Economist just published an article called The best, the worst and the ugly.

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Calculating cosine similarities using dimensionality reduction

This was posted on the Twitter Engineering blog a few days ago: Dimension Independent Similarity Computation (DISCO) I just glanced at the paper, and there's some cool stuff going on from a theoretical perspective.

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Tumblr's awesome project names

Not sure how I managed to miss this, but I'm watching this Tumblr presentation and they talk about their projects named after Arrested Development topics: Gob, Parmesan, Buster, Jetpants, Oscar, George and Motherboy. Still, the best software project name is probably still Apple's BHA.

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A neat little trick with time decay

Something that pops up pretty frequently is to implement time decay, especially where you have recursive chains of jobs.

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Luigi: complex pipelines of tasks in Python

I'm shamelessly promoting my first major open source project.

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Create SQL Insert Statements from a Spreadsheet

In this article, I will show you how to create SQL insert statements from a spreadsheet

From: Dan Vega

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