, , and I spent the last couple years running one of the dominant MEV bots on . We learned a bunch of lessons about graph algorithms, networking, the EVM, and more that I share in my blog post below.
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I just graduated with my master's in Computer Science from and wrote up some of my thoughts below. I wholeheartedly enjoyed the program and would be happy to chat with anyone interested.
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Very cool to see my team's work on automatic speech recognition help lift Threads to the top of the App Store ranking and make social videos more accessible for all. twitter.com/CaseyNewton/st
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Super proud to see the governor of my home state, , use my team's product, automatic captions, to make his COVID updates accessible to all Coloradans. The stream is live at facebook.com/jaredpolis/vid if you want to watch and let me know how we're doing.
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I'd always wondered why Bayesian methods weren't applied to more domains. The answer came to me after building a Bayesian Fama-French model for forecasting asset prices. In this case, Bayesian == frequentist with a 1,000x increase in computational cost!
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I spent some time studying how classical machine learning algorithms perform on a simple acoustic modeling task for automatic speech recognition.
TL;DR: not well. We have come a long way since the 2010's!
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Super cool to see my team's work on automatic captioning highlighted in the announcement that they just hit 3M paid users! Money shot comes in the sixth second of the video.
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We just announced 11 new tools to bring the power of #community to work at #FlowByWorkplace. Get the full scoop now: bit.ly/3200fQr
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Congratulations to Haoyu Niu and his iBMW team for taking first place in Food Systems category (and Grand Prize Pitch Day Finalist) of the ! They built an autonomous robot to ecologically eliminate Navel Orangeworm from CA orchards. bigideascontest.org/2019/05/02/201
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I spent the last year tinkering with arbitrage strategies on the nascent crypto exchanges. While I didn't become rich, I did learn a ton about writing fast computer programs, the dynamics of real-world financial markets, and deploying reliable systems.
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.’s post, The Unreasonable Effectiveness of RNNs, is what first got me excited about ML. Today, I discovered his muse, The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences, which is having the same effect on my interest in math. maths.ed.ac.uk/~v1ranick/pape
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I was leafing through the simple sabotage manual, written to inspire saboteurs before D-Day, and couldn't help but notice how many of the behaviors recommended to interfere with organizations are actually standard procedures in many companies today. cia.gov/news-informati
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Last year, reached out to ask me to contribute to a feature on travel. They unfortunately never published my essay, but I like it well enough, so I wanted to share.
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I spent the last few months tinkering with static site generators only to learn that is still pretty damn good. If you're thinking about this, save yourself some time and read my blog instead of learning how to set up SSL certs on localhost.
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Interested in getting a PhD in statistics (or hell any subject. With an opportunity like this you may as well change your major)? Fire on over to to work with the best of the best @karalimck on solving all kinds of high-impact climate problems. t.co/CUsqoFCtFi
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"Crossword puzzles can be a gateway drug to computational physics." --. My favorite of many fun quotes in a recent fantastic interview on .
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I’m having a blast spending more time with ’s family, despite >1k miles between us, thanks to my team’s new product, @PortalFacebook. Hard to explain why this little tabletop box makes calling so fun, but it is definitely bringing us closer together. #portal #feelthere
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Never have I seen a cooler application for AI. Kevin Knight, Chief Scientist at , wowed the crowd at the NLP summit with his work on decrypting an ancient cyphers. This stuff is straight out of the Da Vinci Code.
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San Francisco’s sad but true reality as reported by the . How can this be happening just blocks away from some of the wealthiest zip codes on the planet?
California is a great state, but it is puzzling that I can’t process a simple address change online in the heart of SV. Between and me, we’ve probably lost a week of work over this insanity. , how about fixing this on your way out? nyti.ms/2MXYkZ6
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We’ve come a long way since my first AVC when spinning blades of quadcopter death were raining from the sky and robocars needed orbital assistance to help them around the simplest track.
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A weekend of @DIYRbocars in Boulder. Wish I could be there myself this year. twitter.com/sparkfun/statu…
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My colleagues at AI Research have developed a totally unsupervised approach for machine translation. This is equivalent of Champollion conjuring up his own Rosetta Stone while deciphering the secret code of hieroglyphics.
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The most epic piece of direct mail I have ever received arrived today. Maybe I should dust off that ol' Part 107 and collect my fortune.
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We are all familiar with style transfer from one domain to another (photo —> Van Gough), but Hung-Yi Lee’s latest work on Cycle GANs let’s us move in both directions. My mind was blown when I saw his code generating photos from Van Gough paintings!
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Fun feature request for the OCR team: hieroglyphics to English. What a fun way to partner with museums and get the pubic interested in Egyptology.
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.@FarmDrones acquires , bringing industry-leading aerial data acquisition and processing to growers in 50+ countries across the globe!
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. AI Research just open sourced this neat tool to extract 3D human poses from 2D photos and video. I can't wait to use DensePose to level up my tennis game! research.fb.com/facebook-open-
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Proud to support tech entrepreneur and education crusader in the Colorado governor’s race. See this piece for a great summary on what he will bring to Colorado. In the Race for Governor, How Far Left Is Colorado Willing to Go?
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After a fantastic year at , it's on to the next. I couldn't be more excited to join the Applied Machine Learning team at .
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. and I just rode a spectacular 1,500-mile offroad lap around the Grand Canyon through some of the most beautiful places in the country. Check out my notes on the trip below.
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Great article featuring @karalimck explaining why needs to keep Landsat imagery free for all--$80M budget leads to $2B in economic impact.
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Guaranteed jobs seem to make way more sense than universal basic income. Humans have a will to work and I see a dozen potential projects on my way to work that could benefit from a few able bodies.
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Lawyers expect to pull $348M in fees out of the Toys R Us bankruptcy while workers losing their jobs are being denied severance and compensation for accrued vacation.
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. Duplex will fire up an ultra-realistic-sounding bot to dial up businesses on your behalf and take care of those annoying tasks that still require a phone call. Reserving a table has never been easier!
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So cool. The Pentagon's Rogue Squadron releases an open source -based Android app that allows you to fly drones.
Just to be clear, that's the *US Military* releasing an *open source* app to fly *Chinese* drones!
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Good quote on sales and commission: “Do your engineers like programming? Might they even do a little programming on the side sometimes for fun? Great. I guarantee your sales people never sell enterprise software for fun.”
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"It would be morally convenient if technology for war could be cleaved so cleanly from technology for everything else. But it can’t be." Very interesting op-ed by former director on Maven and Silicon Valley's relationship with the DoD. nytimes.com/2018/05/02/opi
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“Officials produce the numbers, and the numbers produce officials,” mentioned a Chinese governor after admitting that his province inflated GDP number for years. Learn how uses AI and remote sensing to increase transparency in the world.
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Totally flattered to get a birthday message from my Colorado congressman who I hope to follow into Colorado politics in 2-4 years.
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