Will Benton

@willb

Former computer scientist, husband, dad, confessional Lutheran; spare-time activities include rotating cogs, capturing light, and synthesizing sound.

Madison, WI
chapeau.freevariable.com
Joined August 2007
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  1. Oct 14

    This is an excellent demonstration of the strengths and weaknesses of t-SNE:

    2 retweets 14 likes
  2. Oct 14

    Online median calculation using priority queues: O(log n) per sample, n=analysed set size.

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  3. Oct 11

    At this point, I’m wondering if any community has managed to evade this fellow’s aggressive public abuses of taste and decorum.

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  4. Oct 7

    An aging lout, short on funds and friends, boasts of failed attempts to seduce married women. I love _Falstaff_ but hate this election.

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  5. Oct 4

    TIL flight attendants now explicitly call out Samsung Galaxy Notes 7 as devices that must be turned off and stowed and may not be charged. 🔥

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  6. Oct 3

    Wanna keep your team in the flow? Use this handy diagram by . cc: Snazzy!

    4 retweets 7 likes
  7. Sep 27

    “You are not the expert who knows what users want and need; you are an…” — 

    “…You are not the expert who knows what users want and need; you are an expert at identifying what users want and need…” from “Applied Design Thinking: Take Two” by Edenspiekermann.
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  8. Sep 29

    It was a fun surprise to hear my bike data analytics work mentioned on ’s podcast! For more info, visit

    1 retweet 7 likes
  9. Sep 27

    An endemic confusion of computing: knowing how to make containers for things vs. knowing how to make interesting things to contain.

    1 retweet 3 likes
  10. Sep 25

    Shot and chaser.

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  11. Sep 14

    Why, it’s almost as if there were a substantial guaranteed market for this product each year.

    Cost of Graphing Calculator vs Cost of Basically All Other Consumer Electronics
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  12. Sep 8

    New blog post! How we settled on implementing the immutable server pattern on AWS

    12 retweets 23 likes
  13. Aug 26

    (Consider how keeps pages in a distinguished branch and wikis in a cloneable repository.)

  14. Aug 26

    It would be great if kept issue and PR data in a distinguished branch or sidecar repository so you could clone or update it too.

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  15. Aug 24 New Jersey, USA

    Rubies are red, Some threads are green, But only Java has AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean

    813 retweets 966 likes
  16. Aug 17

    Distributed-vector representations are the apogee of logical positivism: they create a space where any counterfactual is sensible.

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  17. Aug 3

    My post on using Minimum Description Length to identify a good number of clusters:

    11 retweets 25 likes
  18. Jul 21

    I can't get over how enraging the average rush hour commute is.

    1 retweet 4 likes
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  20. Jul 16

    _Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg_: an unfettered startup disrupts an overregulated industry but ultimately embraces rent-seeking.

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