... in a piece I wrote about the Netflix Prize ten years ago, where I attempted to explain Singular Value Decomposition to NYT readers.
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Replying to @pomeranian99 @alexismadrigal
Here's my 10-year-old Netflix Prize piece where I try to explain singular value decomposition to Wired readershttps://www.wired.com/2008/02/mf-netflix/ …
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Replying to @JSEllenberg @nxthompson and
I've tried to explain SVD to people by asking: If you could only use two words to explain the world, what would they be? And two more? And…
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Replying to @tophtucker @nxthompson and
"OK, now what if you could choose a mixture consisting of very small proportions of each of a few hundred words...?"
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Replying to @JSEllenberg @nxthompson and
Hahahah right! “OK now you must speak entirely by reference to books, e.g.: ‘even mix of very-much-Knausgaard & slight-opposite-of-Kundera’”
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Replying to @tophtucker @JSEllenberg and
@michael_nielsen@zeynep I want to hold a one-day tech journalist conference where we hammer out prose for metaphorizing machine learning.1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes -
Replying to @pomeranian99 @JSEllenberg and
co-sign!! with gradations of how much jargon's allowed
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Replying to @tophtucker @pomeranian99 and
Like, talks with multiple 15 min breaks where jargon level goes up after each break?
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