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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 8

Domino Data Lab

They sold off most of the company later, retaining some of its IP, and are known to have kept copies of internal documents. We find ways to improve machine learning so that it requires orders of magnitude more data, e.g., deep learning with neural networks. In short, the virtuous cycle is growing. It’s a mess.

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Data Science at The New York Times

Domino Data Lab

Because I’m an academic I like to look at the original founding documents. Here is an ancient document about data science, specifically a piece by Jeff Hammerbacher. The other ancient and canonical document for trying to explain to people above me what we do in the data science group is this one. Good, okay.