• Scheduling Notebooks at Netflix
  At Netflix we’ve put substantial effort into adopting notebooks as an integrated development platform. The idea started as a discussion of what development and collaboration interfaces might look like in the future. It evolved into a strategic bet on notebooks, both as an interactive UI and as the unifying foundation of our workflow scheduler. We’ve made significant strides towards this over the past year, and we’re currently in the process of migrating all 10,000 of the scheduled jobs running on the Netflix Data Platform to use notebook-based execution...

• Beyond the pixel plane: sensing and learning in 3D
  Understanding the world around us requires sensing and learning in 3D. But extending the success of convolutional networks to three dimensions isn’t easy...

• Synesthesia: The Sound of Style
  Imagine a color-blind Stitch Fix Client. She opens a Fix full of colorful fabrics carefully selected by her personal stylist. How can we enrich her experience so it is not restricted to any perceived range of colors? Borrowing from the ‘eyeborg’ idea, can we present her with a personalized song along with her Fix, that will represent and enhance what her stylist chose just for her? We want to find ways for our Client to experience Synesthesia...

 
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• Data Science and Insurance (with JD Long)
  What are the biggest challenges in insurance and reinsurance that data science can impact?...

• Databook: Turning Big Data into Knowledge with Metadata at Uber
  Big data by itself, though, isn’t enough to leverage insights; to be used efficiently and effectively, data at Uber scale requires context to make business decisions and derive insights. To provide further insight, we built Databook, Uber’s in-house platform that surfaces and manages metadata about the internal locations and owners of certain datasets, allowing us to turn data into knowledge...

• Hybrid Optical-Electronic Convolutional Neural Networks
  Develops a hybrid optoelectronic CNN with an optical CONV1 layer that operates at zero power consumption...

• Scanning the Internet for ROS: A View of Security in Robotics Research
  Because robots can directly perceive and affect the physical world, security issues take on particular importance. In this paper, we describe the results of our work on scanning the entire IPv4 address space of the Internet for instances of the Robot Operating System (ROS), a widely used robotics platform for research. Our results identified that a number of hosts supporting ROS are exposed to the public Internet, thereby allowing anyone to access robotic sensors and actuators...

• Scaling Uber’s Customer Support Ticket Assistant (COTA) System with Deep Learning
  Earlier this year, we introduced Uber’s Customer Obsession Ticket Assistant (COTA) system, a tool that leverages machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) techniques to recommend support ticket responses (Contact Type and Reply) to customer support agents, with Contact Type being the issue category that the ticket is assigned to and Reply the template agents use to respond. After integrating it into our Customer Support Platform, COTA v1 reduced English-language ticket resolution times by over 10 percent while delivering service with similar or higher levels of customer satisfaction...

• Detecting Phishing With Computer Vision: Part 1, Blazar
  At Endgame, we’re constantly pushing boundaries and developing new tools and techniques to solve security problems. We have stayed on top of the range of new applications of computer vision, but saw that it was underused in the information security space. In this and a subsequent blog we will demonstrate how computer vision can be applied to the phishing challenge, including an introduction of the two approaches which we presented at BSidesLV: 1) Blazar: URL spoofing detection, and the focus of this first post...

• Reproducible Data Analysis in Jupyter
  In light of recent discussions, here's a series of videos I made a while ago that shows my approach to reproducible data analysis in the Jupyter notebook...

• A Pragmatic Approach To Structured Data Querying Via Natural Language Interface
  At FriendlyData we are building a natural language interface for database querying. Our product translates natural language questions into corresponding SQL queries making data accessible to everyone in a company...

• Convert List To PyTorch Tensor
  Learn how to use the PyTorch Tensor operation (torch.tensor) to convert a Python list object into a PyTorch Tensor, via a screencast video and full tutorial transcript...

• Schooling Flappy Bird: A Reinforcement Learning Tutorial
  In this reinforcement learning tutorial, I’ll show how we can use PyTorch to teach a reinforcement learning neural network how to play Flappy Bird. But first, we’ll need to cover a number of building blocks...

• Replication of Ape-X (Distributed Prioritized Experience Replay)
  I replicated Ape-X and finally got around to open sourcing it...

• Bayes Theorem: A Visual Introduction For Beginners
  "This book takes what can be a daunting and complex subject and breaks it down with a series of easy to follow examples which buildup to deliver a great overall explanation of how to use Bayes Theorem for basic analysis and even off-the-cuff critical thinking"...
  
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