Personal Infrastructure

An overview of my personal infrastructure and services I host.

Five Ruby Methods You Should Be Using

Here’s a look at some lesser-known Ruby methods that solve specific types of problems very well.

Explorer: In the California Desert: Vast Darkness, Vibrant Music, an Oasis

In Wonder Valley, the silence makes its own kind of noise. And Twentynine Palms makes its own kind of music.

How the Japanese Practice of “Forest Bathing”—Or Just Hanging Out in the Wo

When the U.S. media began reporting on the phenomenon of “forest bathing” as a therapy for mental and physical health, the online commentariat—as it will—mocked the concept relentlessly as yet another pretentious, bourgeois repackaging of something thoroughly mundane.

Friction – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

The Internet has removed friction: that means a whole new set of possibilities; it doesn’t mean they are all good.

A Gentle Introduction to Exploding Gradients in Neural Networks

Exploding gradients are a problem where large error gradients accumulate and result in very large updates to neural network model weights during training. This has the effect of your model being unstable and unable to learn from your training data. In this post, you will…

GAME THEORY FOR MANAGERS

This book, written in an interactive manner and easy-to-comprehend style, explicates the concepts of game theory. It enables the readers to think strategically in interactions that they may encounter as managers. The book innovatively cites real-world scenarios to highlight the…

From Product/Market Fit to Language/Market Fit: A New Brand Storytelling Fr

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Revealed: The Secrets Of One Of The World's Dirtiest Banks And Its Powerful

Blatant forgery. Snarling guard dogs. Shredded evidence. An incendiary cache of leaked documents reveals the farcical scramble inside one of the world’s dirtiest banks to conceal incriminating information from US government investigators – while some of the most prestigious…

Google revamps its SEO Starter Guide

This is the first update of the SEO starter guide in several years.

The Food Lab's 20 Most Influential Food Books

These books shaped us into the cooks we are today.

The minds of plants

From the memories of flowers to the sociability of trees, the cognitive capacities of our vegetal cousins are all around us

5 Tricks When A/B Testing Is Off The Table

Data Science, Machine Learning, AI & Analytics

Class Methods In Ruby: a Thorough Review & Why I Define Them Using class

Class methods are the source for continuous discussions and disagreements among my colleagues. While some consider them precise and…

Why Is the Live-Event Ticket Market So Screwed Up? - Freakonomics Freakonom

The often-overlooked random forest kernel · RMarcus

Ryan Marcus, assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Using machine learning to build the next generation of data systems.

Camp Callaway

The American Scholar: Tales of War and Redemption - Phil Klay

Even in the face of the ultimate human failing, we must be responsive to suffering and attuned to joy

A Lonely Death

In postwar Japan, a single-minded focus on rapid economic growth helped erode family ties. Now, a generation of elderly Japanese is dying alone.

Table-top generals | 1843

Board games are back, thanks to the lessons their designers have learned from computer games. Tim Cross rolls the dice

How many senses do humans have?

The obvious answer is five: vision, hearing, touch, smell, and taste. But the reality may not be so simple.

Parfit — quick and powerful hyper-parameter optimization with visualization

An introduction to parfit

FlipChip Package Overview

If you were uncertain about the term “FlipChip” this tutorial will help you better understand what FlipChip packaging technology is all about. FlipChip package technology has been around for 3-4 decades and started as a package solution for high pin count & high performance…

The Beginning of the End for Copper

The FCC voted last Thursday to relax the rules for retiring copper wiring. This change was specifically aimed at Verizon and AT&T and is going to make it a lot easier for them to tear down old …

Inside Flipkart’s monster-cruncher: how it gleans insights from a petabyte

Understanding the value of your customer: CLV 101

At some point, almost every company faces questions like How good are the customers that we acquire? How do they

KV-Direct: High-performance in-memory key-value store with programmable NIC

The art of flying (short version)

One of the most wondrous markers of the end of the day is a murmuration of starlings

Amazon’s systematic approach

Amazon turned an event into a blockbuster. Here’s a roadmap for retailers who want to replicate its success.

Baseball, BBQ, and Dead Ponies—A History of Fat Men’s Clubs in Texas

A peek inside the revelry and rivalry of Texas's fat men's clubs.

The Marfa Mystique

Outsiders remain fascinated with unraveling the secrets of this place. But locals can explain, one story at a time.

How to Decide With Speed and Conviction by @ttunguz

A startup’s competitive advantage is execution speed. That quickness stems from a CEO’s ability to decide and this ability separates the great from the good. According to a recently published Harvard Business Review article, one of the four key behaviors distinguishing…

How restaurant menus play tricks on you

Great thought and effort go into creating restaurant menus – and there are some very powerful psychological tricks employed to make you choose.

Forbidden Planet robot sets price record for auctioned film prop

“Robby the Robot”, the seven-foot tall creature featured in the 1956 science fiction film Forbidden Planet, sold at auction for US$5.375 million, a record for a film prop, a New York auction house said on Tuesday.

How an unpaid UK researcher saved the Japanese seaweed industry

After crops failed, botanist Kathleen Drew-Baker realized that nori wasn’t what it seemed.

The 10 Statistical Techniques Data Scientists Need to Master

The author presents 10 statistical techniques which a data scientist needs to master. Build up your toolbox of data science tools by having a look at this great overview post.

GitBook

GitBook is a knowledge management tool for engineering teams. It simplifies knowledge sharing, with docs-as-code support and AI-powered search & insights. Sign up for free!

Material with helium ‘veins’ paves way for fusion reactors

Helium may not seem harmful, but the gas, a byproduct of fusion, can destroy metal, making fusion power a distant dream. A new material could change that.

Rough, smooth or deep: why the sound of a voice is multisensory

Take the rough with the smooth: how the sound of a voice is multisensory, and creates interior meaning through metaphor

The Secret Chord That Makes Pop Music Sound Happy

The musical formula for good vibrations.

4 Marketing Lessons from Opening a Brick-and-mortar Store

Lessons learned from opening a brick-and-mortar retail store may apply to online merchants, providing insights about promoting products, driving sales,

OverAPI.com | Collecting all the cheat sheets

OverAPI.com is a site collecting all the cheatsheets,all!

Despite devastating injuries, struggling towns still see football as a way

How To Tell If Someone Is Truly Smart Or Just Average

Author’s Note: This article was written over 60 hours with love and care using the blockbuster mental model. If you like my writing style…

Awesome Ruby

A collection of awesome Ruby libraries, tools, frameworks and software. The essential Ruby to build modern Apps and Web Apps.

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How Adversarial Attacks Work

Emil Mikhailov is the founder of XIX.ai [http://XIX.ai] (YC W17). Roman Trusov is a researcher at XIX.ai. Recent studies by Google Brain have shown that any machine learning classifier can be tricked to give incorrect predictions, and with a little bit of skill, you can get them…

AngularJS Programming Cookbook

55K subscribers in the angularjs community. A community for the awesome MVC JS framework.

wiseodd/generative-models: Collection of generative models, e.g. GAN, VAE i

Collection of generative models, e.g. GAN, VAE in Pytorch and Tensorflow. - wiseodd/generative-models

Highly Technical Reference Page: The Incredible PyTorch

A blog about Compressive Sensing, Computational Imaging, Machine Learning. Using priors to avoid the curse of dimensionality arising in Big Data.