Sam Altman
The United Slate
I would like to find and support a slate of candidates for the 2018 California elections, and also...
12th Jul 2017
I would like to find and support a slate of candidates for the 2018 California elections, and also to find someone to run a ballot initiative focused on affordable housing in the state. A team of aligned people has a chance to make a real change.
I believe in creating prosperity...
Eugene Yan
How to get started in Data Science
Tools and skills to pick up, and how to practice them.
25th Jun 2017
Tools and skills to pick up, and how to practice them.
Stories by Andrej...
ICML accepted papers institution stats
24th May 2017
Sam Altman
Join the YC Software Team
If you want to get funded by YC as a founder in the future, but you don't have a startup that's...
19th May 2017
If you want to get funded by YC as a founder in the future, but you don't have a startup that's ready for that yet, joining the YC software team is a great hack to get there.
The YC software team is a small group of hackers in SF that write the software that makes all the parts...
Eugene Yan
OMSCS CS6476 (Computer Vision) Review and Tips
OMSCS CS6476 Computer Vision - Performing computer vision tasks with ONLY numpy.
15th May 2017
OMSCS CS6476 Computer Vision - Performing computer vision tasks with ONLY numpy.
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Learning Deep Learning with Keras
Don't be afraid of artificial neural networks - it is easy to start! An overview of deep learning...
30th Apr 2017
Don't be afraid of artificial neural networks - it is easy to start! An overview of deep learning with links to didactic materials.
Sam Altman
Quora
I'm a strong believer in the importance of the internet in helping people to share knowledge and...
21st Apr 2017
I'm a strong believer in the importance of the internet in helping people to share knowledge and learn from each other. So I’m delighted to share, on behalf of YC Continuity, that we’re investing alongside Collaborative Fund in Quora.
Quora is doing extremely well. They now...
Made by Ollin
Acapella Extraction with ConvNets
A working prototype
18th Apr 2017
Stories by Andrej...
A Peek at Trends in Machine Learning
7th Apr 2017
Made by Ollin
Singing Style Transfer
Initial Experiments
22nd Mar 2017
Stories by Andrej...
ICLR 2017 vs arxiv-sanity
14th Mar 2017
Sam Altman
Greg
A lot of people ask me what the ideal cofounder looks
like. I now have an answer: Greg...
7th Mar 2017
A lot of people ask me what the ideal cofounder looks
like. I now have an answer: Greg Brockman.
Every successful startup I know has at least one person who
provides the force of will to make the startup happen. I’d thought a lot
about this in the abstract while advising YC...
Sam Altman
2017 YC Annual Letter
Dear YC Community:
In response to a comment on Hacker News, I’m going to try writing an annual...
16th Feb 2017
Dear YC Community:
In response to a comment on Hacker News, I’m going to try writing an annual letter to the YC community with an update on our progress.
Our mission is to enable the most innovation of any company in the world in order to make the future great for everyone. We...
Eugene Yan
Product Categorization API Part 3: Creating an API
Or how to put machine learning models into production.
13th Feb 2017
Or how to put machine learning models into production.
Made by Ollin
HintBot
Hinting icons automatically with a neural network
6th Feb 2017
Hinting icons automatically with a neural network
Sam Altman
Time to Take a Stand
It is time for tech companies to start speaking up about
some of the actions taken by President...
28th Jan 2017
It is time for tech companies to start speaking up about
some of the actions taken by President Trump’s administration.
There are many actions from his first week that are
objectionable. In repeatedly
invoking unsubstantiated conspiracy theories (like the 3 million...
Stories by Andrej...
Virtual Reality: still not quite there, again.
17th Jan 2017
Made by Ollin
Emojin
An infinite kaomoji generator
14th Jan 2017
An infinite kaomoji generator
Eugene Yan
Image search is now live!
A web app to find similar products based on image.
14th Jan 2017
A web app to find similar products based on image.
Piotr Migdał's Blog
king - man + woman is queen; but why?
Words, vectors, analogies and conceptual metaphors - the linear space of word2vec and GloVe. Or: how...
6th Jan 2017
Words, vectors, analogies and conceptual metaphors - the linear space of word2vec and GloVe. Or: how to change gender with a vector.
Stories by Andrej...
Yes you should understand backprop
19th Dec 2016
Eugene Yan
Strata x Hadoop 2016 - How Lazada Ranks Products
How Lazada ranks products to improve customer experience and conversion at Strata 2016.
9th Dec 2016
How Lazada ranks products to improve customer experience and conversion at Strata 2016.
Eugene Yan
I'm going back to school
Got accepted into Georgia Tech's Computer Science Masters!
2nd Nov 2016
Got accepted into Georgia Tech's Computer Science Masters!
Eugene Yan
Product Classification API Part 1: Data Acquisition
Parsing json and formatting product titles and categories.
11th Oct 2016
Parsing json and formatting product titles and categories.
Andrej Karpathy blog
A Survival Guide to a PhD
This guide is patterned after my “Doing well in your courses”, a post I wrote a long time ago on...
7th Sep 2016
This guide is patterned after my “Doing well in your courses”, a post I wrote a long time ago on some of the tips/tricks I’ve developed during my undergrad. I’ve received nice comments about that guide, so in the same spirit, now that my PhD has come to an end I wanted to compile...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Helping exceptionally gifted children in Poland
Gifted children have special educational needs. The Polish Children's Fund addresses this by...
11th Aug 2016
Gifted children have special educational needs. The Polish Children's Fund addresses this by offering scholarships and scientific camps for talented pre-university students.
Eugene Yan
First post!
Time to start writing.
6th Jul 2016
Andrej Karpathy blog
Deep Reinforcement Learning: Pong from Pixels
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This is a long overdue blog post on Reinforcement Learning (RL). RL is hot! You may have...
31st May 2016
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This is a long overdue blog post on Reinforcement Learning (RL). RL is hot! You may have noticed that computers can now automatically learn to play ATARI games (from raw game pixels!), they are beating world champions at Go, simulated quadrupeds are learning to run and leap,...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
My impressions from PyData Berlin 2016
Was it worth it? (Yes.) Links to the best talks.
25th May 2016
Was it worth it? (Yes.) Links to the best talks.
matt.sh
Security Rules for Email
Security Rules for Email
Email Security Primer
What is email? Email is the equivalent of a postcard...
5th Apr 2016
Security Rules for Email
Email Security Primer
What is email? Email is the equivalent of a postcard in the mail.
Much like a postcard in the mail1, email is not guaranteed to be private or secure in any capacity.
email is not secure
You must assume:
Anybody can read anything you...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Data science intro for math/phys background
Academia to data science? Learn Python (or R), machine learning and other stuff.
15th Mar 2016
Academia to data science? Learn Python (or R), machine learning and other stuff.
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Autistic traits, science and the nerd stereotype
There is a stereotype of scientists and engineers being aloof and exhibiting autistic traits. Recent...
4th Feb 2016
There is a stereotype of scientists and engineers being aloof and exhibiting autistic traits. Recent research shows that STEM students are indeed more autistic than the general population.
Piotr Migdał's Blog
The first post: why Jekyll?
Why Jekyll (and not Wordpress)? Markdown, GitHub, simplicity, LaTeX.
2nd Dec 2015
Why Jekyll (and not Wordpress)? Markdown, GitHub, simplicity, LaTeX.
Andrej Karpathy blog
Short Story on AI: A Cognitive Discontinuity.
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The idea of writing a collection of short stories has been on my mind...
14th Nov 2015
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The idea of writing a collection of short stories has been on my mind for a while. This post is my first ever half-serious attempt at a story, and what better way to kick things off than with a story on AI and what that might look like if you...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Prawdopodobieństwo a informacja
1st Nov 2015
Andrej Karpathy blog
What a Deep Neural Network thinks about your #selfie
Convolutional Neural Networks are great: they recognize things, places and people in your personal...
25th Oct 2015
Convolutional Neural Networks are great: they recognize things, places and people in your personal photos, signs, people and lights in self-driving cars, crops, forests and traffic in aerial imagery, various anomalies in medical images and all kinds of other useful things. But...
Eugene Yan
DataKind Singapore’s Latest Project Accelerator
Guest post of how DataKind SG worked with NGOs to frame their problems and suggests solutions
17th Sep 2015
Guest post of how DataKind SG worked with NGOs to frame their problems and suggests solutions
Piotr Migdał's Blog
arXiv vs MathOverflow - popularity of disciplines
22nd Jul 2015
Eugene Yan
DataScience SG Meetup - How we got top 3% in Kaggle
Sharing about my first data science competition at DataScience SG.
20th Jun 2015
Sharing about my first data science competition at DataScience SG.
matt.sh
Redis Architecure Diagram (April 2015)
Redis Architecture Diagram
Ever wonder what Redis internals look like? They look something like the...
2nd Apr 2015
Redis Architecture Diagram
Ever wonder what Redis internals look like? They look something like the diagram(s) below.
The pictures on this page and all associated materials are released free to the public for inclusion in any other materials/presentations/teachings/learnings.
The...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
There are no projects like side projects
2nd Jan 2015
matt.sh
Redis Quicklist: Do you even list?
Quicklist Final
(Still have a short attention span? See graphs at the bottom.)
This describes the...
19th Dec 2014
Quicklist Final
(Still have a short attention span? See graphs at the bottom.)
This describes the third and final major improvement to Redis Quicklist.
Previously On
Recap
Before Quicklist, Redis Lists had two representations:
ziplist stored small lists in a solid block of...
matt.sh
Redis Quicklist - From a More Civilized Age
Adventures in Encodings
[Short attention span? Jump to graphs.]
Redis is a data structure...
18th Nov 2014
Adventures in Encodings
[Short attention span? Jump to graphs.]
Redis is a data structure server.
One of the data structures it servers is a doubly linked list.
The Redis lists have two representations: regular and and ziplist.
Regular linked lists are CS 101 lists with each node...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
How to improve myself as a lecturer?
26th Aug 2014
matt.sh
Programming Errors at Project Scale
Programming Errors at Project Scale
Errors in Multi-Person Projects
Errors in multi-person projects...
12th Aug 2014
Programming Errors at Project Scale
Errors in Multi-Person Projects
Errors in multi-person projects involve typical programming errors1 and, more annoyingly, interpersonal errors.
This article is a quick overview of both technical and interpersonal errors we encounter when trying...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Why are papers without code but with results accepted?
11th Jun 2014
Piotr Migdał's Blog
How to stop feeling guilty about the unfinished work?
10th Mar 2014
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Two heads are better than one. How about more?
30th Jan 2014
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Why use version control systems for writing a paper?
22nd Feb 2013
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Open Science and Science 2.0
11th Aug 2012
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Mafia, zdradziecka parzystość oraz pi
6th Jul 2010
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Zapaleńcy i wypaleńcy, czyli o utracie pasji w trakcie studiów
26th Feb 2010
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