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A collection of recent articles from blogs that I follow.
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Optimal Feature Discovery: Better, Leaner Machine Learning Models Through Information Theory
Introduction Suppose you own a production ML model that already works reasonably well. You know that adding relevant and diverse sources of signal to your model is a sure way to boost performance, but finding new features that actually improve … The post Optimal Feature Discovery: Better,...
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High-Tier Content in the SoundCloud API
You can now retrieve metadata for our full SoundCloud catalog through our API by providing the new filter in your request. Until recently…
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Video: How to Dockerize a Python App with FastAPI
Join host Peter McKee and Python wizard Michael Kennedy for a warts-and-all demo of how to Dockerize a Python app using FastAPI, a popular Python framework. Kennedy is a developer and entrepreneur, and the founder and host of two successful Python podcasts — Talk Python To Me and Python Bytes....
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Help us make government more sustainable
We’re currently working to add a new point on sustainability to the Technology Code of Practice. We’re adopting a user-led and iterative approach to policy to ensure the new point is as useful and effective as possible.
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Can You Systematically Solve A Friday Crossword?
Welcome to The Riddler. Every week, I offer up problems related to the things we hold dear around here: math, logic and probability. Two puzzles are presented each week: the Riddler Express for those of you who want something bite-size and the Riddler Classic for those of you in the slow-puzzle...
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Automating Merchant Live Monitoring with Real-Time Analytics: Charon
At Uber, live monitoring and automation of Ops is critical to preserve marketplace health, maintain reliability, and gain efficiency in markets. By the virtue of the word “live”, this monitoring needs to show what is happening now, with prompt access … The post Automating Merchant Live...
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It seems like a simple enough concept: You take data from how your users interact with your product, and you use it to make business and…
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Freight Pricing with a Controlled Markov Decision Process
Intro Uber Freight was launched in 2017 to revolutionize the business of matching shippers and carriers in the huge and inefficient freight trucking industry (around $800B annual spend in the US). We believe, and have demonstrated, that a technology-first freight … The post Freight Pricing...
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We were promised Strong AI, but instead we got metadata analysis
How simple structured data trumps clever machine learning
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Complex systems are difficult to reason about at scale; we often can’t accurately extrapolate system behavior and performance, so we need to derive that data empirically. We use load testing to do just that: find the limits of our systems and weed out bugs at a large scale in a controlled...
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Can You Cut The Perfect Pancake?
Welcome to The Riddler. Every week, I offer up problems related to the things we hold dear around here: math, logic and probability. Two puzzles are presented each week: the Riddler Express for those of you who want something bite-size and the Riddler Classic for those of you in the slow-puzzle...
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Podcast: Role of product teams in greening delivery
To celebrate Earth Day 2021, we spoke to people working in different digital roles in government about how product teams can contribute to greening delivery.
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How many artists overshadow their band after going solo?
What the data say about Beyoncé, Nick Lachey, and others.