Detritus

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One of the things I have observed over the years is that a hard charging sales oriented founder/CEO can often hide the defects in a product. Because the founder is so capable of convincing the market to adopt/purchase the product, the company can get revenue traction with a product that is not really right. And that can hide all sorts of problems.

A VC: Revenue Traction Doesn’t Mean Product Market Fit

06/15/13

Event Stream Processing Using Clojure and Esper

05/30/13

Statistical Formulas For Programmers

05/24/13

Evaluating machine learning systems: Kaggle’s not enough

Its not just Kaggle. A lot of the so-called “data science as a service” companies I’m seeing now are doing a tremendous disservice to the market in making it appear as if this is a solved problem when it is most certainly not.

05/15/13

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We found that traditional models overestimated the power of influence by a factor of seven and that half of perceived influence was really just homophily and other confounds.

What Would Ashton Do—and Does It Matter? - Harvard Business Review

05/4/13

Graceful stopping in Go

05/1/13

Zipfian Academy: A Practical Intro to Data Science

04/13/13

Abusing hash kernels for wildly unprincipled machine learning

04/6/13

Security Engineering - A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems

Free complete copy of the second edition.

04/4/13

The Bitcoin Bubble and the Future of Currency

04/4/13