Computational scientific discovery is at an interesting juncture. While we have... (more…)

Machine learning is often thought to be too complicated for everyday development tasks. We often associate it with things like big data, data mining, data science, and artificial intelligence. Sometimes it feels something like this: Machine Learni...

In the last 5-6 years, machine learning has gone from ‘crazy idea from the 1980s’ to ‘software’. That has come with several waves of deployment and several waves of company creation, as we work out what do do with it. It’s the new SQL. (more…)

This blog post summarizes the main points of Netflix's Engineering and Research Manager talk: Recommendations for Building Machine Learning Software. (more…)

Quora recently hosted a workshop on using machine learning to combat spam, harassment, and sock puppets in online communities. While human reporting and traditional moderation solutions play a key role in safeguarding shared spaces, ML needs to do the hea... (more…)