While Model Trains

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Carefully handpicked.
Presented 3 at a time.

Minimizing the Negative Log-Likelihood, in English

Will Wolf

"Why are you calling it the negative log-likelihood?"

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Recommendations

Simon Hørup Eskildsen

Cool explanation of computational aspects of recommendations avoiding to "get lost in the weeds of linear algebra".

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Choose boring technology

Dan McKinley

On avoiding the excessive adoption of new technologies solely for the sake of it.

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