Startup options v. cash
I often talk to startups that claim that their compensation package has a higher expected value than the equivalent package at a place like Facebook, Google,...
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Why Momentum Really Works
We often think of optimization with momentum as a ball rolling down a hill. This isn’t wrong, but there is much more to the story.
Read moreResearch Debt
Science is a human activity. When we fail to distill and explain research, we accumulate a kind of debt…
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Read moreHow web bloat impacts users with slow connections
A couple years ago, I took a road trip from Wisconsin to Washington and mostly stayed in rural hotels on the way. I expected the internet...
Read moreExperiments in Handwriting with a Neural Network
Several interactive visualizations of a generative model of handwriting. Some are fun, some are serious.
Read moreHN: the good parts
HN comments are terrible. On any topic I’m informed about, the vast majority of comments are pretty clearly wrong. Most of the time, there are zero...
Read moreDeconvolution and Checkerboard Artifacts
When we look very closely at images generated by neural networks, we often see a strange checkerboard pattern of artifacts.
Read moreProgramming book recommendations and anti-recommendations
There are a lot of “12 CS books every programmer must read” lists floating around out there. That’s nonsense. The field is too broad for almost...
Read moreHow to Use t-SNE Effectively
Although extremely useful for visualizing high-dimensional data, t-SNE plots can sometimes be mysterious or misleading.
Read moreHiring and the market for lemons
Joel Spolsky has a classic blog post on “Finding Great Developers” where he popularized the meme that great developers are impossible to find, a corollary of...
Read moreI could do that in a weekend!
I can’t think of a single large software company that doesn’t regularly draw internet comments of the form “What do all the employees do? I could...
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