One, Three, Zero

Jan 24

Re-live the eighties.

Jan 23

Quote of the day

Crowdsourcing is like MapReduce: Split, parallel process, aggregate. Mechanical Turk does the Map. Need better Reduce and a Pig-like language on top.

Panagiotis Ipeirotis via Twitter.

Dec 2

“In this study we introduce a new indicator for private consumption based on search query time series provided by Google Trends. The indicator is based on factors extracted from consumption-related search categories of the Google Trends application Insights for Search. The forecasting performance of the new indicator is assessed relative to the two most common survey-based indicators - the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index and the Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index. The results show that in almost all conducted in-sample and out-of-sample forecasting experiments the Google indicator outperforms the survey-based indicators. This suggests that incorporating information from Google Trends may off er signifi cant benefi ts to forecasters of private consumption.” Forecasting Private Consumption: Survey-based Indicators vs. Google Trends

Nov 10

TEDxSV 2009

I’ll be at the TED event at Stanford on Dec 12, 2009.

You should too!

Oct 28

Just Dance - Gary Go feat. Mr. Dialysis (Lady Gaga Cover) (via denversc17)

A totally awesome find via Andrew Polins.

Oct 14

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livejamie:

Tom Hodge - Aerodynamic

Who knew Daft Punk could sound like this?

Last one for the evening.

UPDATE: To appreciate the arrangement, you should probably check out the original version of this song if you’re not familiar with Daft Punk.

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ylizabeth:

kids in technicolour - coldplay vs. mgmt. vs. daft punk (knights remix)

Another pretty awesome mashup.

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copycats:

Night Beatle by Go Home Productions
Nightvisions by Daft Punk + When I’m Sixty-Four by The Beatles
(via ilictronix)

Pretty awesome combination.

Elements of Statistical Learning (New Edition) now online for free

Holy crap. This is awesome. Profs Hastie, Friedman and Tibshirani have put the new (2009) version of their definitive text, Elements of Statistical Learning, online for free. At 700+ pages (and a lot of megabytes), its still far easier to use the paper copy. Hopefully something will appear in Google Books soon.

Oct 12

Given that a professor in my department has just won the Nobel Prize in Economics — now seems like a good time to mention: I’ve left full-time employment at Google to start a PhD at Berkeley.