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27. 9. 2024It's hard to write code for computers, but it's even harder to write code for humans – erikbern.com
7. 4. 2024Predicting solar eclipses with Python – erikbern.com
13. 12. 2023Simple sabotage for software – erikbern.com
7. 12. 2022What I have been working on: Modal – erikbern.com
19. 10. 2022We are still early with the cloud: why software development is overdue for a change – erikbern.com
5. 4. 2022σ-driven project management: when is the optimal time to give up? – erikbern.com
30. 11. 2021Storm in the stratosphere: how the cloud will be reshuffled – erikbern.com
23. 7. 2021What is the right level of specialization? For data teams and anyone else. – erikbern.com
7. 7. 2021The data team: a short story – erikbern.com
19. 4. 2021Software infrastructure 2.0: a wishlist – erikbern.com
1. 4. 2021What's Erik up to? – erikbern.com
16. 12. 2020Giving more tools to software engineers: the reorganization of the factory – erikbern.com
6. 10. 2020Developer experience as a competitive advantage – erikbern.com
23. 9. 2020Mortality statistics and Sweden's "dry tinder" effect – erikbern.com
8. 6. 2020How to set compensation using commonsense principles – erikbern.com
10. 3. 2020Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by opportunity cost – erikbern.com
13. 1. 2020How to hire smarter than the market: a toy model – erikbern.com
19. 12. 2019What can startups learn from Koch Industries? – erikbern.com
9. 12. 2019We're hiring at Better – erikbern.com
16. 10. 2019Buffet lines are terrible, but let's try to improve them using computer simulations – erikbern.com
26. 9. 2019Miscellaneous unsolicited (and possibly biased) career advice – erikbern.com
5. 8. 2019Modeling conversion rates using Weibull and gamma distributions – erikbern.com
5. 8. 2019Modeling conversion rates using Weibull and gamma distributions – erikbern.com
15. 4. 2019Why software projects take longer than you think – a statistical model – erikbern.com
15. 4. 2019Why software projects take longer than you think – a statistical model – erikbern.com
21. 2. 2019Headcount goals, feature factories, and when to hire those mythical 10x people – erikbern.com
21. 2. 2019Headcount goals, feature factories, and when to hire those mythical 10x people – erikbern.com
10. 1. 2019Data architecture vs backend architecture – erikbern.com
10. 1. 2019Data architecture vs backend architecture – erikbern.com
8. 10. 2018The hacker's guide to uncertainty estimates – erikbern.com
8. 10. 2018The hacker's guide to uncertainty estimates – erikbern.com
30. 8. 2018I don't want to learn your garbage query language – erikbern.com
30. 8. 2018I don't want to learn your garbage query language – erikbern.com
16. 8. 2018Business secrets from terrible people – erikbern.com
16. 8. 2018Business secrets from terrible people – erikbern.com
17. 6. 2018New approximate nearest neighbor benchmarks – erikbern.com
17. 6. 2018New approximate nearest neighbor benchmarks – erikbern.com
4. 6. 2018Missing the point about microservices – it's about testing and deploying independently – erikbern.com
4. 6. 2018Missing the point about microservices – it's about testing and deploying independently – erikbern.com
2. 5. 2018Interviewing is a noisy prediction problem – erikbern.com
2. 5. 2018Interviewing is a noisy prediction problem – erikbern.com
27. 3. 2018Waiting time, load factor, and queueing theory – why you need to cut your systems a bit of slack – erikbern.com
27. 3. 2018Waiting time, load factor, and queueing theory – why you need to cut your systems a bit of slack – erikbern.com
7. 3. 2018Lessons from content marketing myself (aka blogging) for five years – erikbern.com
7. 3. 2018Lessons from content marketing myself (aka blogging) for five years – erikbern.com
15. 2. 2018New benchmarks for approximate nearest neighbors – erikbern.com
15. 2. 2018New benchmarks for approximate nearest neighbors – erikbern.com
28. 1. 2018I'm looking for data engineers – erikbern.com
28. 1. 2018I'm looking for data engineers – erikbern.com
17. 1. 2018Books I consumed in 2017 – erikbern.com
17. 1. 2018Books I consumed in 2017 – erikbern.com
3. 1. 2018Plotting author statistics for Git repos using Git of Theseus – erikbern.com
3. 1. 2018Plotting author statistics for Git repos using Git of Theseus – erikbern.com
29. 12. 2017Toxic meeting culture – erikbern.com
29. 12. 2017Toxic meeting culture – erikbern.com
12. 12. 2017Learning from users faster using machine learning – erikbern.com
12. 12. 2017Learning from users faster using machine learning – erikbern.com
26. 11. 2017Annoy 1.10 released, with Hamming distance and Windows support – erikbern.com
26. 11. 2017Annoy 1.10 released, with Hamming distance and Windows support – erikbern.com
30. 10. 2017Why conversion matters – a toy model – erikbern.com
30. 10. 2017Why conversion matters – a toy model – erikbern.com
26. 9. 2017On the Equifax breach and how to really prevent identity theft – erikbern.com
26. 9. 2017On the Equifax breach and how to really prevent identity theft – erikbern.com
6. 9. 2017The number of letters in the word for each number – erikbern.com
6. 9. 2017The number of letters in the word for each number – erikbern.com
29. 8. 2017The software engineering rule of 3 – erikbern.com
29. 8. 2017The software engineering rule of 3 – erikbern.com
19. 8. 2017Machine, Platform, Crowd – erikbern.com
19. 8. 2017Machine, Platform, Crowd – erikbern.com
14. 8. 2017Google diversity memo, global warming, Pascal's wager, and other stuff – erikbern.com
14. 8. 2017Google diversity memo, global warming, Pascal's wager, and other stuff – erikbern.com
12. 7. 2017Fun with trigonometry – the world's most twisted coastline – erikbern.com
12. 7. 2017Fun with trigonometry – the world's most twisted coastline – erikbern.com
6. 7. 2017Optimizing for iteration speed – erikbern.com
6. 7. 2017Optimizing for iteration speed – erikbern.com
9. 6. 2017Blogroll – erikbern.com
9. 6. 2017Blogroll – erikbern.com
23. 5. 2017Conversion rates – you are (most likely) computing them wrong – erikbern.com
23. 5. 2017Conversion rates – you are (most likely) computing them wrong – erikbern.com
9. 4. 2017The mathematical principles of management – erikbern.com
9. 4. 2017The mathematical principles of management – erikbern.com
15. 3. 2017The eigenvector of "Why we moved from language X to language Y" – erikbern.com
15. 3. 2017The eigenvector of "Why we moved from language X to language Y" – erikbern.com
17. 2. 2017Why I went into the mortgage industry – erikbern.com
17. 2. 2017Why I went into the mortgage industry – erikbern.com
1. 2. 2017Language pitch – erikbern.com
1. 2. 2017Language pitch – erikbern.com
10. 1. 2017Functional programming is the libertarianism of software engineering – erikbern.com
10. 1. 2017Functional programming is the libertarianism of software engineering – erikbern.com
5. 12. 2016The half-life of code & the ship of Theseus – erikbern.com
5. 12. 2016The half-life of code & the ship of Theseus – erikbern.com
1. 11. 2016Are data sets the new server rooms? – erikbern.com
1. 11. 2016Are data sets the new server rooms? – erikbern.com
25. 10. 2016Pareto efficency – erikbern.com
25. 10. 2016Pareto efficency – erikbern.com
8. 9. 2016State drift – erikbern.com
8. 9. 2016State drift – erikbern.com
5. 8. 2016When machine learning matters – erikbern.com
5. 8. 2016When machine learning matters – erikbern.com
9. 7. 2016Subway waiting math – erikbern.com
9. 7. 2016Subway waiting math – erikbern.com
2. 6. 2016Approximate nearest news – erikbern.com
2. 6. 2016Approximate nearest news – erikbern.com
24. 5. 2016What is your motivation? – erikbern.com
24. 5. 2016What is your motivation? – erikbern.com
26. 4. 2016Dollar cost averaging – erikbern.com
26. 4. 2016Dollar cost averaging – erikbern.com
18. 4. 2016Why organizations fail – erikbern.com
18. 4. 2016Why organizations fail – erikbern.com
4. 4. 2016NYC subway math – erikbern.com
4. 4. 2016NYC subway math – erikbern.com
16. 3. 2016Exploding offers are bullshit – erikbern.com
16. 3. 2016Exploding offers are bullshit – erikbern.com
12. 3. 2016Meta-blogging – erikbern.com
12. 3. 2016Meta-blogging – erikbern.com
2. 3. 2016Iterate or die – erikbern.com
2. 3. 2016Iterate or die – erikbern.com
3. 2. 2016My issue with GPU-accelerated deep learning – erikbern.com
3. 2. 2016My issue with GPU-accelerated deep learning – erikbern.com
25. 1. 2016Some more font links – erikbern.com
25. 1. 2016Some more font links – erikbern.com
21. 1. 2016Analyzing 50k fonts using deep neural networks – erikbern.com
21. 1. 2016Analyzing 50k fonts using deep neural networks – erikbern.com
8. 1. 2016I believe in the 10x engineer, but… – erikbern.com
8. 1. 2016I believe in the 10x engineer, but… – erikbern.com
1. 1. 2016Books I read in 2015 – erikbern.com
1. 1. 2016Books I read in 2015 – erikbern.com
5. 12. 2015More MCMC – Analyzing a small dataset with 1-5 ratings – erikbern.com
5. 12. 2015More MCMC – Analyzing a small dataset with 1-5 ratings – erikbern.com
28. 11. 2015There is no magic trick – erikbern.com
28. 11. 2015There is no magic trick – erikbern.com
12. 11. 2015Installing TensorFlow on AWS – erikbern.com
12. 11. 2015Installing TensorFlow on AWS – erikbern.com
4. 11. 2015Looking for smart people – erikbern.com
4. 11. 2015Looking for smart people – erikbern.com
31. 10. 2015MCMC for marketing data – erikbern.com
31. 10. 2015MCMC for marketing data – erikbern.com
28. 10. 2015Interview with a Data Scientist: Erik Bernhardsson – erikbern.com
28. 10. 2015Interview with a Data Scientist: Erik Bernhardsson – erikbern.com
20. 10. 2015Nearest neighbors and vector models – epilogue – curse of dimensionality – erikbern.com
20. 10. 2015Nearest neighbors and vector models – epilogue – curse of dimensionality – erikbern.com
1. 10. 2015Nearest neighbors and vector models – part 2 – algorithms and data structures – erikbern.com
1. 10. 2015Nearest neighbors and vector models – part 2 – algorithms and data structures – erikbern.com
24. 9. 2015Nearest neighbor methods and vector models – part 1 – erikbern.com
24. 9. 2015Nearest neighbor methods and vector models – part 1 – erikbern.com
22. 9. 2015Presentations about Spotify music recommendations – erikbern.com
22. 9. 2015Presentations about Spotify music recommendations – erikbern.com
8. 9. 2015Antipodes – erikbern.com
8. 9. 2015Antipodes – erikbern.com
16. 8. 2015Software Engineers and Automation – erikbern.com
16. 8. 2015Software Engineers and Automation – erikbern.com
24. 7. 2015coin2dice – erikbern.com
24. 7. 2015coin2dice – erikbern.com
4. 7. 2015Benchmark of Approximate Nearest Neighbor libraries – erikbern.com
4. 7. 2015Benchmark of Approximate Nearest Neighbor libraries – erikbern.com
2. 7. 2015More Luigi alternatives – erikbern.com
2. 7. 2015More Luigi alternatives – erikbern.com
21. 6. 20153D in D3 – erikbern.com
21. 6. 20153D in D3 – erikbern.com
5. 6. 2015The hardest challenge about becoming a manager – erikbern.com
5. 6. 2015The hardest challenge about becoming a manager – erikbern.com
28. 5. 2015The lane next to you is more likely to be slower than yours – erikbern.com
28. 5. 2015The lane next to you is more likely to be slower than yours – erikbern.com
26. 5. 2015Better precision and faster index building in Annoy – erikbern.com
26. 5. 2015Better precision and faster index building in Annoy – erikbern.com
3. 5. 2015Annoy – now without Boost dependencies and with Python 3 Support – erikbern.com
3. 5. 2015Annoy – now without Boost dependencies and with Python 3 Support – erikbern.com
26. 4. 2015Ping the world – erikbern.com
26. 4. 2015Ping the world – erikbern.com
22. 4. 2015Black Box Machine Learning in the Cloud – erikbern.com
22. 4. 2015Black Box Machine Learning in the Cloud – erikbern.com
9. 4. 2015It’s called Berkson’s paradox! – erikbern.com
9. 4. 2015It's called Berkson's paradox! – erikbern.com
7. 4. 2015Norvig’s claim that programming competitions correlate negatively with being good on the job – erikbern.com
7. 4. 2015Norvig's claim that programming competitions correlate negatively with being good on the job – erikbern.com
14. 3. 2015Pinterest open sources Pinball – erikbern.com
14. 3. 2015Pinterest open sources Pinball – erikbern.com
26. 2. 2015The relationship between commit size and commit message size – erikbern.com
26. 2. 2015The relationship between commit size and commit message size – erikbern.com
22. 2. 2015My favorite management failures – erikbern.com
22. 2. 2015My favorite management failures – erikbern.com
11. 2. 2015Leaving Spotify – erikbern.com
11. 2. 2015Leaving Spotify – erikbern.com
13. 1. 2015Scala Data Pipelines for Music Recommendations – erikbern.com
13. 1. 2015Scala Data Pipelines for Music Recommendations – erikbern.com
30. 12. 2014Everything I learned about technical debt – erikbern.com
30. 12. 2014Everything I learned about technical debt – erikbern.com
28. 12. 2014I already found the best gifs – erikbern.com
28. 12. 2014I already found the best gifs – erikbern.com
20. 12. 2014A brief history of Hadoop at Spotify – erikbern.com
20. 12. 2014A brief history of Hadoop at Spotify – erikbern.com
17. 12. 2014Luigi Presentation @ NYC Data Science, Dec 16, 2014 – erikbern.com
17. 12. 2014Luigi Presentation @ NYC Data Science, Dec 16, 2014 – erikbern.com
16. 12. 2014Luigi talk tomorrow – erikbern.com
16. 12. 2014Luigi talk tomorrow – erikbern.com
11. 12. 2014Deep learning for… Go – erikbern.com
11. 12. 2014Deep learning for… Go – erikbern.com
8. 12. 2014Deep learning for… chess (addendum) – erikbern.com
8. 12. 2014Deep learning for… chess (addendum) – erikbern.com
29. 11. 2014Deep learning for… chess – erikbern.com
29. 11. 2014Deep learning for… chess – erikbern.com
22. 11. 2014Optimizing things: everything is a proxy for a proxy for a proxy – erikbern.com
22. 11. 2014Optimizing things: everything is a proxy for a proxy for a proxy – erikbern.com
15. 11. 2014Luigi conquering the world – erikbern.com
15. 11. 2014Luigi conquering the world – erikbern.com
11. 11. 2014Annoying blog post – erikbern.com
11. 11. 2014Annoying blog post – erikbern.com
10. 10. 2014The Filter Bubble is Silly and you Can’t Guess What Happened Next – erikbern.com
10. 10. 2014The Filter Bubble is Silly and you Can't Guess What Happened Next – erikbern.com
7. 10. 2014Detecting corporate fraud using Benford’s law – erikbern.com
7. 10. 2014Detecting corporate fraud using Benford's law – erikbern.com
19. 8. 2014Running Theano on EC2 – erikbern.com
19. 8. 2014Running Theano on EC2 – erikbern.com
30. 7. 2014In defense of false positives (why you can't fail with A/B tests) – erikbern.com
30. 7. 2014In defense of false positives (why you can't fail with A/B tests) – erikbern.com
28. 6. 2014Recurrent Neural Networks for Collaborative Filtering – erikbern.com
28. 6. 2014Recurrent Neural Networks for Collaborative Filtering – erikbern.com
17. 6. 2014Where do locals go in NYC? – erikbern.com
17. 6. 2014Where do locals go in NYC? – erikbern.com
8. 6. 2014How to build up a data team (everything I ever learned about recruiting) – erikbern.com
8. 6. 2014How to build up a data team (everything I ever learned about recruiting) – erikbern.com
24. 4. 2014The power of ensembles – erikbern.com
24. 4. 2014The power of ensembles – erikbern.com
12. 4. 2014MLConf 2014 – erikbern.com
12. 4. 2014MLConf 2014 – erikbern.com
1. 4. 2014Music recommendations using cover images (part 1) – erikbern.com
1. 4. 2014Music recommendations using cover images (part 1) – erikbern.com
22. 3. 2014Welcome Echo Nest! – erikbern.com
22. 3. 2014Luigi success – erikbern.com
22. 3. 2014Welcome Echo Nest! – erikbern.com
22. 3. 2014Luigi success – erikbern.com
3. 3. 2014Momentum strategies – erikbern.com
3. 3. 2014Momentum strategies – erikbern.com
23. 1. 2014Ratio metrics – erikbern.com
23. 1. 2014Ratio metrics – erikbern.com
12. 1. 2014Benchmarking nearest neighbor libraries in Python – erikbern.com
12. 1. 2014Benchmarking nearest neighbor libraries in Python – erikbern.com
20. 12. 2013More recommender algorithms – erikbern.com
20. 12. 2013More recommender algorithms – erikbern.com
12. 12. 2013Microsoft’s new marketing strategy: give up – erikbern.com
12. 12. 2013Microsoft's new marketing strategy: give up – erikbern.com
6. 12. 2013Bagging as a regularizer – erikbern.com
6. 12. 2013Bagging as a regularizer – erikbern.com
2. 11. 2013Model benchmarks – erikbern.com
2. 11. 2013Model benchmarks – erikbern.com
18. 10. 2013statself.com – erikbern.com
18. 10. 2013statself.com – erikbern.com
16. 9. 2013Implicit data and collaborative filtering – erikbern.com
16. 9. 2013Implicit data and collaborative filtering – erikbern.com
4. 9. 2013Vote for our SXSW panel! – erikbern.com
4. 9. 2013Vote for our SXSW panel! – erikbern.com
17. 8. 2013What’s up with music recommendations? – erikbern.com
17. 8. 2013What's up with music recommendations? – erikbern.com
12. 8. 20133D – erikbern.com
12. 8. 20133D – erikbern.com
11. 8. 20132D embedding of 5k artists = WIN – erikbern.com
11. 8. 20132D embedding of 5k artists = WIN – erikbern.com
9. 8. 2013Delivering Music Recommendations – erikbern.com
9. 8. 2013Delivering Music Recommendations – erikbern.com
3. 8. 2013ML+Hadoop at NYC Predictive Analytics – erikbern.com
3. 8. 2013ML+Hadoop at NYC Predictive Analytics – erikbern.com
28. 7. 2013HubSpot’s Picture Shows how to Maintain Monocultures in the 21st Century – erikbern.com
28. 7. 2013HubSpot's Picture Shows how to Maintain Monocultures in the 21st Century – erikbern.com
27. 7. 2013More Luigi: Presentation from OSCON – erikbern.com
27. 7. 2013More Luigi: Presentation from OSCON – erikbern.com
24. 7. 2013Optimizing over multinomial distributions – erikbern.com
24. 7. 2013Optimizing over multinomial distributions – erikbern.com
26. 6. 2013More Luigi! – erikbern.com
26. 6. 2013More Luigi! – erikbern.com
19. 6. 2013hdfs2cass – erikbern.com
19. 6. 2013hdfs2cass – erikbern.com
16. 6. 2013NoDoc – erikbern.com
16. 6. 2013NoDoc – erikbern.com
2. 6. 2013Wikiphilia – erikbern.com
2. 6. 2013Wikiphilia – erikbern.com
31. 5. 2013Spotify’s Discovery page – erikbern.com
31. 5. 2013Spotify's Discovery page – erikbern.com
21. 5. 2013Fermat’s principle – erikbern.com
21. 5. 2013Fermat's principle – erikbern.com
7. 5. 2013Snakebite – erikbern.com
7. 5. 2013Snakebite – erikbern.com
27. 4. 2013Stuff that bothers me: “100x faster than Hadoop” – erikbern.com
27. 4. 2013Stuff that bothers me: “100x faster than Hadoop” – erikbern.com
26. 4. 2013Presentation about Luigi – erikbern.com
26. 4. 2013Presentation about Luigi – erikbern.com
13. 4. 2013Being data driven – erikbern.com
13. 4. 2013Being data driven – erikbern.com
12. 4. 2013Annoy – erikbern.com
12. 4. 2013Annoy – erikbern.com
22. 3. 2013More Luigi! – erikbern.com
22. 3. 2013More Luigi! – erikbern.com
27. 2. 2013ML at Twitter – erikbern.com
27. 2. 2013ML at Twitter – erikbern.com
6. 2. 2013I’m featured in Mashable – erikbern.com
6. 2. 2013I'm featured in Mashable – erikbern.com
27. 1. 2013Slides from NYC Machine Learning talk – erikbern.com
27. 1. 2013Slides from NYC Machine Learning talk – erikbern.com
22. 1. 2013NYC Machine Learning meetup – erikbern.com
22. 1. 2013NYC Machine Learning meetup – erikbern.com
13. 1. 2013Momentum and mean reversion might just be volatility bias – erikbern.com
13. 1. 2013Momentum and mean reversion might just be volatility bias – erikbern.com
5. 12. 2012Calculating cosine similarities using dimensionality reduction – erikbern.com
5. 12. 2012Calculating cosine similarities using dimensionality reduction – erikbern.com
18. 11. 2012Tumblr’s awesome project names – erikbern.com
18. 11. 2012Tumblr's awesome project names – erikbern.com
29. 10. 2012A neat little trick with time decay – erikbern.com
29. 10. 2012A neat little trick with time decay – erikbern.com
21. 10. 2012Luigi: complex pipelines of tasks in Python – erikbern.com
21. 10. 2012Luigi: complex pipelines of tasks in Python – erikbern.com
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