Your Algorithm

Rehab gave a reality TV producer tools that saved his life. Now he’s giving back
2 years, 6 months ago

Rehab gave a reality TV producer tools that saved his life. Now he’s giving back

Joel Relampagos started learning how to box earlier this year when he turned 40. “And I remember thinking, ‘There’s no way I could stop at one glass.’” His addiction was …

LA Times
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Netflix prize: learning how to fix algorithms when everything goes haywire.
13 years, 4 months ago

Netflix prize: learning how to fix algorithms when everything goes haywire.

After I described last week how machines learn by accepting “training sets”—real-world data they use to construct their algorithms—I got an email from Slate patron saint R.M. * For the …

Slate
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