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We Analyzed $485M in Stolen Checks(resources.sentilink.com)
2 points by naftaliharris 2y ago|0 comments
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What birthdays do fraudsters pick for synthetic identities?(resources.sentilink.com)
1 points by naftaliharris 2y ago|0 comments
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Why I've Liked Chess So Much(naftaliharris.com)
2 points by naftaliharris 6y ago|0 comments
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In defense of the IPO, and how to improve it(a16z.com)
74 points by naftaliharris 6y ago|21 comments
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by naftaliharris 6y ago
Original author here. I built this a few years ago, and the main motivation at the time was that I'd heard people say that adding the new features in Python3 required breaking backwards compatibility, which I didn't believe. IMO t
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by naftaliharris 7y ago
SentiLink | Software Engineer (backend, platform, infra, machine learning, data science) | ONSITE | San Francisco, CA | sentilink.com SentiLink prevents synthetic fraud, an emerging fraud vector in which fraudsters open accounts using name&
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by naftaliharris 7y ago
SentiLink | Software Engineer (backend, platform, infra, machine learning) | ONSITE | San Francisco, CA | sentilink.com SentiLink prevents synthetic fraud, an emerging fraud vector in which fraudsters open accounts using name/DOB/
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by naftaliharris 9y ago
Two super interesting things about this kind of fraud which make it especially tricky to catch and deal with: 1. Unlike with ID theft, there's no consumer victim. With ID theft, eventually the victim will find out about it, (by getting
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by naftaliharris 9y ago
SentiLink | Backend, Security, and Machine Learning Engineers | San Francisco | ONSITE SentiLink is reinventing identity, beginning with financial services in the United States. The current system is broken: SSN's are used as both a us
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by naftaliharris 9y ago
It's pretty surprising students think they can get away with this. If there's any class you'd get caught in, it'd be a CS class. In the CS classes I took in undergrad and grad school, the professors would tell everyone t
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by naftaliharris 9y ago
Do customers not want to try out the bike before buying? Especially for $5k+...?
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Bart takeover robbery(sfchronicle.com)
10 points by naftaliharris 9y ago|6 comments
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by naftaliharris 9y ago
You probably wouldn't expect them to. But the same kind of Stein phenomenon holds under a much broader set of conditions, including arbitrary covariance matrices and arbitrary quadratic loss, (see e.g. [1]). It's a very general ph
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by naftaliharris 9y ago
A less popular but perhaps more influential phenomenon is Stein's Paradox [1]. Here's a provocative example often given to illustrate it: Say you have a baseball player, soccer player, and football player, and you wish to estimate
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by naftaliharris 9y ago
One thing this article and the comments haven't discussed yet is how much the viability of local newspapers depends on the local real estate market. Take a look at your local newspaper if you have one, and I bet it's chock full of
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The Communication Loss Function(naftaliharris.com)
1 points by naftaliharris 10y ago|0 comments
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by naftaliharris 10y ago
I'm surprised the article and comments haven't mentioned CreditKarma's tax solution yet, which is (actually) free. [1] Presumably their strategy is to take the users and data they get from offering free tax filing and use the
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Logistic Regression Isn't Interpretable(naftaliharris.com)
2 points by naftaliharris 10y ago|0 comments
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Nontrivial: Exception Handling in Python(naftaliharris.com)
1 points by naftaliharris 10y ago|0 comments
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by naftaliharris 10y ago
Yes, Tauthon. ( https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon ). It lets people with Python 2 code start to use new features from Python 3. (It's a backwards-compatible fork of Python 2.7 with features like async/aw
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Implementing “nonlocal” in Tauthon(naftaliharris.com)
1 points by naftaliharris 10y ago|0 comments
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by naftaliharris 10y ago
(I'm the primary author of this interpreter). > Backporting features will be hard It's actually pretty straightforward: I just find the relevant changes in the Python 3 history, and apply them to Python 2. Usually a handful of
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Vax(vax.herokuapp.com)
1 points by naftaliharris 10y ago|0 comments
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by naftaliharris 10y ago
This article misses one of the biggest value-adds of arXiv, at least in my field (Statistics): since almost everyone posts to arXiv, you can almost always find a free version of a published and potentially pay-walled paper. In the past, pub
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by naftaliharris 10y ago
> the writing has been officially on the wall ever since 2011 so at that point you have to admit you did choose to incur tech debt and do nothing about it, so the claimed loss of productivity is on you. When Python 3 was released, it off
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by naftaliharris 10y ago
> It's also especially irresponsible and hubristic to attempt to make a language that is seemingly compatible with both Python 2 and 3, because 1) I trust that if it was possible Guido and the other developers would have made it It
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by naftaliharris 10y ago
Author here. Imagine my surprise when I got back from a day of sightseeing (I'm on vacation in Spain) and saw that this had blown up. I had intended to "release" this project after New Years, after I'd gotten back and a
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41 Elections as seen on the NYT(nytimes.com)
3 points by naftaliharris 10y ago|0 comments
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by naftaliharris 10y ago
http://sebastianraschka.com/ has some great articles for machine learning in Python.
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Splix.io(splix.io)
148 points by naftaliharris 10y ago|45 comments

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