February 2020

Hard Startups

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The most counterintuitive secret about startups is that it’s often easier to succeed with a hard startup than an easy one.  A hard startup requires a lot more money, time, coordination, or technological development than most startups. A good hard startup is one that will be valuable if it works (not all hard problems are worth solving!). I remember when Instagram started to get really popular—it felt like you couldn’t go a day without hearing about another photo […]

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Coronavirus and Machine Learning Conferences

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I’ve been following the renamed COVID-19 epidemic closely since potential exponentials deserve that kind of attention. The last few days have convinced me it’s a good idea to start making contingency plans for machine learning conferences like ICML. The plausible options happen to be structurally aligned with calls to enable reduced travel to machine learning conferences, but of course the need is much more immediate. I’ll discuss relevant observations about COVID-19 and then the impact on machine learning […]

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SQL Part 2.

SQL Part 2.

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SQL is a very organized, functional but tricky language. It is tricky because you have to logically think about which things or variables need to be factored in in order to smartly obtain important data from a table/database. I learnt a lot in one of my projects about handling some of the functions used in SQL and how they are used so that we can query a dataset with relevant data. It does get tricky, lets see some […]

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