Rationality “Rationality” Research aka Staring At The Ceiling... This semester my research is related to some ideas I have regarding why humans and animals alike are able to learn and generalize so
AppStorey The Untold Story of NeXT... Learning From The Past I really enjoy learning about the history of computing and scientific discoveries as the stories behind the work are often even more interesting than the innovations
Welcome! Welcome to new home for the Quarks & Bits Blog! I will update this site with new and old posts soon enough :) A Bit About Me I am Computer Science,
elasticsearch THE CONFERENCE...FOR YOU KNOW SEARCH: ELASTICON 2015 It is very fitting that my first blog post in a long while is about Elasticsearch and some highlights of what I learned at ElasticOn 2015. I have been using Elasticsearch professionally to varying degrees for almost two years now (note, I’ve also
Information Security HACKCATION 2014: DEFCON 22 DefCon == My Nerd Nirvana Las Vegas is one of my favorite cities in the US. Why? Because I like flashing lights, loud noises and free drinks. I can now add one more thing about Vegas that I love (well at least once a year)
Minhash SHINGLING + MINHASH: BASIC NEAR DUPLICATE DOCUMENT DETECTION Introduction Picture it…New York City 2014, two documents walk into a bar. We are given the task to determine if the documents are duplicates of each other or if they are just near duplicates. How would we do this if we weren't allowed
python A CURIOUS TALE: TWITTER STREAMING API + GOOGLE APP ENGINE Introducing OpenLSH A few months ago I attended a Boston Data Mining meetup where a cool, fellow techie J Singh did a presentation on an algorithm called Locality Sensitive Hashing. During his presentation J expressed an interest in developing an open source library that
