I recently read Kritzmen and Li’s clever 2010 paper Skulls, Financial Turbulence, and Risk Management. Kritzmen and Li characterize financial turbulence as a period where established financial relationships uncouple, prices swing, and market predictions break down. Does that sound like financial markets in 2020? Yup. So I thought it would be interesting to take a… Read More Financial Turbulence: Off the Chart
In this first post in a series on recommendation systems, we’re going to develop a powerful but highly intuitive representation for user behavior that will allow us to easily make recommendations. Since we’re going to be making heavy use of the Goodreads data set in the series, we’ll formulate our basic recommendation system problem as… Read More Recommendation Systems: Co-occurrence Calculations
Today, I am announcing a series of posts I am developing about recommendation systems. The series is aimed at software/machine learning engineers. I have two goals for the series: Provide practical and implementable strategies for delivering recommendations in real-time Present the mathematical intuition behind recommender problems The reason for the first goal is that I… Read More A Practical Series on Recommendation Systems
If you are reading this, you probably already know that data pre-processing is the 90% perspiration of machine learning. You might love it or you might dread it, but you probably don’t think of it as a the part of ML where the most interesting mathematics lives. Let me challenge that view a bit with… Read More Can you norm rows and standardize columns at the same time?