Erik Bernhardsson

@erik_bernhardsson@robot.villas

Erik Bernhardsson's essays on software engineering, data, infrastructure, technology companies, and building products.

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Annoy 1.10 released, with Hamming distance and Windows support #SoftwareEngineering #DataScience #OpenSource
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Nov 26, 2017
Why conversion matters: a toy model #DataScience #MachineLearning #Tech
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Oct 30, 2017
On the Equifax breach and how to really prevent identity theft #DataSecurity #CyberSecurity #Privacy
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Sep 26, 2017
The number of letters in the word for each number #Data #SoftwareEngineering #Language
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Sep 6, 2017
The software engineering rule of 3 #SoftwareEngineering #Tech #Data
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Aug 29, 2017
Machine, Platform, Crowd #SoftwareEngineering #DataScience #Technology
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Aug 19, 2017
Google diversity memo, global warming, Pascal's wager, and other stuff #Tech #Data #Essays
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Aug 14, 2017
Fun with trigonometry: the world's most twisted coastline #Math #Science #Data
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Jul 12, 2017
Optimizing for iteration speed #SoftwareEngineering #ProductDevelopment #Tech
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Jul 6, 2017
Blogroll #SoftwareEngineering #Data #Tech
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Jun 9, 2017
Conversion rates - you are (most likely) computing them wrong #DataScience #Analytics #SoftwareEngineering
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May 23, 2017
The mathematical principles of management #Management #DataScience #SoftwareEngineering
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Apr 9, 2017
The eigenvector of "Why we moved from language X to language Y" #SoftwareEngineering #Data #Programming
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Mar 15, 2017
Why I went into the mortgage industry #Mortgage #Finance #Business
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Feb 17, 2017
Language pitch #SoftwareEngineering #Data #Technology
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Feb 1, 2017
Functional programming is the libertarianism of software engineering #SoftwareEngineering #FunctionalProgramming #Tech
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Jan 10, 2017
The half-life of code & the ship of Theseus #SoftwareEngineering #Data #Technology
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Dec 5, 2016
Are data sets the new server rooms? #Data #Infrastructure #Tech
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Nov 1, 2016
Pareto efficency #DataScience #MachineLearning #SoftwareEngineering
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Oct 25, 2016
State drift #SoftwareEngineering #Data #Infrastructure
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Sep 8, 2016
When machine learning matters #MachineLearning #DataScience #Tech
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Aug 5, 2016
Subway waiting math #Math #Science #Data
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Jul 9, 2016
Approximate nearest news #DataScience #MachineLearning #Tech
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Jun 2, 2016
What is your motivation? #Motivation #Career #Productivity
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May 24, 2016
Dollar cost averaging #Finance #Investing #Economics
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Apr 26, 2016
Why organizations fail #Organization #Management #Business
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Apr 18, 2016
NYC subway math #DataScience #Math #UrbanPlanning
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Apr 4, 2016
Exploding offers are bullshit #Tech #SoftwareEngineering #Business
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Mar 16, 2016
Meta-blogging #SoftwareEngineering #Data #Tech
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Mar 12, 2016
Iterate or die #SoftwareEngineering #Data #ProductDevelopment
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Mar 2, 2016
My issue with GPU-accelerated deep learning #MachineLearning #DeepLearning #AI
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Feb 3, 2016
Some more font links #SoftwareEngineering #Data #Technology
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Jan 25, 2016
Analyzing 50k fonts using deep neural networks #MachineLearning #DataScience #AI
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Jan 21, 2016
I believe in the 10x engineer, but... #SoftwareEngineering #Tech #Productivity
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Jan 8, 2016
Books I read in 2015 #Books #Reading #Personal
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Jan 1, 2016
More MCMC - Analyzing a small dataset with 1-5 ratings #DataScience #MachineLearning #Statistics
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Dec 5, 2015
There is no magic trick #SoftwareEngineering #Data #Technology
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Nov 28, 2015
Installing TensorFlow on AWS #MachineLearning #CloudComputing #DataScience
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Nov 12, 2015
Looking for smart people #SoftwareEngineering #Data #Hiring
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Nov 4, 2015
MCMC for marketing data #DataScience #Marketing #Statistics
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Oct 31, 2015

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