[1] I live, work, & run a biz in the Eastside suburbs of Seattle which are ground zero for SARS-CoV-2 aka #CoronaVirusSeattle. Here are the things not being talked about enough: 1) Local hospital isolation rooms are full of COVID-19 patients who haven’t yet been reported.

We are releasing the biggest ever (160 million samples) recommender system public dataset today with RecSysChallenge 2020. Please go check out the website: recsys-twitter.com

One of the most painful lessons of this crisis is the extent to which America cannot or will not identify with Chinese pain. Every horror that is happening here happened first in Wuhan. We covered it. Many people did not care.

Feel extremely need dessert and treats when socially alone 😌

Two years ago, I heard my friends who were taking programming languages course commenting that teaching cobol was a crime (quoted from Edsger Dijkstra in fact). Wait, what year is it now? 🤣

Kurzgesagt + The Anthropocene Reviewed🤔 The Past We Can Never Return To – The Anthropocene Reviewed youtu.be/YbgnlkJPga4 via YouTube

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Such an incredibly sad figure. It shows a substantial drop in percentage of female first author papers submitted during lockdown. timeshighereducation.com/news/pandemic-…

致敬𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐘𝐎𝐑𝐊𝐄𝐑风格的《上海人》主题封面设计 theshanghairen.com

We’ve completed the deposit of all public repositories in the GitHub Arctic Code Vault to preserve open source software for generations to come. github.blog/2020-07-16-git…

I thought I would share how I, as someone who is visually impaired use my iPhone.☺️

We have 2 papers accepted to recsys 2020. One of them is Model Size Reduction Using Frequency Based Double Hashing for Recsys. We proposed a hybrid hashing method to combine both frequency and double hashing without compromising performance. arxiv.org/pdf/2007.14523…

Seems like Blade Runner 2049 is no more a Sci-Fi...

New paper. Word2vec for recs at Twitter. tinyurl.com/y2tpkwq2 We show: 1/ don't use the default params for recs 2/ you can do much better without increasing the runtime 3/ even for large data, you can optimise on a sample 4/ works online. 15% higher follow rate #RecSys2020

In this blog post, we try to summarize the recently concluded RecSysChallenge 2020 and share what we learned from it. We are so proud of what we achieved together and grateful to the amazing teams from Twitter and ACM RecSys behind it. blog.twitter.com/engineering/en…

After a long wait, we are finally announcing the #Recsys2021 challenge! This year we are releasing around 1 billion samples, largest social network dataset by far, with an added focus on fair recommendations. Please checkout our website recsys-twitter.com for more details.

In the long term, seeing the painful chaos might be a unique chance to really know who he is and how wild a company like TSLA operates. I tend to question whether his success is due to the right timing, with a management model that fails to scale to software companies.