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IP addresses might only be accurate to the city level.
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IP addresses might only be accurate to the city level.

But that’s still useful, e.g., for determining that New York Pizza (http://www.nypizza.info/) Continue reading on »

Data Recycling
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Data Recycling

One technique I’ve seen succeed again and again is data recycling. You may be doing it already. If not, you should add it to your toolbox. Continue reading on ...

Great post!
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Great post!

http://thenoisychannel.com/2012/03/18/facing-prosopagnosia Continue reading on »

The End of Intellectual Property?
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The End of Intellectual Property?

Some people fear the singularity. I have a more mundane concern: are we approaching the end of intellectual property? Continue reading on »

I’m not saying that all CTO roles wouldn’t have played to my strengths and passions, just that this…
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I’m not saying that all CTO roles wouldn’t have played to my strengths and passions, just that this…

I’m something of a hybrid between a chief scientist, engineering leader, and product leader. But I’m not particularly an IT and operations… Continue reading on...

Thrilled to see Melinda Gates prioritizing her investments to focus on women in tech!
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Thrilled to see Melinda Gates prioritizing her investments to focus on women in tech!

My suggestion isn’t particularly original, but I believe it bears repeating: we need to develop a more data-driven, rubric-based approach… Continue reading on ...

Professional Networking
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Professional Networking

I’m a strong believer in professional networking, as you may have guessed from my long-term obsession with LinkedIn. Continue reading on »

Not expecting sympathy  I made a mistake, and I own it.
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Not expecting sympathy I made a mistake, and I own it.

But, in case it wasn’t clear in the post, I had invested a fair amount of time into the company before that last contact, and my… Continue reading on

What does it take to Lead Data Scientists?
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What does it take to Lead Data Scientists?

You think it’s hard to hire data scientists? Try hiring a data science leader! Continue reading on

Seniority Considered Harmful
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Seniority Considered Harmful

Technical hiring in Silicon Valley aspires to be a meritocracy, but anyone who has looked at the data knows that there is rampant… Continue reading on

No objection from me there.
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No objection from me there.

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Agreed. Perhaps my biggest take-away from this experience is to have a much stronger reaction to
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Agreed. Perhaps my biggest take-away from this experience is to have a much stronger reaction to

any behavior that gives me a bad feeling — and especially to make sure all such reactions are cumulative. Continue reading on

Fixed.
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Fixed.

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Fair point, Ive managed incredible interns myself that I have put on important prohlems.
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Fair point, Ive managed incredible interns myself that I have put on important prohlems.

But in this case I felt the intern’s lack of domain experience was an issue. Continue reading on

The Uncanny Valley of Chatbots
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The Uncanny Valley of Chatbots

In 1970, roboticist Masahiro Mori coined the phrase “uncanny valley” (不気味の谷 in the original Japanese) to denote the phenomenon that when a… Continue reading on...

I didn’t put that there – it must have been added as part of publishing the post on Startup Grind.
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I didn’t put that there – it must have been added as part of publishing the post on Startup Grind.

Regardless, I just removed it. Continue reading on »

Summarization and Refinement Tags in Folksonomies
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Summarization and Refinement Tags in Folksonomies

This paper, which I co-authored with Joyce Wang and Vladimir Zelevinsky when we were all at Endeca, originally appeared in the proceedings… Continue reading on...

Thanks, but I can’t take credit for that — and I don’t recall seeing it when I published the post.
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Thanks, but I can’t take credit for that — and I don’t recall seeing it when I published the post.

Perhaps it was added by the Startup Grind publication. Continue reading on »

It’s certainly not the way an advisory role should work, but I wouldn’t go so far as to call it a…
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It’s certainly not the way an advisory role should work, but I wouldn’t go so far as to call it a…

So I agree that it’s a flag, but I wouldn’t go so far as to call it a red flag. Continue reading on »

No. I believed that they brought me on as an advisor so I could help them solve their problem.
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No. I believed that they brought me on as an advisor so I could help them solve their problem.

And I spent a bunch of time with their team. It was only later that they started dropping my name to VCs — in fact, after May when I’d… Continue reading on »
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