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ML Scientist @Uber in🗽🚕 Working on RecSys /CausalML 📈🪄 PhD Stats. BS in Math. 👨‍💻📚 Running long distances, reading long books. Find me here dravesb.github.io
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What app are folks using for e-readers these days? I’m a physical book + digital notes guy but the confines of my Manhattan apartment is causing me to start buying digital - any recommendations?

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

So locked in open.spotify.com/track/11AEDk...

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve been implementing some time series type estimates at work this week and man oh man the indexing / naming conventions have me 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Got an email, "Thank you for coverage․py." I immediately thought, "they're going to want something, or complain about something." Nope! It was all positive. Ended with "Thanks again for this awesome Python contribution!" If you like what someone has done, tell them!

submitted 87 days ago • 4 comments

Getting a new laptop Monday - so excited to set up everything “right” this time only for it to explode immediately.

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

I was agonizing over why our SPR performance took a nose dive last week. Spent times in the logs, staring at feature values, investigating the FPR. The front end was using rankings[::-1] not rankings 🙃 Sometimes the 10x work is not trusting a thing that comes out of the API.

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

I forgot how nice it is to open an app and be flooded with cool ML/Stats-y stuff. Bluesky has big happy hour at a conference vibes and it’s 👌

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I made one for stats papers

submitted 102 days ago • 15 comments

I’m revisiting some original RecSys papers in prep for a new team-member joining and the figures in the original GroupLens paper are just so 🔥 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

Network growth models that accommodate starter parks (e.g. vertex —> block edge expansions) is already so fascinating me.

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

Hey folks👋 My name is Ben and I’m a Data Scientist at Uber working on RecSys and CausalML. I’m a proud statistician with interests in matrix analysis and graph inference. I live in NYC where I enjoy running long distances and reading a bit of everything. Find me here dravesb.github.io!

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