Machined Learnings

When I was coming up, conferences were a mature technology for disseminating high-quality scientific results at higher speed than journals. ...

This slide is from Leon Bottou's amazing ICML 2015 keynote .  You should contemplate this image on a regular basis. In the above slide L...

Here's an example of a research question that started as a practical concern and ended up having science-fiction levels of potential. ...

This blog post is about improved off-policy contextual bandit learning via distributional robustness. I'll provide some theoretical bac...

If you need to solve a convex optimization problem nowadays, you are in great shape. Any problem of the form $$ \begin{alignat}{2} &\...