Published in Towards Data Science·PinnedHow to Upload R Packages to ArtifactoryA Quick-Start Guide with Screenshots — CRAN on Artifactory Let’s say you want to upload your R packages somewhere so that others can download them. An easy way to do this is by using Artifactory to host a local CRAN repository. …Data Science4 min readData Science4 min read
Feb 4Playing “Codenames” Using Word EmbeddingsGithub repo is here: https://github.com/zscore/codenames-embeddings The Idea Codenames is a very popular board game, usually played with two teams of two or more players. There are two teams of players, and each team has one Spymaster and one or more Operatives. The operatives see this view: And spymasters see this view:AI6 min readAI6 min read
Jan 16, 2022Ten Questions from a Brand-New Tech ManagerAnswered by his future self one year later Backstory In August 2020, I started a new role as a Data Science Manager within my then-current company, trivago N.V.. This was my first people-management position, and I was a bit apprehensive about this shift. I was talking with my co-worker Matthias Endler…Management And Leadership5 min readManagement And Leadership5 min read
Published in Coinmonks·May 24, 2021Cryptocurrency Investment for 401k GuysI’ve become a crazy crypto guy during the COVID-19 lockdown. With nothing to do or buy and plentiful stimulus checks, one year later my crypto investment is up x4 (a couple of days ago it was x6). Being a generous person, I wanted to spread the Good Word about crypto…Cryptocurrency7 min readCryptocurrency7 min read
May 18, 2021Why are Programmers so particularly positive?when the world is so negative… I want to write here about tech worker idealism. And not just this general switch to more progressive positions among white-collar workers that we’ve noticed recently in the US. I’m talking about the Richard Stallman/Satoshi Nakomoto/Hacker Ethic anarchic spirit where everyone works together in a decentralized way (halfway building for…Technology6 min readTechnology6 min read
Published in Coinmonks·Jan 26, 2021Naive Cryptocurrency Investment StrategiesHow well do they work? — Let’s say that I wanted to invest some money into crypto (Hey, this sounds like a technology that could change the world!), but I don’t want to spend a lot of time researching projects. Or perhaps it’s too difficult for me to tell the difference between a good project and…Cryptocurrency5 min readCryptocurrency5 min read
Dec 13, 2020Beginner’s Guide to DeFi InvestingSo you’ve bought some Bitcoin and Ethereum, and you’re happy seeing your coins double in value this year. But both of these projects are pretty established, and you want to get a little closer to the cutting edge where you can see some 1000x gains. Well then maybe you want…Cryptocurrency9 min readCryptocurrency9 min read
Sep 1, 2019Living the Moderately Socialist Dream….If you’re a progressive in the U.S., you probably care about Underfunded education and ballooning student loan debt. Poor public transit and generally unbikable and unwalkable cities Mass Incarceration and the Prison/Industrial Complex Out of control healthcare costs and lack of affordable insurance Federal government denies climate change Mass shootings Military/Industrial Complex Income InequalityGermany3 min readGermany3 min read
