How AlphaGo Works

There are tons of AlphaGo thinkpieces so I'll refer you to Google for those. Here are two I like.

DeepMind videos Atlantic

Briefly, suppose you didn't know anything about Poker but still wanted to play. If you were presented with possible moves you could make at each …

There are tons of great PyCon talks on YouTube and I haven't even scratched the surface of what's out there but here are a few that struck me.

Development of Open-Source Communities

Keynote - EuroSciPy 2015 - Pieter Hintjens

Key points:

1. Wikipedia is the model
2. It has no competition!
3. The model clearly …

[Note: This post started out as a letter to a friend who's looking to get into Data Science. It goes without saying it's all my opinion.]

Data science is very popular...too popular! I'm concerned it'll all collapse in a few years either because expectations are too high, or, more …