The Best Books that I read in 2014

Following the example of Bill Gates, here is the list of the best books I read this year: Work Data Science for Business, by Foster Provost. This book is hands down, the perfect book for those who want to get into the amazing world of Data Science. It starts from

What if a Zombie outbreak happened in Spain?

I found an interesting article in Max Berggren's Blog, where he implements an SIR Model, a Survival - Infected - Removed model that simulates the spread of diseases. Max did it for Norway, but I wanted to see what would happened if a Zombie outbreak would happen in my home

Building a Recommendation Engine for Reddit. Part 4

On this final part of my series about Building a recommendation engine for Reddit I will explain how to use the similarity engine on a web application. We left Part 3 with a fully functional similarity engine, that given a set of subreddits for a Redditor it would return the

Building a Recommendation Engine for Reddit. Part 3

We left Part 2 with a dataset including a set of Redditors and the Subreddits they comment on. We also defined which similarity index we are going to use to measure the similarity among each Subreddit. So, let's continue! Step 3. Calculating Subreddit similarity Let's refresh how we want the

What I learned today

Life * Today I learned that hackers can gain information about which sites have you visited by using CSS Selectors * Today I learned that I belong to a selective group with a genetic mutation that makes as hate cilantro (I HATE IT!) Work * Today I learned about Flask Command line Interface

Building a Recommendation Engine for Reddit. Part 2

Step 2. Building the dataset On part 1 of this tutorial we laid out the project in detail, and decided that in order to calculate the similarity between two subs, we just need to find the list of users on each one. However, this methodology becomes a computational problem when

Building a Recommendation Engine for Reddit. Part 1

This is the breakdown of how I built Find a Sub, a Recommendation Engine for Reddit. It might be helpful while you read the blog post if you clone the repository with the code. The reason why I built this is because I think that the default ways to discover

What I learned today

Life I learned that in Ubuntu, to restart Unity and get back all the widgets (a bug that happens from time to time removes some widgets from your panel), you can restart unity by doing: killall unity-panel-service I learned that in Ubuntu, in those cases where launchpad repositories cannot be

What I learned today

Life * I learned that almost every hospital-born child in the US appears on her first picture wrapped in the same blanket Work * I learned that in Go, the way to format a Time object into the format you want is by using Monday, January 2nd 2006 at 3:04pm as

What I learned today

Work * I learned that in Unix, you can use & to run a command in the background. A lightweight alternative to screen/tmux. Then you can use fg to bring that process to the foreground. Life * I learned that one of the first investors in Wizards of The Coast was a