Ben Letham @_bletham_

facebook core data science lethalletham.com Joined February 2019

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Ben Letham @_bletham_

3 years ago

WOW the response to our upcoming #AISTATS paper has been incredible. Here is a compilation of just a few of the paper reaction videos: youtu.be/dx0TBmM4wcI

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Sean J. Taylor @seanjtaylor

5 years ago

😂 I hope this is the start of a trend for promoting papers

Ben Letham @_bletham_

5 years ago

😂 I hope this is the start of a trend for promoting papers

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If AI papers were pharmaceuticals: Do you suffer from high-dimensional Bayesian optimization? Watch this commercial to understand how our #NeurIPS2020 paper can help you get back to living your life! youtu.be/fbEwVxXYSok

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Ben Letham @_bletham_

5 years ago

I extracted repeated phrases from Biden and Trump speeches to create a bingo card generator. To be used in 2 days! #DebateBingo lethalletham.com/posts/debatebi…

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Ben Letham @_bletham_

5 years ago

Introducing the Truncated Sine distribution, denoted TrSin. The main application is modeling the probability of a smoke detector starting "low battery" beeping, which is 0 during the day and peaks from 12a-4a.

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Ben Letham @_bletham_

5 years ago

Just learned some fun, apropos history: the classic method for estimating excess flu mortality and detecting epidemics is called Serfling regression. It's a linear regression with Fourier terms to model flu seasonality. (Prophet does the same). ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

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Mozilla @mozilla

5 years ago

At Mozilla, we’ve noticed a recent increase in desktop usage of @firefox. Because this data may have some value to researchers investigating #SocialDistancing measures, we're releasing a dataset to support this collaborative effort. mzl.la/3dOYoV4

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Ben Letham @_bletham_

5 years ago

This post describes a really exciting use of Prophet to understand the impact of social distancing on Firefox usage (+@seanjtaylor)

Jesse McCrosky @mccrosky

5 years ago

This post describes a really exciting use of Prophet to understand the impact of social distancing on Firefox usage (+@seanjtaylor)

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Ben Letham @_bletham_

5 years ago

If you're looking for some levity while stuck at home, this video may help.

Sean J. Taylor @seanjtaylor

6 years ago

If you're looking for some levity while stuck at home, this video may help.

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John Myles White @johnmyleswhite

6 years ago

Of all the things that shocked me in grad school, I still find it really shocking that no one is doing code reviews in science. It was the clearest sign that people were fundamentally uninterested in how the sausage got made — but so much of what’s important was in those details.

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Sean J. Taylor @seanjtaylor

6 years ago

🎉Prophet v0.6 is now out for Python and R.🎉 Props to @_bletham_ who did the majority of the work and to Chris Suchanek who did the cmdstanpy integration. Github: github.com/facebook/proph… CRAN: cran.r-project.org/web/packages/p… PyPI: pypi.org/project/fbprop… Docs: facebook.github.io/prophet/

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Dean Eckles @deaneckles

6 years ago

Interested in large-scale, rapid experimentation in the Internet industry? There are multiple sessions tomorrow at #jsm2019 on the topic. I'm moderating this panel with experts from FANG in CC-703. Will dig into statistical, computational, and practical issues.