Optimized Web Crawling
Got a fun optimization problem for you this week! It’s a two-for-one: how do you optimize the web crawling logic of an operation like Google search so that the results are, on average, as up-to-date a...
28 Okt 201821min
Better Know a Distribution: The Poisson Distribution
The Poisson distribution is a probability distribution function used to for events that happen in time or space. It’s super handy because it’s pretty simple to use and is applicable for tons of things...
22 Okt 201831min
Searching for Datasets with Google
If you wanted to find a dataset of jokes, how would you do it? What about a dataset of podcast episodes? If your answer was “I’d try Google,” you might have been disappointed—Google is a great search ...
15 Okt 201819min
It's our fourth birthday
We started Linear Digressions 4 years ago… this isn’t a technical episode, just two buddies shooting the breeze about something we’ve somehow built together.
8 Okt 201822min
Gigantic Searches in Particle Physics
This week, we’re dusting off the ol’ particle physics PhD to bring you an episode about ambitious new model-agnostic searches for new particles happening at CERN. Traditionally, new particles have bee...
30 Sep 201824min
Data Engineering
If you’re a data scientist, you know how important it is to keep your data orderly, clean, moving smoothly between different systems, well-documented… there’s a ton of work that goes into building and...
24 Sep 201816min
Text Analysis for Guessing the NYTimes Op-Ed Author
A very intriguing op-ed was published in the NY Times recently, in which the author (a senior official in the Trump White House) claimed to be a minor saboteur of sorts, acting with his or her colleag...
16 Sep 201818min
The Three Types of Data Scientists, and What They Actually Do
If you've been in data science for more than a year or two, chances are you've noticed changes in the field as it's grown and matured. And if you're newer to the field, you may feel like there's a dis...
9 Sep 201823min
