An application of item-based collaborative filtering with Turicreate and Python
Whether you are responsible for user experience and product strategy in a customer centric company, or sitting in your couch watching movies with loved ones, chances are you are already aware of some ways that recommendation technology is used to personalize your content and offers.
Recommendation systems are one of…
An Introduction to Self-Driving Cars (Part 4)
One of the things I enjoy the most in learning about self-driving cars is simply realizing how much resemblance a set of computing machines could bear to our human body. A part that stood out to me is perception, as it takes after many of the visual functionalities in our…
An Introduction to Self-Driving Cars (Part 3)
Previously, we discussed about why self-driving car is the future and how we got here today by looking at the history of transportation. …
Follow me on this exciting journey to dive into the world of robotics and artificial intelligence, through understanding the application of self-driving cars.
Chapter 1 — Overview: Why self-driving cars are the future, and how did we get here?
Chapter 2 — HD Mapping: How to build maps as the…
On HD Mapping — an Introduction to Self-Driving Cars (Part 2)
The ability to get from one place to another, anywhere in the country, is one of the most remarkable gifts of our modern technology. Maps represent the real world on a much smaller scale. They help us travel from one location to another. They help us organize information when we…
An Introduction to Self-Driving Cars (Part 1)
When I first helped the Autopilot team at Tesla in launching our Full Self-Driving beta release last year, I had never felt so close to the quality of our customers’ experience. …
A Beginner’s Guide to OKRs
During the first few years of my journey as a software engineer and a data scientist, I have watched good, ambitious goals and projects crashed with a little or no use despite months of development. Making sure we set and achieve high-impact goals is a critical responsibility at the start…
The most invaluable qualities I learned from the best manager I’ve worked with.
When I first plunged into the self-driving industry, I didn’t know what I signed up for. Insert the following into the picture:
- engineering problems with solutions not yet invented, which can make work always exciting and full of challenges
- a hyper-intense environment with long hours, which can make work feel…
I’d like to dedicate this Valentine’s day to someone I recently got to know better. Like all great love stories, our relationship did not start out easy. Despite all the fairytales you’ve heard, it wasn’t love at first sight. In fact, it was rough for so many years. How we…
Why Plotly is a great exploratory tool for data scientists
In the past two years working in the tech industry as a data scientist, I have used a variety of exploratory tools to build web apps for both technical and non-technical stakeholders. …
