Metrics for Evaluating Recommender Systems
May 01, 2024Adding some notes I took on recommender systems while working at Vizio. This is not proprietary knowledge, and is just a summary of some…
Written by Jon Lamar: Machine learning engineer, former aspiring mathematician, cyclist, family person.
My name is Jon. I am a machine learning engineer currently looking for the next opportunity. I did my PhD in math and try to keep at the cutting edge of mathematically interesting tech. This blog has some notes and examples of things I find interesting.
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A Statistical Test for Difference of Two Rates
May 01, 2024Adding notes I took while trying to understand how to AB test an intervention on churn rate. Setup The Scenario Suppose we are a…
Notes on Reinforcement Learning 4
April 17, 2024I was studying reinforcement learning a while ago, attempting to educate myself about deep Q learning. As part of that effort, I read…
A Project in "Full Stack" Reinforcement Learning
January 29, 2023Last year, my partner bought me a robotics kit for playing with RL. This was right before I started at Amazon Go, so I quickly became too…
Notes on Reinforcement Learning 2
January 28, 2023I was studying reinforcement learning a while ago, attempting to educate myself about deep Q learning. As part of that effort, I read…
Notes on Reinforcement Learning 1
January 28, 2023I was studying reinforcement learning a while ago, attempting to educate myself about deep Q learning. As part of that effort, I read…
Notes on Reinforcement Learning 3
January 28, 2023I was studying reinforcement learning a while ago, attempting to educate myself about deep Q learning. As part of that effort, I read…
Supervised Machine Learning Models
February 20, 2022Here is a list of quick, memorizable descriptions of various machine learning algorithms. I put this list together for interview prep for…
Unsupervised Machine Learning Models
February 20, 2022Here is a list of quick, memorizable descriptions of various unsupervised algorithms that can be used for analysis, dimension reduction, and…
Scala and Category Theory 2
April 09, 2021I'm interested in the more category-theoretic aspects of functional programming. To this end, I have been working towards an elevator pitch…
Scala and Category Theory 1
February 17, 2021I'm interested in the more category-theoretic aspects of functional programming. To this end, I have been working towards an elevator pitch…
Stats 4 - Hypothesis Testing II
February 16, 2021The other hypothesis testing doc covered some extreme basics, and left a lot of questions unanswered (but what about the geometry of error…
Stats 3 - Hypothesis Testing I
February 15, 2021Statistical Experiments A statistical experiment consists of the following data: A set of iid random variables with a common (unknown…
Stats 2 - Parameter Estimation
February 14, 2021Distances Between Distributions Total Variation Distance: The total variation distance between distributions and , with density functions…
Stats 1 - Basic concepts
February 13, 2021This begins a series of notes that I took while studying for a stats class in 2019 on edX here. These notes were incomplete, so take…
Vim Presentation
June 05, 2020These are notes for a presentation that I gave to coworkers at Charter on the history of vim and how to configure it for development. I…
Snake Genetic Model
February 14, 2020Overview I wanted to build a neural network to play snake. My original idea was to use reinforcement learning, but I found a genetic…