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• Interview of Hacker Gummo Part 1, Part 2
• Inspirational reddit comment by a 30-year-old bartender who wants to get into computer science and dreams about finally finishing his bachelor’s degree. Refreshingly intimate. The internet would be a better place if more people shared their vulnerabilities. We all struggle from time to time, but by default we keep it to ourselves.
• A thorough analysis of George Hotz’s mind. I admire George for his integrity. He has his own philosophy of life and acts accordingly. He never does what is popular, but what he thinks is right.
• Don’t just blindly follow rules, do what you believe is right. FICO’s Explainable Machine Learning Challenge asks participants to build a black box machine learning model for credit risk prediction, and afterwards explain how the model works. Instead of following the competition’s rules, one team used an interpretable model instead of a black box model, arguing that interpretable models do not, per default, come at the cost of predictive performance. They created a nice visualization tool which explains the model’s predicted credit default risk for any particular instance.