The Too Good To Be True Filter
I just published a new post on the Datacratic blog: The Too Good To Be True Filter.
At Datacratic, one of the product we offer our customers is our real-time bidding (RTB) optimisation that can plug directly into any RTBKit installation. We’re always hard at work to improve our optimisation capabilities so clients can identify valuable impres [...]
MapReduce avec parallel, cat et une r...
Je viens de publier un article, MapReduce avec parallel, cat et une redirection, sur le blogue de Datacratic.
La loi 78 et le filtre antipourriel d...
Je voulais revenir sur le problème de filtre antipourriel chez Vidéotron qui a eu la malheureuse conséquence de bloquer tous les courriels contenant un lien vers la Pétition d’appui à la requête en nullité du Projet de loi spéciale 78 pour au moins plusieurs heures hier.
Pour résumer le problème d’hier, tout message transitant à travers [...]
Loi 78: Courriels contenant un lien v...
Voir mise à jour au bas du message. À 20h le problème semble avoir été réglé. Une explication a été publiée sur Facebook vers 21h.
Après avoir vu des rumeurs sur Facebook prétendant que Vidéotron bloquait les courriels de ses membres mentionnant la Pétition d’appui à la requête en nullité du Projet de loi spéciale 78, je n’y croya [...]
Hibernating in OSX Lion
In OSX Lion (might also be the case for older versions to), there is no direct way to hibernate a laptop except running out of battery power. The only available option is sleep, which will wake from memory; so it keeps draining the battery. It is possible to change this default behavior with the utility pmset. From the man page:
We do no [...]
Efficient log processing
I’ve recently learned a couple of neat tricks to process large amounts of text files more efficiently from my new co-worker @nicolaskruchten. Our use-case is efficiently going through tens of gigabytes of logs to extract specific lines and do some operation on them. Here are a couple of things we’ve done to speed things up.
Keep [...]
64-bit Scientific Python on Windows
Getting a 64-bit installation of Python with scientific packages on our dear Windows isn’t as simple as running an apt-get or port command. There is an official 64-bit Python build available but extensions like numpy, scipy or matplotlib only have official 32-bit builds. There are commercial distributions such as Enthought that offer al [...]
Boston Music Hackday
ISMIR 2009
I had a paper accepted with an oral presentation at this year’s ISMIR held in Kobe, Japan. The paper is called Steerable Playlist Generation by Learning Song Similarity from Radio Station Playlists and is co-authored with Eck, Desjardins and Lamere. It outlines two new ideas:
Using commercial radio station playlists to learn a similari [...]
My time at Sun Labs and pyaura
My internship at Sun Microsystems Labs, which has been going on for about 15 months – 9 of those full time at their campus in the Boston area – is coming to an end. During the course of those months, I’ve met a lot of very smart and fun people, I’ve worked on very challenging and stimulating problems and I’ve dis [...]