Marton Trencseni - Fri 20 January 2023 • Tagged with crypto, bitcoin, btc, ftx, ftt
I argue that anonymity, irreversibility and decentralization, while interesting technical features that implemented in a fascinating way using cryptographic primites, are not practical for real-world use.
Marton Trencseni - Mon 09 January 2023 • Tagged with crypto, bitcoin, btc, fiat
Are cryptocurrencies really better than fiat currencies? I argue that the answer is negative.
Marton Trencseni - Sat 24 December 2022 • Tagged with crypto, bitcoin, btc, ftx, ftt
The crypto space is a fascinating intersection of technology, economics and human psychology. However, I remain skeptical of the value of crypto tokens and NFTs. Here I explain my thought process using FTX Tokens as an example.
Marton Trencseni - Wed 21 December 2022 • Tagged with similarity, python, word2vec, doc2vec, pytorch, tensorflow
I use Doc2Vec to try to find pairs of similar API functions between Pytorch and Tensorflow.
Marton Trencseni - Sat 17 December 2022 • Tagged with gpt, gpt-3
I run experiments to determine whether, or to what degree, GPT-3 has developed an comprehension of spatial relationships.
Marton Trencseni - Thu 15 December 2022 • Tagged with book, management, engineering
I reflect on the core points of Fred Brooks' seminal book, The Mythical Man-Month, that I often recall and apply in my daily work.
Marton Trencseni - Mon 12 December 2022 • Tagged with gpt, gpt-3
Here I will show a "conversation" with GPT-3 to gauge how good an astrophysicist — or an illusion of an astrophysicist — it is. I will focus on cosmology questions, because that's most interesting part of the field.
Marton Trencseni - Sat 10 December 2022 • Tagged with similarity, python, gensim, word2vec, doc2vec, pyml
In the previous posts, I used the Doc2Vec neural network architecture to compute the similarities between my blog posts, and explored the quality of the scores. In this final post, I show how I added the final Articles You May Like recommendation sections to the blog — it's live!
Marton Trencseni - Sun 04 December 2022 • Tagged with similarity, python, gensim, word2vec, doc2vec, pyml
In the previous post, I used the Doc2Vec neural network architecture to compute the similarities between my blog posts. In this second post I investigate the results further by examining clusters in graphs.
Marton Trencseni - Sat 03 December 2022 • Tagged with similarity, python, gensim, word2vec, doc2vec, pyml
One of the things I learned at Facebook is the power of recommendations. Examples are People You May Know (PYMK), Groups You May Like (GYML) and Pages You May Like (PYML). Inspired by these, I am planning to add an Articles You May Like widget to Bytepawn, based on the semantic similarity of blog posts. I use the Doc2Vec neural network architecture to compute the similarity between my blog posts, and return the top 3 recommendations for each page.
Marton Trencseni - Wed 30 November 2022 • Tagged with timeseries, prophet, darts, python
One of the most common Data Science tasks in a business setting is timeseries forecasting. I was curious what methods and libraries other Data Scientists use, so I posted an "Ask HN" on Hacker News. The post generated 89 comments, most of them high-quality. This is my summary of the discussion.
Marton Trencseni - Sun 09 October 2022 • Tagged with monte-carlo, simulation, math
I use simple Monte Carlo simulations to estimate some mathematical constants: √2, ϕ, e and π.
Marton Trencseni - Sat 01 October 2022 • Tagged with interviewing
I will attempt to enumerate all the categories of questions commonly asked in technical interview loops, and my experience with them.
Marton Trencseni - Sat 24 September 2022 • Tagged with gpt, gpt-3
Here I will show a "conversation" with GPT-3 to gauge how good a particle physicist — or an illusion of a particle physicist — it is.
Marton Trencseni - Fri 23 September 2022 • Tagged with culture
I wrote a Culture Doc for the Data Science team I lead.
Marton Trencseni - Sat 03 September 2022 • Tagged with gpt, gpt-3
I have further "conversations" with GPT-3, this time asking more difficult questions about real-world Data Science projects I have personally worked on.
Marton Trencseni - Sun 31 July 2022 • Tagged with gpt, gpt-3
Recently I have been playing around with OpenAI's GPT-3 and I am very impressed by it. It reminds of the famous Arthur C. Clarke quote, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Here I will show a "conversation" with GPT-3 to gauge how good a Data Scientist — or an illusion of a Data Scientist — it is.
Marton Trencseni - Sat 23 July 2022 • Tagged with book, typography
The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst is the most beautiful book I've ever held in my hand. This stunning piece of readable art shows Bringhurst's love for the craft of design, typography and writing, and his mastery of these subject, a result of his life-long devotion to them. I am not a professional typographer, but I enjoyed glancing at, reading and appreciating every page of this book.
Marton Trencseni - Fri 22 July 2022 • Tagged with book, management, culture
The Culture Map by Erin Meyer is a system of 8 scales which can be used to determine how cultures vary along a spectrum. The scales can be used to analyse one culture relative to another and decode how culture influences your international collaborations. I find the considerations in the book helpful irrespective of cultural background; the 8 scales can be applied to individuals as well, irrespective of where they are from.
Marton Trencseni - Sun 10 July 2022 • Tagged with amazon, book, management, writing
Amazon established a set of principles and mechanisms, enabling the company to grow from a single founder to several hundred thousand employees while remaining stubbornly true to its mission of obsessing over customers to create long-term shareholder value.
