The Book of Jones

Cooking, travel, and techno-babble

About Me

I'm a recent Berkeley grad working at Yelp. In the computer world I'm most excited by machine learning and natural language processing (especially of the bayesian and unsupervised variety), low-level performance tricks, and cool hacks.
In the real world, I love to cook and travel.
I'm happily employed, but here's my resume, just in case.

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    Research Blog: From Words to Concepts and Back: Dictionaries for Linking Text, Entities and Ideas

    Research Blog: From Words to Concepts and Back: Dictionaries for Linking Text, Entities and Ideas

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    This is incredibly cool - CC-Attribution licensed data about anchor-text / wikipedia page links. http://t.co/TY1btfLe

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    Weird Stuff / Do It Yourself Fish Taxidermy

    Weird Stuff / Do It Yourself Fish Taxidermy

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    Do It Yourself Fish Taxidermy http://t.co/0VIWNhVs

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    RFC 2616: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1

    RFC 2616: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1

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    Pretty-RFC is probably going to improve my life - http://t.co/TQyoxdx2

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    Google's new knowledge graph feature is way more exciting than any of the +1 crap.

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    Get It Now with Postmates

    Get It Now with Postmates

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    I just ordered from Gordo Taqueria - 9th Ave & Irving with @GetItNow from Postmates. http://t.co/XajXy0yK

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    Riding Caltrain makes me want to become a Dodger's fan.

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    Daring Fireball: JavaScript Bookmarklet Builder

    Daring Fireball: JavaScript Bookmarklet Builder

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    How have I never seen this page before? http://t.co/q8NhPRng

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    Alternate solution: the whole world should speak english and use unix timestamps for time.

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    I love python, but the unicode & timezone support is… not great.

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    Detecting Malicious URLs

    Detecting Malicious URLs

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    Just logged in to duolingo for the first time. Really, really slick.

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    Although its a little awkward I can't like or comment on other items, too (reviews, bookmarks etc)

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    I'm honest-to-god really excited about yelp launching check-in likes and comments.

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    A dude on Caltrain angrily called me a "train talker," as I was sitting near some coworkers. He moved seats. Is this a thing?

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    Apache Kafka

    Apache Kafka

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    Kafka has a really great coding style guide: http://t.co/ucuMhktj

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    (503) http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001FX8512/

    (503) http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001FX8512/

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    I love the +1 for every google search result link. Want to bet "fuckload of social media buttons" is a signal in their own web spam system?

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    kafka

    basic kafka consumer

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    RE the heartland ads: They should be hijacked to say: "Even the unabomber isn't crazy enough to not believe in global warming!"