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mrborgen

1,300 karma · joined September 25, 2013

Co-founder of Scrimba.com

https://twitter.com/perborgen https://medium.com/@perborgen

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mrborgen··on Machine Learning in a Year
Sure, I asked at Reddit/r/machinelearning:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/4kcrqp/loo...

A couple of people contacted me, and the first one I gave a shot was actually a perfect fit. Maybe I was a bit lucky right there.

mrborgen··on Machine Learning in a Year
Hey, I'm the author of this article. Happy to answer questions if anybody have any.
mrborgen··on Ask HN: Any unfinished side projects to give away?
Yes, Datasets.co. A site for sharing/indexing machine learning datasets.
mrborgen··on Ask HN: What are some examples of successful companies rejected by YC?
I actually asked this a few months ago. Here is the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11229700
mrborgen··on Boosting Sales with Machine Learning
Your assumption is right, in terms of business cost, we'd rather see a false positive than a false negative.

I don't think the scikit learn algorithm differentiates between the two types of errors, in terms of cost.

Though it seems to give less false negatives than false positives overall, when testing on new datasets.

I'll put in the f1 score in the article when I have time.

mrborgen··on Boosting Sales with Machine Learning
2000 samples is what we needed to get going yes. We're also noticing variable accuracy on different real world dataset. Meaning the algorithm is biased towards our current dataset.

Getting more data is one of our top priorities going forward with this project.

mrborgen··on Boosting Sales with Machine Learning
Author of article here. Happy to answer questions if anybody have any.
mrborgen··on Show HN: EverActiv, an ML personal trainer for iPhone
Not available in my App Store (Norwegian). Why not make it international?
mrborgen··on Ask HN: What are some good React tutorials?
Sorry for the self promotion, but I wrote a few React tutorials with someone like you in mind. They're only covering the basics of React, coding directly in an html file, so they don't involve getting up and running with Node+React. But I think that should be tackled after you know the basics of React.

Building Your First React App: https://medium.com/learning-new-stuff/building-your-first-re...

Building Your Second React App: https://medium.com/learning-new-stuff/building-your-second-r...

React.JS in 8 minutes: https://medium.com/learning-new-stuff/learn-react-js-in-7-mi...

Other than that, I always recommend the official tutorial: https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/tutorial.html

... and Egghead.io's videos: https://egghead.io/series/react-fundamentals

mrborgen··on Apply HN – Seedu – Equity Financing for Education
I like this idea. If properly executed, it'll give people a whole new type of liquidity. I see the App Academy's model (free bootcamp, but takes recruitment fee from companies who hire their graduates) as a very early prototype for this kind of model.
mrborgen··on Show HN: Datasets.co – Share and discover new machine learning datasets
Awesome list, thanks!
mrborgen··on Show HN: Datasets.co – Share and discover new machine learning datasets
It's avtually 19, I just didn't understand all of them to be able to write proper descriptions.
mrborgen··on Show HN: Datasets.co – Share and discover new machine learning datasets
Hey, on datasets added from now on, this'll be an option. Check it out in action here (displayed under the image).

http://www.datasets.co/dataset/All-UFC-Fights

Was that what you were thinking?

mrborgen··on Show HN: Datasets.co – Share and discover new machine learning datasets
Was a bit quick comment last time. Yes, having the amount of observations is a very natural feature to add. Shiuld be fairly simple as well, so it'll be added soon!
mrborgen··on Show HN: Datasets.co – Share and discover new machine learning datasets
Hey all!I built this site because I think it should be easier and more fun to discover new datasets. I'd love hear your thoughts, suggestions and critisism!
mrborgen··on Show HN: Datasets.co – Share and discover new machine learning datasets
Thanks! Would you also be interested in having a 'data preview' feature, where you'd see a tiny part of the data in the browser?
mrborgen··on Show HN: Datasets.co – Share and discover new machine learning datasets
Thanks for the input! The variables are already described, if it was the features you were thinking about?
mrborgen··on Show HN: Podcat – Imdb for podcasts
Great! The search on Apple's own app is just horrible. I'm gonna use this one for sure. Well done!
mrborgen··on Lesson Learned Running a Side Project for One Month
We are very much considering opening up the chat logs!
mrborgen··on Lesson Learned Running a Side Project for One Month
Thanks, we're hoping to do something in the same lines. However, it's more tricky when it's a chat, as the answer isn't as easy to present to the whole community and gain more karma from.

Any thoughts on that?

mrborgen··on Lesson Learned Running a Side Project for One Month
Thanks!
mrborgen··on Show HN: Start a pair programming session over WebRTC by just sharing a link
Hey, awesome service! I'd be interested in using this at my site (BugRex.com). We're a chat based help line for developers in the need for help. Sharing code is an issue we haven't solved properly yet. Let me know if you want to chat.
mrborgen··on Ask HN: Which successful startups were rejected by YC?
Not very strict demands. If it's still growing and does exciting stuff, I'm interested in hearing about it. (Though that probably is an insane amount of companies)
mrborgen··on Lessons Learned Launching a Side Project in 48 Hours
Interesting idea regarding scheduling. That would require a bit strickter rules for our experts though. As for now, one of the benefitd the experts like is that it's 100 percent flexible. You answer chats only when your'e interested.

Would love to hear about those human decision theories, got links?

mrborgen··on Lessons Learned Launching a Side Project in 48 Hours
That remains to be seen! Depends on the growth, definitely.
mrborgen··on Lessons Learned Launching a Side Project in 48 Hours
Thanks for your input! The are a ton of challenges ahead, and scaling experts is one of them. But as for now, getting demand is harder than supply. Although the demand is surely affected by the quality of the experts.
mrborgen··on Lessons Learned Launching a Side Project in 48 Hours
Great input!

However, it's quite hard to get that kind of product off the ground. Easier to start with a niche and work our way out to broader subjects.

We actually started with ReactHelp.com, then went wider to HTML,CSS and JS. And now, we have Ruby, Python & Java experts as well, so it's going in the direction of more subjects.

mrborgen··on Lessons Learned Launching a Side Project in 48 Hours
Hey, author of the article here. Let me know if you have any comments.
mrborgen··on BugRex: Fix HTML, CSS and JavaScript Bugs with Live Chat
Thanks, it's now fixed!
mrborgen··on BugRex: Fix HTML, CSS and JavaScript Bugs with Live Chat
Hey, we have four.
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