4 important metrics in code profiling — In the last month, I had the great privilege of not only moving to my favorite city in the world, Paris, but also joining my dream company as a Senior software engineer. They said first impression is important, and there is very little that can be improved about my first…

Why reducing redux size is worth it — A couple years ago, I was a founding member of Slack’s frontend performance team. The goal was to understand what impacts Slack’s performance on the frontend. One metric the company wanted to understand is the timing it takes to switch from one channel to another — i.e. …

How to nail DFS algorithm interviews with both iteration and recursion — When it comes to coding, I like to find patterns. Patterns reveal first principles, and approaching any question from first principle thinking leads to better clarity. Here are some first principles that often come up during coding interviews. Recursion can be converted to iteration (and vice versa). Recursion is like…

Simple rules to what ‘this’ is in Javascript functions — this is complicated. this refers to the context inside a function, but the context is different depending on how the function is declared. We’re going to look at the gazillion ways of writing a Javascript function, and what the value of this is inside. Note, you can find a Github…

Why I use the word “create” in my profile header image — I talked to a career coach last year, and showed her my LinkedIn profile. One feedback she gave me was “the word ‘create’ reads more design than engineering.” She suggested I change my cover photo because it makes a weaker impression for being an engineer.

Understanding the math and implementation of Word2Vec — Man is to king as woman is to what? How can you train a machine learning algorithm to correctly predict the right answer, “queen”? In this article, I’m going to talk about a natural language processing model — Word2Vec —that can be used to make such predictions. In the Word2Vec…

What makes a GML GML? — Generalized linear models are a group of models with some common attributes. These common attributes are: The distribution of the response variable (i.e. the label), given an input x, is a member of the exponential family of distributions. The natural parameter of the exponential family distribution is a linear combination…