HackNY Doubles Effort To Match Top Tech Students With NYC Startups (techcrunch.com) 9 points by bpeters 15y ago ↗ HN
[–] achompas 15y ago ↗ Does HackNY take data people? I'd imagine so, since bit.ly and Foursquare are both participating. [–] evankorth1 15y ago ↗ Hell yes, we do. [–] achompas 15y ago ↗ Awesome! Really excited this opportunity exists for people with my interests. [–] chrishwiggins 15y ago ↗ absolutely, data++in fact one of last year's fellows did multinomial mixture modeling and boosted alternating decision trees to, as he put it, improve okcupid's "love machine". video available via http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VYdYw4Mth4
[–] evankorth1 15y ago ↗ Hell yes, we do. [–] achompas 15y ago ↗ Awesome! Really excited this opportunity exists for people with my interests.
[–] chrishwiggins 15y ago ↗ absolutely, data++in fact one of last year's fellows did multinomial mixture modeling and boosted alternating decision trees to, as he put it, improve okcupid's "love machine". video available via http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VYdYw4Mth4
[–] TalSafran 15y ago ↗ As someone who did last year's Fellowship program, I couldn't be happier. HackNY is keeping kids off the street - Wall Street.
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[ 7.3 ms ] story [ 20.7 ms ] threadin fact one of last year's fellows did multinomial mixture modeling and boosted alternating decision trees to, as he put it, improve okcupid's "love machine". video available via http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VYdYw4Mth4