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1. Feature Learning

• Learning Feature Representations with K-means by Adam Coates and Andrew Y. Ng
• The devil is in the details: an evaluation of recent feature encoding methods by Chatfield et. al.
• Emergence of Object-Selective Features in Unsupervised Feature Learning by Coates, Ng
• Scaling Learning Algorithms towards AI Benjio & LeCun
• A Theory of Feature Learning by Brendan van Rooyen, Robert C. Williamson

2. Deep Learning

• Dropout: A Simple Way to Prevent Neural Networks from Overfitting by Nitish Srivastava, Geoffrey Hinton, Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever and Ruslan Salakhutdinov
• [Understanding

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vasanthk

System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

Basic Steps

1. Clarify and agree on the scope of the system

• User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
  • Who is going to use it?
  • How are they going to use it?

ptarjan

Scaling your API with rate limiters

The following are examples of the four types rate limiters discussed in the accompanying blog post. In the examples below I've used pseudocode-like Ruby, so if you're unfamiliar with Ruby you should be able to easily translate this approach to other languages. Complete examples in Ruby are also provided later in this gist.

In most cases you'll want all these examples to be classes, but I've used simple functions here to keep the code samples brief.

Request rate limiter

This uses a basic token bucket algorithm and relies on the fact that Redis scripts execute atomically. No other operations can run between fetching the count and writing the new count.

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