Mitch Wyle's Web Log

Tonight we saw "Big Eyes."  We both enjoyed the film.   I really enjoyed the over-saturation, over-the-top special effects, and e...

Daniel Tunkelang from LinkedIn on hiring data scientists   Great talk by Daniel Tunkelang at the Strata conference last month https://...

Tonight we saw "The Admiral: Roaring Currents."  It was a great action movie with awesome special effects.  It is definitely wort...

Manipulating Media Messages   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing   Are there reliable classifiers we can run in-browser?  W...

I enjoyed this film but my wife hated it.  We have a split decision.  If you hate LA Hollywood insider movies you will hate this one 3/5 s...

Tonight we watched "Unbroken."  It was pretty good.  I found it a little formulaic and melodramatic; the characters are 1-dimensi...

I enjoyed this novel and recommend it.  It is very absorbing.  I stayed up very late reading it.  4/5 stars.  The book explores the metaph...

This one is very good, 4/5 stars.  An English teacher in southern Spain is a John Lennon fan and encounters two kids hitchhiking.  Great di...

I finished listening to the audio book version of this great space opera and recommend it.  I am prioritizing the other “Culture” books in...

We watched “The Immigrant” last night and it was not bad but not outstanding.  3/5 stars, barely worth watching.