1 July 2009 - JamieZawinskiBoost

Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 2009 : 1 July 2009

We have AdaBoost and BrownBoost. I guess it’s still a long time before we’ll get JamieZawinskiBoost.

clue:

Yes, a technical joke about the state of the art in machine learning algorithms with obscure references to computer science history! Remember, you heard it here first.

I narrowly chose Jamie Zawinski over Phil Zimmerman as the most famous programmer whose name starts with Z.

give me a clue so sweet and true