{"id":1292,"date":"2014-10-14T21:17:48","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T21:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2014-10-14T21:17:48","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T21:17:48","slug":"grace-hopper-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/?p=1292","title":{"rendered":"Grace Hopper 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/wpid-img_20141009_084430nopm_1.jpg.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/wpid-img_20141009_084430nopm_1.jpg-500x500.jpeg\" alt=\"Ribbons!\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1290\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/wpid-img_20141009_084430nopm_1.jpg-500x500.jpeg 500w, http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/wpid-img_20141009_084430nopm_1.jpg-150x150.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/wpid-img_20141009_084430nopm_1.jpg-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/wpid-img_20141009_084430nopm_1.jpg-624x624.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week I attended the <a href=\"http:\/\/gracehopper.org\/\">Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing<\/a> with a couple other women from Sift. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/wpid-img_20141009_101006941_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/wpid-img_20141009_101006941_1-500x500.jpg\" alt=\"Index Slide\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1291\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/wpid-img_20141009_101006941_1-500x500.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/wpid-img_20141009_101006941_1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/wpid-img_20141009_101006941_1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/wpid-img_20141009_101006941_1-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>As part of this, I also gave a talk as part of the Data Sciences track about how Sift uses machine learning to fight fraud. I focused on how Sift works and many of the things we&#8217;ve learned in the three years we&#8217;ve been doing this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/wpid-img_20141009_074830162_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/wpid-img_20141009_074830162_1-500x281.jpg\" alt=\"GHC room\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1293\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/wpid-img_20141009_074830162_1-500x281.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/wpid-img_20141009_074830162_1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/wpid-img_20141009_074830162_1-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The room I presented in could seat 1080 attendees. I know because I counted. At 7:45am. (I had nothing to do until my talk which was at 10:15am&#8230; Why not count chairs so you can psyche yourself out more?!)<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t plan on turning this into a blog of deep thoughts, but GHC was amazing, and speaking was a blast. Though I was really nervous beforehand that I&#8217;d get questions I couldn&#8217;t answer, it turned that only one came up and my awesome co-worker saved me. <\/p>\n<p>I hope I can make it next year! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I attended the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing with a couple other women from Sift. As part of this, I also gave a talk as part of the Data Sciences track about how Sift uses machine learning to fight fraud. 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