Ben Frederickson

I'm currently working at Nvidia, where I'm focused on GPU powered recommender systems as part of the Nvidia Merlin project. Before working at Nvidia, I was at Amazon, Flipboard, and Zite.

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GitHub Won’t Help You with Hiring

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One of the things I'm working on right now is a project that's aggregating data found in developers GitHub profiles. Since there are a couple of problems with using GitHub profiles as a data source like this, I wanted to first list out some of the issues I have with trying to assess developers by looking only at their…