Hi, I'm Finbarr Timbers. I'm a machine learning researcher currently working to solve intelligence. This is my personal site and has no relationship to any organization I may be professionally affiliated with (disclaimer).

I am currently working mostly on reinforcement learning problems, although I have a wide variety of research interests, including adversarial examples, optimization in the context of machine learning, and representation learning.

Occasionally, I read things that aren't just machine learning papers, and list the books I particularly like here.

You can contact me by email at finbarrtimbers [at] Google's email service.

I turned my academic research into a SaaS app that automatically analysed & deduplicate bug reports. Unfortunately, it was too expensive for me to keep running, but I have the code & can deploy it with a few hours work.

If anyone's interested in using this at their company, I'd love to talk to you.

A system that automatically detects duplicate bug reports.

My role is to provide engineering support and contribute ideas to research projects. Heavy experience with Tensorflow and distributed computing, done mostly in Python. I was the first engineer hired in the Edmonton office.

Used my background in academic research to come up with highly scalable algorithms based on machine learning to solve our clients needs. Solutions were typically based on the state of the art academic literature.