Lightning talks, and not…
Lightning talks seem scary, but are in fact one of the best ways to introduce yourself to public speaking in general. Once you can do...
AWS, AWS, and More AWS
It's been a summer of AWS for me....
Here’s some more bad dataviz
So, each of those numbers is approximatly 1/3 of the total, or so the slices of the pie would suggest?...
SCaLE 16x Open Data Presentation: not really happy
I got good feedback on the content if not the delivery, and some additional feedback about how to improve. So I think I'll rework it...
Promo for my SCaLE 16x talk
A promo video for my SCaLE 16x talk. This one features Mr. Spock and Flash the Linux Cat. As noted in my comments, pretty much...
Back from ODSC
Just back from ODSC, which is my first major business travel since the somewhat abortive New Zealand trip....
My minimal TensorFlow / CUDA environment setup
I've been documenting my setups more carefully. Here's what I got for a minimal setup of a TensorFlow environment that works both for scripts and...
Udacity Deep Learning Nanodegree – Part II
I left last week's PyData Meetup with more questions than answers. Questions like "why does that neural net I just wrote perform the way it...
Udacity Deep Learning Nanodegree – Part I
There is little here that I could not learn on my own. But I find that it's useful to learn along with others, and the...