Broadly vs. Locally-useful skills
Early on, I programmed on mainframes in COBOL... I'm sure I could do it again. But I'd be tossing away some highly valuable, broadly-applicable and...
Wrapping up 2018, a year of big changes
On January 16th I will depart for Seattle, where I will be working for Amazon Web Services starting on the 21st....
To Optimize, or Not?
You should be forced to write efficient code and know how to do it in situations where it matters. You should also be able to...
Low-level understanding matters
If you haven't figured out how to get the most out of what you already have, don't ask me for more RAM/disk/CPU or anything else....
The horrors of open source!
It's possible to simplify the "normal" things for normal users while still providing source code and repositories that allow us strange creatures to continue experimenting,...
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...
National Transportation Data Challenge @ JupyterCon
I was asked to join the team running the National Transportation Data Challenge, not as a data scientist, but as a project manager to help...
Udacity Deep Learning Nanodegree — Part 3
I found TensorFlow initially confusing but then quite comfortable. It's odd how after programming in a language like Python for a while, it becomes confusing...
Fantastic Use of Data
A bottom-up study of the potential economic impact of climate change shows how a large-scale data analysis should be done...
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...