Category: Python
Posts about Python programming language and related matters
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 recognize when it's more important to optimize for readability, maintainab... Read More
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, testing, and yes, strugglin... Read More
Catching up
2018 is looking busy, but there's still a lot left from 2017 that I didn't write about or wrap up.... Read More
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 that you have to declare "placeholders" (v... Read More
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 does?" So, with a couple of weeks left until the next projec... Read More
PyData Socal: Explaining Black Box ML Predictions
Tonight I joined the first Southern California PyData meetup. It featured two speakers discussing how to better understand the predictions made by machine-learning models, and why it might be importan... Read More