Back from ODSC
Just back from ODSC, which is my first major business travel since the somewhat abortive New Zealand trip....
Christchurch, Canterbury Tech Summit, etc.
That makes three people I respect who have recommended the Denver area recently. Not really what I came to Christchurch to find out about myself,...
New Zealand Again? Yes.
Technology and Project Management are universal languages and themes, but they express themselves differently in different environments, different economies and different cultures. Those different expressions...
Don’t believe the client
You have to disbelieve the client. When a mid-sized client tells you "this is the solution, when can we do it?" it's not the same...
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...
It’s not just a problem “over there.”
The American Red Cross is running computers with an obsolete and unsupported operating system, and using them to collect HIPAA protected personal health and other...
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...