Ben Fredericksonflipped into Data DrivenPyTorch The State of Machine Learning Frameworks in 2019thegradient.pub - Horace He Since deep learning regained prominence in 2012, many machine learning frameworks have clamored to become the new favorite among researchers and …
Ben Fredericksonflipped into ProgrammingPython Programming Profiling Native Python Extensionsbenfrederickson.com - Ben Frederickson One of the cool new features in py-spy is the ability to profile native Python extensions written in languages like C, C++ or Cython. Almost all other …
Ben Fredericksonflipped into Data DrivenIcon version of the Flipboard logoAre We Really Making Much Progress? A Worrying Analysis of Recent Neural Recommendation Approaches. (arXiv:1907.06902v1arxiv.org - Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema, Paolo Cremonesi, Dietmar Jannach Deep learning techniques have become the method of choice for researchers working on algorithmic aspects of recommender systems. With the strongly …
Ben Fredericksonflipped into Data Driven Simulating A/B tests offline with counterfactual inferenceabhadury.com While developing machine learning (ML) algorithms in production environments, we usually optimize a function or a loss that has nothing to do with …
Ben Fredericksonflipped into Programming Paper: Parsing Gigabytes of JSON per Secondbranchfree.org - by geofflangdale Daniel Lemire and I have spent some time this year working on a fast JSON parser. You can read about it in paper form at arXiv here and the repo is …
Ben Fredericksonflipped into ProgrammingIcon version of the Flipboard logo Retrieving function arguments while unwinding the stack · Nikhil's blognikhilism.com Ironically, the most common setup on production systems - x86-64 in release mode - is also the trickiest. I think I can say with reasonable certainty …
Ben Fredericksonflipped into Data Driven A few Recommendations for a Data Scientist who wants to get started in Recommender Systemsbbvadata.com As a Data Scientist, you are expected to be able to build all sort of data products, that may involve simple-yet highly valuable business trends …
Ben Fredericksonflipped into ProgrammingIcon version of the Flipboard logo What I've Learned About Optimizing Pythongregoryszorc.com - Gregory Szorc I've used Python more than any other programming language in the past 4-5 years. Python is the lingua franca for Firefox's build, test, and CI …
Ben Fredericksonflipped into Programming What happens when packages go bad?jakearchibald.com I built spritecow.com back in 2011, and I no longer actively maintain it. A few months ago, a user berated me for using a crypto currency miner on …
Ben Fredericksonflipped into Data Driven The deepest problem with deep learningmedium.com - Gary Marcus Some reflections on an accidental Twitterstorm, the future of AI and deep learning, and what happens when you confuse a schoolbus with a snow plow. On …
Ben Fredericksonflipped into Programming Introducing Chartify: Easier chart creation in Python for data scientistsspotify.com - Chris Halpert Why we built a new open source Python data visualization library.Have you ever been frustrated with the complicated experience of making charts in …
Ben Fredericksonflipped into Programming Inside cpyext: Why emulating CPython C API is so Hardmorepypy.blogspot.com - Antonio Cuni cpyext is PyPy's subsystem which provides a compatibility layer to compile and run CPython C extensions inside PyPy. Often people ask why a …
Ben Fredericksonflipped into Programming New Python app profiler uses Rust for speed and safetyinfoworld.com - Serdar Yegulalp A new sampling profiler tool for Python developers, Py-Spy, gathers statistics about running Python programs without needing to instrument the code …
Ben Fredericksonflipped into Programming An awesome new Python profiler: py-spy!jvns.ca The other day I learned that Ben Frederickson has written an awesome new Python profiler called py-spy!It takes a similar approach to profiling as …
Ben Fredericksonflipped into Programming py-spy: Sampling profiler for Python programsgithub.com - benfred py-spy is a sampling profiler for Python programs. It lets you visualize what your Python program is spending time on without restarting the program …
Ben Fredericksonflipped into CanCon Trump lies. That makes negotiating NAFTA impossible: Neil Macdonaldcbc.ca - Neil Macdonald It's almost sad watching good journalists trying to report on this sewage backup of a negotiation in Washington. Because we are trained to think …
Ben Fredericksonflipped into Data Driven NLP's ImageNet moment has arrivedthegradient.pub - Sebastian Ruder Big changes are underway in the world of Natural Language Processing (NLP).The long reign of word vectors as NLP’s core representation technique has …
Ben Fredericksonflipped into CanCon Are Vancouver's sky-high rents finally falling?cbc.ca - Mike Laanela First it was real estate sales numbers dropping. Then it was the prices. Now signs are emerging that Vancouver's sky-high rents could be trending …
Ben Fredericksonflipped into Data Driven AdamW and Super-convergence is now the fastest way to train neural netsfast.ai Written: 02 Jul 2018 by Sylvain Gugger and Jeremy Howard Note from Jeremy: Welcome to fast.ai’s first scholar-in-residence, Sylvain Gugger. What better …
Ben Fredericksonflipped into Programming Writing Python Extensions In Rust Using PyO3benfrederickson.com I've been writing some code in Rust recently, and I thought it would be cool if I could take some of this Rust code and provide it as a native …
Ben Fredericksonflipped into Programming Fibonacci Hashing: The Optimization that the World Forgot (or: a Better Alternative to Integer Modulo)probablydance.com - Malte Skarupke I recently posted a blog post about a new hash table, and whenever I do something like that, I learn at least one new thing from my comments. In my …
Ben Fredericksonflipped into Data Driven Visualizing Matrix Factorization Using Self-Organizing Mapszillow.com One of the core methods used within Zillow’s home recommendation engine is collaborative filtering. There are several ways collaborative filtering …
Ben Fredericksonflipped into Programming Go code refactoring : the 23x performance huntmedium.com - Val Deleplace The program basically reads an input file, and parses each line to populate an object in memory. The author not only published the source on Github, …
Ben Fredericksonflipped into CanCon In Vancouver, a Housing Frenzy That Even Owners Want to EndThe New York Times - By CONOR DOUGHERTYVANCOUVER, British Columbia — Between multimillion-dollar tear-downs, blocks full of backyard cottages and towering condominiums that are sold and resold several times before they are even built, there
Ben Fredericksonflipped into CanConCanada Canada’s Dirty $20-Billion Pipeline Bailoutthetyee.ca - Andrew Nikiforuk Trans Mountain existing assets valued at $550 million in 2007. Finance Minister Bill Morneau has proposed sacrificing Canadian taxpayers to bail out …
Ben Fredericksonflipped into ProgrammingIcon version of the Flipboard logo Tim Rocktäschelrockt.github.io When talking to colleagues I realized that not everyone knows about einsum, my favorite function for developing deep learning models. This post is …
Ben Fredericksonflipped into ProgrammingIcon version of the Flipboard logo Notes on structured concurrency, or: Go statement considered harmful — njs blogvorpus.org - Posted by Nathaniel J. Smith Every concurrency API needs a way to run code concurrently. Here's some examples of what that looks like using different APIs: There are lots of …
Ben Fredericksonflipped into Programming Where Do The World's Software Developers Live?benfrederickson.com I've been digging into GitHub data recently, and I thought it would be fun to use that data to figure out exactly where the world's software …
Ben Fredericksonflipped into Stranger than FictionScience Europe Was Once Obsessed With Fake Dilapidated BuildingsThe Atlantic - Paul CooperDecadence, awe, and jealousy inspired a strange 18th-century architectural trend. If you walk through Belvedere House Gardens and Park in Westmeath, Ireland, a dramatic sight rises through the trees: enormous,
Ben Fredericksonflipped into Programming Distributed architecture concepts I learned while building a large payments systempragmaticengineer.com - Gergely Orosz In this post, I am summarizing some of the concepts that I have found essential to learn and apply when building a large scale, highly available and …
Ben FredericksonLibya This May Be the Dumbest Thing Ever Transmitted From the White HouseEsquire - By Jack Holmes
Ben FredericksonEngineering Celebrating the Accomplishments of Our 2019 Engineering InternsEngineering Blog - Anna Jensen
Ben Frederickson What’s Going On With All Those House GOP Retirements?FiveThirtyEight - A FiveThirtyEight Chat
Ben FredericksonIcon version of the Flipboard logoAre We Really Making Much Progress? A Worrying Analysis of Recent Neural Recommendation Approaches. (arXiv:1907.06902v1arxiv.org - Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema, Paolo Cremonesi, Dietmar Jannach
Ben Frederickson ‘I would have preferred not to have been ejected like an Austin Powers villain’POLITICO - By DANIEL LIPPMAN and ANDREW RESTUCCIA
Ben Frederickson Introducing AresDB: Uber’s GPU-Powered Open Source, Real-time Analytics Engineuber.com - Jian Shen
Ben Frederickson That brand new Tory plan for Brexit? Here’s why it’s dead in the waterThe Guardian - David Henig
Ben Frederickson A few Recommendations for a Data Scientist who wants to get started in Recommender Systemsbbvadata.com - www.bbvadata.com
Ben FredericksonIcon version of the Flipboard logo The Ultrarich's dirty secret: not paying taxeswesmckinney.com
Ben Frederickson Sample of Metro Vancouver assessments shows falling values among the priciest homesvancouversun.com - Derrick Penner
Ben Frederickson S&P 500 drops more than 2% to new low for 2018, Dow dives 500 pointsCNBC - Thomas Franck
Ben Frederickson Microsoft releases Hummingbird, a personalized news app powered by AIandroidpolice.com - Rita El Khoury
Ben Frederickson Canada Has Achieved a Housing Soft Landing, Biggest Builder SaysBloomberg - Natalie Wong
Ben Frederickson Ozone layer finally healing after damage caused by aerosols, UN saysThe Guardian - Fiona Harvey Environment correspondent
Ben Frederickson The Brett Kavanaugh travesty will breed a formidable backlashThe Guardian - Jill Abramson
Ben Frederickson Inside cpyext: Why emulating CPython C API is so Hardmorepypy.blogspot.com - Antonio Cuni
Ben Frederickson New Py-Spy Python app profiler uses Rust for speed and safetyinfoworld.com - Serdar Yegulalp is a senior writer at InfoWorld, focused on machine learning, containerization, devops, the Python ecosystem, and periodic reviews.
Ben Frederickson Trump lies. That makes negotiating NAFTA impossible: Neil Macdonaldcbc.ca - Neil Macdonald
