Ben Fredericksonflipped into CanCon Inside Vancouver City Hall’s Housing Wars (in News) thetyee.ca - Doug Ward Voters demanded action on affordability. What they got is so weirdly split we tried to map the mess.
Ben Fredericksonflipped into Programming Which GPU(s) to Get for Deep Learning: My Experience and Advice for Using GPUs in Deep Learning timdettmers.com - Tim Dettmers Deep learning is a field with intense computational requirements, and your choice of GPU will fundamentally determine your deep learning experience. …
Ben Fredericksonflipped into CanCon The Lonely Power Plants That Skirted the Law to Fuel Vancouver’s Thirst for Electricity montecristomagazine.com - Jesse Donaldson Nestled amongst the trees on the eastern shore of Indian Arm are two gothic-looking buildings that have been weathered by more than a century of rain …
Ben Fredericksonflipped into Data Driven AI Research, Replicability and Incentives dennybritz.com More people than ever are working on Deep Learning. Journal and arXiv submissions have increased by ~5x over the past few years. If you consider …
Ben Fredericksonflipped into Data DrivenBuilding Recommender SystemsBy Arnie B.Here is a curated collection of my favourite posts for people starting out in recommender systems and personalization. This was created in preparation for our summer interns in the recommendations team at Flipboard!
Ben Fredericksonflipped into Data Driven A Case For Embeddings In Recommendation Problems abhadury.com Once you have worked on different machine learning problems, most things in the field start to feel very similar. You take your raw input data, map …
Ben Fredericksonflipped into Data Driven An Epidemic of AI Misinformation thegradient.pub - Gary Marcus Maybe every paper abstract should have a mandatory field of what the limitations of the proposed approach are. That way some of the science …
Ben Fredericksonflipped into Programming Buffet lines are terrible, but let's try to improve them using computer simulations erikbern.com My company has a buffet every Friday, and the lines grow to epic proportions when the food arrives. I’ve suspected for years that the “classic” buffet …
Ben Fredericksonflipped into Data Driven The State of Machine Learning Frameworks in 2019 thegradient.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 Programming Profiling Native Python Extensions benfrederickson.com 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 DrivenFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Are We Really Making Much Progress? A Worrying Analysis of Recent Neural Recommendation Approaches arxiv.org - Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema, Paolo Cremonesi, Dietmar Jannach Computer Science > Information Retrieval Abstract: Deep learning techniques have become the method of choice for researchers working on algorithmic …
Ben Fredericksonflipped into Data Driven Simulating A/B tests offline with counterfactual inference abhadury.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 Second branchfree.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 ProgrammingFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Retrieving function arguments while unwinding the stack | Nikhil's blog nikhilism.com Retrieving function arguments while unwinding the stack Posted on Feb 15, 2019 When a debugger, profiler or crash reporter is unwinding the call stack, …
Ben Fredericksonflipped into Data Driven A few Recommendations for a Data Scientist who wants to get started in Recommender Systems - BBVA AI Factory bbvadata.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 ProgrammingFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo What I've Learned About Optimizing Python gregoryszorc.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 learning Medium - Gary Marcus On November 21, I read an interview with Yoshua Bengio in Technology Review that to a suprising degree downplayed recent successes in deep learning, …
Ben Fredericksonflipped into ProgrammingFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Introducing Chartify: Easier chart creation in Python for data scientists spotify.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 Hard morepypy.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 safety infoworld.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 benfred/py-spy github.com - benfred py-spy: Sampling profiler for Python programs py-spy is a sampling profiler for Python programs. It lets you visualize what your Python program is …
Ben Fredericksonflipped into CanConTrump University OPINION | Trump lies. That makes negotiating NAFTA impossible: Opinion | CBC News verified_publisherCBC News - 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 arrived thegradient.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 CanConHousing Are Vancouver's sky-high rents finally dropping? | CBC News verified_publisherCBC News - 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 nets fast.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 PyO3 benfrederickson.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 Maps - Zillow Tech Hub zillow.com One of the core methods used within Zillow’s home recommendation engine is collaborative filtering. There are several ways collaborative filtering …
