Who wins the world?
In a world (W), full of many (x)s, and a definition of winning max(M). Is it good enough to know the meta rules of the game to win?
Posted on 2022-05-15
Transformation functions and the paradox of Utopia
A standard narrative of the utopians can be somewhat formally deduced. Will there be a better world state S(t+1) > S(t) in the future?
Posted on 2022-05-15
A Road to MLOps Mastery - 2022 Edition
One of the many paths to take to gain mastery in the area of MLOps in 2022. Get ready, learn from Google, write a pipeline, research the web, do the Andrew Ng course, and watch conference talks.
Posted on 2022-03-03
Kotlin and Advent of Code 2021
Solving some problems with the Kotlin programming language for the 2021 edition of Advent of Code.
Posted on 2021-12-05
The Ultimate ML Model Trainer
Presenting the ultimate interactive analog Deep Learning model training environment...
Posted on 2021-10-01
The East From Where I Am
My phone had died. I turned left at the end of the platform, and headed west...
Posted on 2021-09-17
The Best Chess Game of 2020
Scott & I have played innumerable chess games this year, but I will of course take this great opportunity to present my first victory against him. It's a great moment.
Posted on 2020-07-03
Only the first day of Advent of Code 2018
I happened to stumble upon the very interesting site, https://adventofcode.com, where there are some challenges posted every day until Christmas. It felt more *adventurous* than LeetCode, CodeForces, SPOJ or CodeChef -- so I took to it.
Posted on 2018-12-09
Creating custom interactive maps on the web
In this post, I will assume that you are familiar with shapefiles. Download and install TileMill for your OS, and create a new project. Next, download shapefile data from your source.
Posted on 2017-05-09
Skills for building a data science product
This article is an opinionated view of essential skills needed to build and engineer a data science product and ship it to production, from scratch. We will take the case study of building a recommendation engine on a massive e-commerce platform for illustration.
Posted on 2017-04-08
Parsing Abstract Syntax Trees (ASTs)
It is possible to do a depth-first traversal of the node by sub-classing `ast.NodeVisitor`. It is also possible to rewrite nodes. Let's look at extracting all function calls from a Python source file.
Posted on 2016-03-07
Understanding JavaScript Callbacks
Prior to understanding what callbacks are, we need to explore functional programming with JavaScript. Every function in JavaScript is actually an object of `Function`. The below example helps illustrate.
Posted on 2016-02-02
SQLAlchemy Tutorial
This is a quick tutorial for getting started with SQLAlchemy Core. SQLAlchemy is the Python SQL toolkit and Object Relational Mapper that gives application developers the full power and flexibility of SQL.
Posted on 2016-01-22