Despite spending a bunch of my free time learning about and playing with various aspects of AI, the most interesting application lately has been in my day job. I was trying to create a kubernetes pod that I could use in a Jenkins pipeline to build do...
I started this blog with the intention of documenting the things that I was working on during the year I took off of work to learn new things. My hope was that I would produce artifacts in the form of completed projects and blog posts describing them...
I have started playing with Chat-GPT. Who hasn't. I made good use of it to practice my French, and I completely misused it for a coding problem. Here was my experience. Language practice My first use case benefits from its strengths, and is not harme...
Certifications can be really useful for learning. When a certification is well designed, a knowledgeable organization is telling you what they consider to be important, and they are validating your learning. There is some debate whether a certificati...
tl;dr - learn Python, numpy, pandas, scikit-learn, tensorflow. Get a little familiarity with python, then take Andrew Ng's Machine Learning specialization on Coursera. If you are a programmer that wants to learn about machine learning it can be diffi...
I was working on a tabular dataset problem on Kaggle, and I wrote a function to do some preprocessing. The function removed columns that had a correlation above a threshold. I wanted to experiment with different thresholds, and rather than tune it by...
What is ROC Read this as a jupyter notebookThe excellent book "Hands on Machine Learning" explains the ROC curve more thoroughly than I have seen before, but still I don't think I could articulate where the line actually comes from. I can call the fu...
I am working on the back end API that is going to be consumed by a mobile app. The backend logic is going to change over the next few iterations, but I expect the API to be stable. I wanted to deploy the API so that the mobile developer could start c...
"What are we doing?" -- Taylor Twellman, about something completely different. Hi, welcome to my blog. I have thought about writing again for a while, but I tend to get really focused on one thing for a period of time, and then I will get hyper-focu...