Benchmarking Modern GPUs for Maximum Cloud Cost Efficiency in Deep Learning

A 36% price cut to GPU instances, in addition to the potential new benefits offered by software and GPU updates, however, might be enough to tip the cost-efficiency scales back in favor of GPUs.

November 28, 2017 · 8 min

Making Magic: the GIFening

As it turns out, creating a Twitter bot to tweet Magic card GIFs is easy to implement, but with a few interesting caveats.

November 7, 2017 · 9 min

How to Make High Quality Data Visualizations for Websites With R and ggplot2

In general, it takes little additional effort to make something unique with ggplot2, and the effort is well worth it.

August 14, 2017 · 9 min

Benchmarking TensorFlow on Cloud CPUs: Cheaper Deep Learning than Cloud GPUs

Using CPUs instead of GPUs for deep learning training in the cloud is cheaper because of the massive cost differential afforded by preemptible instances.

July 5, 2017 · 7 min

Predicting the Success of a Reddit Submission with Deep Learning and Keras

Thanks to Keras, performing deep learning on a very large number of Reddit submissions is actually pretty easy. Performing it well is a different story.

June 26, 2017 · 9 min