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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 read
AI
,
Cost Savings
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 read
Cool Stuff
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 read
Data Science
,
Data Visualization
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 read
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 read
AI
The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's Native Image Hosting
Before Reddit added native image hosting, Imgur accounted for 15% of all submissions to Reddit. Now it’s below 9%.
June 20, 2017
5 min read
Data Science
Advantages of Using R Notebooks For Data Analysis Instead of Jupyter Notebooks
The relatively new R Notebooks improve the workflows of common data analysis in ways Jupyter Notebooks can’t.
June 6, 2017
8 min read
Data Science
Leaving Apple Inc.
I have made the personal decision to leave my job at Apple to further my personal growth and technical skills.
May 4, 2017
5 min read
Personal
Pretrained Character Embeddings for Deep Learning and Automatic Text Generation
Keras + TensorFlow + Pretrained character embeddings makes text generation a breeze.
April 4, 2017
15 min read
Data Science
Predicting And Mapping Arrest Types in San Francisco with LightGBM, R, ggplot2
Given that a SF police arrest occurs at a specified time and place, what is the reason for that arrest?
February 8, 2017
10 min read
Data Science
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