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

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

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

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