Cake with melted plastic lego pieces, delicious. Generated by Midjourney I recently started a PhD in Computer Science after spending the past 10 years working as a software engineer. One of the biggest shocks to me in this transition (aside…
I recently ported a library I built, tensor-theorem-prover, from being a pure Python library to being a hybrid Python/Rust library using PyO3. Despite my being a beginner with Rust, it resulted in a nearly 20x speedup over the old pure Pyth…
I recently had to set up a workflow where tagging a release on Github would trigger a deploy to production on Netlify. This turned out to be less straightforward than I expected originally, but I think the solution to make this work is func…
A lot of universities use Oracle Grid Engine (aka Sun Grid Engine, or SGE) for high-performance computing. This system lets you submit jobs requesting varying amounts of CPUs, GPUs, and memory to run machine learning (ML) and other compute-…
I’m interested in extracting meaning from text in a form that can be reasoned over by computers, and was thus really excited when I stumbled on Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR). AMR is a really cool idea. It parses sententes into a tre…
A transformer reading a book, generated by pixray-vqgan TLDR; If you want to skip the details of how this works, the end-project is available here: Frame-Semantic-Transformer. A live demo is available as well. If you want to get meaningful
Over the past few weeks I’ve been using Vowpal Wabbit (VW) to develop contextual bandit algorithms in Python. Vowpal Wabbit’s core functionality is excellent and it appears to be the industry standard for working with bandits. However, the
There’s always a trade-off when running A/B tests. Until you’re certain which variant of the test is correct, you can’t make a final decision about which test variant to show. So if variant A is better than variant B, you’re losing all the
I generally love Cloud Run - I use it to host a lot of my side projects and demos that won’t receive a lot of traffic, but that still need a big server to run on. However, I recently ran into a frustrating bug when using pretrained Huggingf…
I’ve always found the idea of word vectors fascinating. Word vectors (also called word embeddings) turn a word into an array of numbers, and makes it possible to do math on words. For instance, you can add and subtract words from each other…
One of the things I miss the most from Rails is the handy scaffold helpers. It made it super easy to generate a new model or controller without needing to manually create all the boilerplate myself. Fortunately, it’s easy to recreate this b…
Refactoring code can be a soothing, cathartic experience, like tidying up your room after it’s gotten a bit too messy. You start moving code around into nicely organized, color-coded boxes. You make everything a bit more standardized, a bit…