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How To Throw a DIY Show in a Chicago Park
5 August 2021
A guide to getting your friends together for an outdoor concert in the Midwest's best park district.
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music chicago
Udacity Deep Learning Nanodegree: A Review
12 November 2019
A critical take on Udacity's Deep Learning MOOC.
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ml ai deep learning udacity
Paper Review: Mueller and Smola on Schema Matching with Deep Embeddings
29 September 2019
A recap of Jonas Mueller and Alex Smola's paper using learned embeddings to match columns across datasets.
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ml ai schema matching
A Functional API For Feedforward Neural Nets in PyTorch
2 September 2019
What would training feedforward neural networks in PyTorch look like if the library were committed to functional programming?
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python pytorch ml ai
Against hyperparameter tuning
20 August 2019
Computers should have to figure out hyperparameters, not engineers. AutoML gets this right.
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ml ai hyperparameters
Four Dealbreakers in Netlify Identity
1 May 2019
Netlify Identity could revolutionize the way I deploy medium-size apps, but for now, it comes up short.
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netlify jamstack serverless
Transactional Testing with Pytest and Flask-SQLAlchemy
18 July 2018
Announcing a new pytest plugin for isolating tests in highly stateful Flask-SQLAlchemy apps.
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python pytest testing
Transaction Types in Django Tests
30 January 2018
Django provides two classes for running tests in transactions: TestCase and TransactionTestCase. What's the difference?
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testing transactions django
It's Encodings All the Way Down
12 December 2017
Encodings define representational systems for communicating abstractions. That's why they let you do magical things, like use a haiku, or a T-Shirt, to decrypt DVDs.
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abstraction and implementation encodings symbols