By popular demand, here is my post on mixup, a new data augmentation scheme that was shown to improve generalization and stabilize GAN performance.

gsutil is Google Storage CLI tool. Equivalent to aws s3 but for the Google Cloud Platform, it allows you to access Google Cloud Storage from the command line. Beyond moving files and managing buckets, gsutil is a powerful file management (rsync) and file publication tool (signed urls).

The term ‘self-organizing map’ might conjure up a militaristic image of data points marching towards their contingents on a map, which is a rather apt analogy of how the algorithm actually works.

In this tutorial, you will learn step-by-step how to implement a poker bot in Python.

** Wed 01 November 2017

In this post, I want to highlight two recent complementary results on transfer learning applied to audio — one related to music, another related to speech.

Cloudera Data Science Workbench (CDSW) provides data science teams with a self-service platform for quickly developing machine learning workloads in their preferred language, with secure access to enterprise data and simple provisioning of compute. Individuals can request schedulable resources (e.g. compute, memory, GPUs) on a shared cluster that is managed centrally.

In this post we are going to develop a movie recommender java application using Collaborative Filtering Algorithm.  Full code and working application are provided together with results.Generally no deep knowledge on the field is required and topics are kept as high level as possible.

This was a pretty busy week with a lot going on, but I finally seem to be settling into my new role!