Although I’ve recently decided to take a break from working on OSS for a little while, I’m still as excited as ever about Julia as a language.

Documenting the steps how to setup Theano to run on GPU on Ubuntu 14.04 so I can refer to this in the future. With this successfully installed, you can run Keras, convnet, Theano, etc properly.

As data scientists, we are aware that bias exists in the world. We read up on stories about how cognitive biases can affect decision-making. We know that, for instance, a resume with a white-sounding name will receive a different response than the same resume with a black-sounding name, and that writers of performance reviews use different language to describe contributions by women and men in the workplace. We read stories in the news about ageism in healthcare and racism in mortgage lending.

This year’s National League Cy Young race was pretty much a toss-up, with each of Jake Arrieta, Zack Greinke, and Clayton Kershaw putting up numbers we haven’t seen in a decade or more.

It’s often not so hard.

When you get up at 2:30 in the morning to catch a train to attend a workshop I think it’s inevitable you question yourself as to what on earth it is you’re up to.

Depending on where you’ve lived you’re probably using at least one of  WhatsApp, WeChat, LINE, or Kakaotalk. At first glance, these apps look like communication tools. They allow you talk to your friends, family, coworkers and business partners. Sometimes all at once. But messenger apps are just the beginning of a much larger trend. Pretty soon, you’ll use such apps not to talk to your friends, but to talk to machines. Chat applications will become a new interface used to consume information and services. In fact, many companies have started to move into this direction. We’ll get to that later, but bear with me for a little while.