January 2021 – Page 3 – Andrew Fairless, Ph.D.

What I Read: Transformer Architecture

By Andrew Fairless on January 21, 2021December 29, 2020

https://blog.exxactcorp.com/a-deep-dive-into-the-transformer-architecture-the-development-of-transformer-models/ Deep LearningA Deep Dive Into the Transformer Architecture – The Development of Transformer ModelsMarketing, July 14, 2020 0 11 min readTransformers for Natural Language Processing “There’s no better timeContinue readingWhat I Read: Transformer Architecture

What I Read: why Switch from Jupyter Notebook to Scripts

By Andrew Fairless on January 20, 2021December 28, 2020

https://towardsdatascience.com/5-reasons-why-you-should-switch-from-jupyter-notebook-to-scripts-cb3535ba9c95 5 Reasons why you should Switch from Jupyter Notebook to ScriptsUsing Scripts Helps me Realize the Drawbacks of Jupyter NotebookKhuyen TranAug 24 “If you have just switched from JupyterContinue readingWhat I Read: why Switch from Jupyter Notebook to Scripts

What I Read: Biden’s Covid-19 Plan Is Maddeningly Obvious

By Andrew Fairless on January 20, 2021January 20, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/18/opinion/biden-covid-19-plan.html OpinionBiden’s Covid-19 Plan Is Maddeningly ObviousYou can’t help but wonder why the Trump administration left so many of these things undone.Ezra KleinJan. 18, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET “I wish…Continue readingWhat I Read: Biden’s Covid-19 Plan Is Maddeningly Obvious

What I Read: testing for machine learning

By Andrew Fairless on January 20, 2021December 28, 2020

https://www.jeremyjordan.me/testing-ml/ Data ScienceEffective testing for machine learning systems.Jeremy Jordan19 Aug 2020 “In this blog post, we’ll cover what testing looks like for traditional software development, why testing machine learning systemsContinue readingWhat I Read: testing for machine learning

What I Read: Autotuning Multi-Objective Optimization

By Andrew Fairless on January 19, 2021December 27, 2020

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2020/08/autotuning-multi-objective-optimization-linkedin-feed-ranking.html Autotuning for Multi-Objective Optimization on LinkedIn’s Feed RankingBy Marco Varela & Mavis Li, LinkedIn “First, we learned that in this particular optimization problem it pays to formulate your problemContinue readingWhat I Read: Autotuning Multi-Objective Optimization

What I Read: Maintaining Machine Learning in Production

By Andrew Fairless on January 19, 2021December 27, 2020

https://eugeneyan.com/writing/practical-guide-to-maintaining-machine-learning/ A Practical Guide to Maintaining Machine Learning in Production “This follow-up will share some practices I’ve found useful to maintaining machine learning in production. They are: Monitor Training andContinue readingWhat I Read: Maintaining Machine Learning in Production

What I Read: Floating-Point and Deep Learning

By Andrew Fairless on January 18, 2021December 27, 2020

https://eigenfoo.xyz/floating-point-deep-learning/ Floating-Point Formats and Deep Learning “Floating-point format is not a crucial consideration in deep learning, but it can make a significant difference. What is floating-point, why should you (aContinue readingWhat I Read: Floating-Point and Deep Learning

What I Read: Improving AI Economics

By Andrew Fairless on January 18, 2021December 27, 2020

https://a16z.com/2020/08/12/taming-the-tail-adventures-in-improving-ai-economics/ Taming the Tail: Adventures in Improving AI Economicsby Martin Casado and Matt Bornstein “Many of the difficulties in building efficient AI companies happen when facing long-tailed distributions of data….Continue readingWhat I Read: Improving AI Economics

What I Read: Data Scientists Should Be More End-to-End

By Andrew Fairless on January 17, 2021December 26, 2020

https://eugeneyan.com/writing/end-to-end-data-science/ Unpopular Opinion – Data Scientists Should Be More End-to-End “Eric Colson of Stitch Fix was initially “lured to a function-based division of labour by the attraction of process efficiencies”…Continue readingWhat I Read: Data Scientists Should Be More End-to-End

What I Read: Air pollution is worse than we thought

By Andrew Fairless on January 17, 2021December 26, 2020

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/8/12/21361498/climate-change-air-pollution-us-india-china-deaths Air pollution is much worse than we thoughtby David Roberts “The evidence is now clear enough that it can be stated unequivocally: It would be worth freeing ourselves fromContinue readingWhat I Read: Air pollution is worse than we thought

Month: January 2021