Engineering Skills for Data Scientists
Deploying ML models 'into production' as scalable APIs can be tricky. This post looks at how Serverless Functions can make deployment easier for some applications, and gives an example project to get you started deploying your own models as Google Cloud Functions.
Engineering Skills for Data Scientists
This post introduces the concepts behind 'serverless computing' -- a way of quickly and easily deploying lightweight apps (e.g. APIs). It looks at the associated advantages and disadvantages of serverless, and gives a short example showing how to deploy your own serverless function to Google Cloud.
Artificial Intelligence
This post introduces Xanthus - a new open source Deep Learning package built on TensorFlow 2.0 for quickly and easily building state of the art recommendation models in Python.
Literature
It's easy to feel that the present times are 'unprecedented'. Yet sometimes it's clear that the events of today are echoes of problems familiar to those in the past. This post shares an essay written by Orwell in 1945, that feels particularly relevant to the times.
Engineering Skills for Data Scientists
Creating CLIs can help improve accessibility and reuse of your scripts and packages, but they can also be a bit of a pain to set up and maintain. Fire makes building CLIs for your latest ML pipeline a breeze.
Personal
Here's my annual list of my favourite books from the past year. There's even a business book on here for the first time.
Programming
Python is a wonderful language for many applications, but it is not renowned for its speed. This post looks at how you can quickly and easily use Cython to dramatically accelerate your Python code (in some cases).
Computer Science
What if there was a framework that could be used to exploit the properties of matter for computation? Originally posted on The Conversation.
Personal
A rundown of my 5 favourite books from 2018, plus a few honourable mentions for good measure.
Technology
TQDM is a tiny Python package that lets you add customisable progress bars to your code. Ideal for some those nasty multi-hour model training jobs.