written by Eric J. Ma on 2021-03-04 | tags: automation computation reproducibility
What are phony targets in Makefiles? Or have you not heard of them before? Here's a short post documenting a minimal example of what phony targets are.
Read on... (132 words, approximately 1 minute reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2021-03-01 | tags: machine learning system design data science
In which I share some resources on MLOps and ML Engineering.
Read on... (202 words, approximately 2 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2021-02-28 | tags: shell programming
If you're having problems with `tmux`, `zsh`, and your PATH environment variable like I did, learn from my experience: the interwebs gave me a way to get everything to play nicely.
Read on... (132 words, approximately 1 minute reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2021-01-27 | tags: data science macbook macos arm m1
Some of my early impressions using the M1 MacBook Air for data science purposes.
Read on... (1335 words, approximately 7 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2021-01-24 | tags: programming coding
I finally figured out how multiple dispatch works. Come read on to see my learnings here :).
Read on... (366 words, approximately 2 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2020-12-27 | tags: personal
I think I finally found a proper audiobook store that I'm willing to support! Come check out [Libro.fm](https://libro.fm), or read on to see why I like it.
Read on... (470 words, approximately 3 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2020-12-24 | tags: data science network analysis made simple tutorial continuous integration pipelines github actions
I had a bit of an adventure today beginning my move off Travis CI and onto GitHub Actions. GitHub Actions is a wonderfully built tool, and I'm a fan. Come check it out!
Read on... (1974 words, approximately 10 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2020-12-18 | tags: math graph theory category theory programming
I had an epiphany over the week, connecting graphs, programming, and category theory. I might be wrong, but if you're intrigued, come on in and check it out.
Read on... (724 words, approximately 4 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2020-12-15 | tags: notetaking productivity
On a recent vacation, since we've got nowhere to go, I decided to re-examine how I made notes in my personal and professional lives. The result is a lot of lessons learned into effective notetaking, and me building yet another thing. Curious to see what I learned? Read on!
Read on... (1332 words, approximately 7 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2020-10-18 | tags: linux tips
How do you prevent a headless Linux machine from going to sleep/suspend? I recently learned how to do so :).
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