written by Eric J. Ma on 2019-07-07 | tags: conferences scipy2019
Looking forward to another fun year at the SciPy conference!
Read on... (254 words, approximately 2 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2019-06-30 | tags: personal charity leukemia donations blood donation community service
After hearing that a friend was diagnosed with leukemia, I detailed a reminder to myself and all of us to register as bone marrow donors.
Read on... (315 words, approximately 2 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2019-06-15 | tags: graphs network science data science
The connection between graphs and linear algebra is profound and deep. I learned that lesson yet again. Come read more about it!
Read on... (189 words, approximately 1 minute reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2019-06-14 | tags: productivity mobile
How I use my iPad as a mobile working station, and the pros and cons compared to a regular laptop.
Read on... (1108 words, approximately 6 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2019-05-29 | tags: bayesian probabilistic programming tensors data science probability distributions
I learned a ton hacking on PyMC4 with the TensorFlow Probability team in Montreal this year, particularly about probability distributions and semantic issues that we can run into with tensor shapes. If you’re curious, read on!
Read on... (1653 words, approximately 9 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2019-05-11 | tags: pycon software development sprint open source
Together with my colleague Zach Barry, we led a pyjanitor sprint! It was really fun, looking forward to more in the future!
written by Eric J. Ma on 2019-05-10 | tags: programming coding data science
Some realizations on how disruptive context switching can be. My first thoughts on how to deal with it during a sprint...
Read on... (240 words, approximately 2 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2019-05-10 | tags: pycon 2019 conferences data science
My real-time thoughts on SciPy 2019’s tutorial and conference days. It’s been a pretty awesome experience thus far, though shouldering three tutorials was indeed a marathon for me, much as I love teaching!
Read on... (383 words, approximately 2 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2019-04-29 | tags: pycon python data science conferences
I'm headed out to PyCon 2019! This year, I will be co-instructing two tutorials, one on network analysis and one on Bayesian statistics, and delivering one talk on Bayesian statistics.
The first... (read more)
(329 words, approximately 2 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2019-03-24 | tags: data science machine learning
Have you heard of variance explained as a loss function and machine learning metric? Turns out it’s quite useful and interpretable. I’d like to share this new learning with you.
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