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Lessons learned and reinforced from writing my own deep learning package

written by Eric J. Ma on 2018-02-28 | tags: data science deep learning message passing neural networks software engineering graph theory

At work, I’ve been rolling my own deep learning package to experiment with graph convolutional neural networks. I did this because in graph-centric deep learning, an idea I picked up from this paper, the inputs, convolution kernels, and much more,... (read more)

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Joy from teaching

written by Eric J. Ma on 2018-02-26 | tags: teaching education datacamp

It always brings me joy to see others benefit from what I can offer.

Thanks for sharing the fruits of your journey on LinkedIn, Umar!

Also a big... (read more)

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Annotating code tests and selectively running tests

written by Eric J. Ma on 2018-02-25 | tags: programming python testing software engineering

In this blog post, let me share with you how we can selectively run a test using pytest's machinery.

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nxviz first PR merged!

written by Eric J. Ma on 2018-02-21 | tags: software engineering data visualization nxviz graph theory data science

In celebration of the first pull request that the nxviz project has received!

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Deep Learning and the Importance of a Good Teacher

written by Eric J. Ma on 2018-02-20 | tags: data science education teaching deep learning

Or: "Why having a good teacher was so instrumental in my learning of deep learning."

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Data scientists need to write good APIs

written by Eric J. Ma on 2018-02-13 | tags: software engineering data science

In which I argue why data scientists need to know how to write good APIs, or more generally, have basic software development skills.

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Bayesian Inference & Testing Sets

written by Eric J. Ma on 2018-02-07 | tags: bayesian statistics data science

Further thoughts on whether Bayesian models overfit.

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PyCon Program Committee Review

written by Eric J. Ma on 2018-02-06 | tags: pycon conferences python

My reflections on reviewing talk proposals for PyCon 2018.

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Refactor Notebook Code

written by Eric J. Ma on 2018-01-29 | tags: jupyter data science software engineering

In which I argue why we should refactor code out of Jupyter notebooks as soon as possible.

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PyMC3 docs + Weibull patches merged!

written by Eric J. Ma on 2018-01-18 | tags: bayesian software development open source data science

I made a few pull requests to PyMC3! Come read about them :).

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