written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-08-02 | tags: data science open source gpu bayesian statistics
Open source software is awesome, and I've just been thoroughly convinced of why.
Today, I put in a PR to PyMC3. This was a bug fix related to the PyMC3 multinomial distribution's... (read more)
(483 words, approximately 3 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-07-22 | tags: bayesian deep learning data science
Sharing some thoughts on a Bayesian neural network that I just implemented.
Read on... (573 words, approximately 3 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-07-17
(a) Solving healthcare goes beyond solving the science underlying it.
At its core, healthcare delivery is essentially a human problem. Even what we choose to optimize for is a hard problem. Do we optimize for changing human... (read more)
(399 words, approximately 2 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-07-15 | tags: insight data science data science job hunt
Aaand with that, week 7 of Insight is done!
I had a short week because of SciPy 2017, and I'm thankful that I got a chance to head out there - had the opportunity to reconnect with many friends from the SciPy community.
The two days... (read more)
(520 words, approximately 3 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-07-12 | tags: scipy conferences python
I just finished from SciPy 2017! This was a fruitful conference, and I'm glad I managed to make it.
Monday was the first day. I wanted to get a better feel for the Jupyter widgets ecosystem, and as such I sat in on the corresponding
written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-07-08 | tags: insight data science data science job hunt
We had a short week this week because of the long July 4th weekend (Happy Birthday, America!).
Wednesday was my second demo day, this time at MGH. There were 8 of us demoing at MGH's Clinical DS team, and I really enjoyed the interaction... (read more)
(680 words, approximately 4 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-07-01 | tags: insight data science data science job hunt
First off, Happy Canada Day!
Week 5 is primarily focused on interview prep as a bunch of us go out for our demos.
We kicked off Monday with an interview prep field day. The main areas of focus for us were CS fundamentals, machine... (read more)
(616 words, approximately 4 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-06-30 | tags: bokeh data science dashboarding
In this blog post, I will show how Bokeh featured in my Insight project, FluForecaster.
Read on... (888 words, approximately 5 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-06-24 | tags: insight data science data science job hunt
Week 4 has been all about demos. Polishing our demos, picking companies that we want to demo at (and possibly interview at later on). Every morning, we practice our demos, 10 minutes per person, with the goal of keeping our demo to under 5 minutes... (read more)
(641 words, approximately 4 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2017-06-17 | tags: insight data science data science job hunt
This week was a week of polishing our final products and getting them in shape for our demos. Pushing a product to final production really involves a lot of nitty-gritty tweaking. In this blog post, I'll detail some of what I had to work... (read more)
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