written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-06-10 | tags: programming bayesian data science deep learning
Matt Johnson (of HIPS) had an interesting comment on Wednesday.
LLVM's relationship to machine code is a bit like Deep Learning's relationship to... (read more)
(73 words, approximately 1 minute reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-06-09 | tags: scipy conferences python network science graph theory data science
I will be at SciPy 2016 this year, to deliver a workshop titled "Network Science and Statistics: Applications and Fundamentals". A huge thanks to those who have... (read more)
(68 words, approximately 1 minute reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-06-07 | tags: python programming optimization
I highlight the use of PyPy, numba, scipy, numpy, and Cython as strategies for speeding up your Python code.
written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-06-03
This year at PyCon 2016, totally inspired by DB, I did the "hallway track".
What's the hallway track, you say? Basically, it means spending the majority of my time in the hallways of the... (read more)
(318 words, approximately 2 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-06-01
Having learned more about the web dev/software engineering world over the past few years, I have become more curious about static sites. Speed and security were my main concerns; WordPress has given me issues in the past. I heard quite a bit about... (read more)
(190 words, approximately 1 minute reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-05-31
In our Bible Study small group, I have found through empirical observation that when the group size is large (>5 people) and homogeneous (all guys/girls, all believers, all Bible study leaders), Bible study tends to be either too flat or too... (read more)
(558 words, approximately 3 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-05-29 | tags: pycon conferences python
In a flash, the PyCon 2016 tutorials are over!
My session on network analysis was on the first day, in the... (read more)
(496 words, approximately 3 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-05-22 | tags: odsc conferences data science
I had a ton of fun delivering a workshop on network analysis fundamentals at ODSC East yesterday! This is my bullet-point journal... (read more)
(319 words, approximately 2 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-05-20 | tags: academia feel good
Some good news: funding to try out a new idea :)
Read on... (220 words, approximately 2 minutes reading time)written by Eric J. Ma on 2016-05-16
Yesterday, I released PyFlatten to PyPI - it's a utility that can flatten nested data structures (e.g. list of lists; dictionaries of lists of tuples) into a single 1-by-N vector, while also... (read more)
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