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5 days ago

Another Milestone: Coding Courses Complete

Rounding a Corner in my Master’s Degree Journey I recently submitted the final exam for the High Performance Computing course in my Master’s Degree program in Health Data Science. While this represents completion of 70% of my overall coursework (assuming I pass, fingers crossed…) this was the final code-specific data…

Data Science

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·Apr 30

And the Winner Is…

A Clear Answer to Which Machine Learning Approach is the Best A commonly asked question among those studying machine learning for the first time, especially after they have reviewed several different machine learning algorithms, is “Which one is the best one?” …

Data Science

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·Mar 29

Perfecting Parallel Python Programming

Use Dask for the Task and Bask in the Fast In my last post I compared four different approaches to performing a task in Python, with NumPy and vectorized Python dramatically outperforming for loops and list comprehensions. …

Dask

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Mar 26

Eat My Dust, Loops!

NumPy and Vectorization vs. List Comprehensions and For Loops Occasionally when facilitating Cornell classes a student question why NumPy functions and vectorized code approaches are so much better in data science than list comprehensions and native for loops, and what the actual performance difference is in real life. Since I…

Data Science

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Feb 27

Another Milestone

Google Cloud Certified Professional Machine Learning Engineer Last Friday I took and passed the Google Cloud Certified Professional Machine Learning Engineer exam. (GCCPMLE Certification? That’s a mouthful…) This one was tough in part because of its incredibly large scope. It covers domains from machine learning practitioner, general ML ops, and…

Machine Learning

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Feb 19

Fuzzy Wuzzy Neural Nets

Better Testing Error Gets! As a kid, I loved the play on words of the “Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear…” tongue twister (probably a little too much). It struck a chord with me, not only because it was hard to say five times fast, but because of the imagery of…

Neural Networks

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·Feb 8

Two Steps Forward, Two Steps Back

Repeat Until Convergence (Neural Networks and Back Propagation) In this post, I’ll start with a high-level review of what we’ve learned so far with neural networks and how they work up through a complete forward pass, and then conceptually walk through the back propagation technique to use gradient descent and…

Deep Learning

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·Jan 29

First Take: Self-Supervised Learning

De-mystifying a Concept That Could Change the World of AI/ML I’m still buried, so haven’t gotten into my back propogation blog post yet. However, I did run across a new-to-me concept that I once again found painful to try to research (see my previous blog for a summary of the…

Machine Learning

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Jan 9

Minutia Matters — Hello World Year 2

Why I Write the Blogs I Write I’m currently buried in a full-semester course that’s being run over just four weeks as part of my M.S. in Health Data Science program, so I might not get back to a time-consuming blog post till February. This is really a shame, because…

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·Dec 29, 2021

Uncovering the Deep State… of Neural Networks

Deep Learning Math Walk-Through and Code Logic In the previous blog post we walked through an example where we used a neural network with two neurons and a single hidden layer to produce a (wildly inaccurate) prediction function. As we discussed before, this is fine if two kinks in your…

Deep Learning

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Uncovering the Deep State… of Neural Networks