Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Florida's bizarre attempt to buy a biotech industry

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Context: I moved to Miami for the year of 2017 while continuing to work remotely at Mount Sinai in NYC. The contrast between the academic an...
Sunday, January 3, 2016

How much faster is a truncated singular value decomposition?

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The Singular Value Decomposition is an important matrix operation which enables many other numerical algorithms. The SVD lets you tame seem...
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Spark should be better than MapReduce (if only it worked)

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Spark  is the user-friendly face of Big Data: a distributing programming framework which lets you write collection oriented algorithms in ...
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Big speedup for training Random Forests in scikit-learn 0.15

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Until recently, wiseRF was the obviously fastest Random Forest implementation for Python (and thus, the best library for dealing with larg...
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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

NIPS and the Zuckerberg Visit

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This past weekend, several hundred researchers, students, and hobbyists streamed into Lake Tahoe to attend a conference called Neura...
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Friday, October 11, 2013

Training Random Forests in Python using the GPU

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Random Forests have emerged as a very popular learning algorithm for tackling complex prediction problems. Part of their popularity stems ...
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Sunday, July 22, 2012

Expensive lessons in Python performance tuning

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Over the past year I've done a lot of number crunching in Python with the wonderful ipython / numpy / pandas / sklearn stack and using...
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