I wrote this as notes while preparing my thoughts for a student group presentation I’m scheduled to do this week. Introduction Data science is a poorly defined field with an unclear future. Simply go on Quora, Reddit, Twitter, surf the business news, the scientific journals, and so on, and you will find opinions from those […]
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The first part of these instructions are generic to any vm launch (unless you use a preconfigured image) Go to the cloud service of your choice (here Microsoft Azure) and launch a VM of a size of your choosing (nothing too tiny, probably 8GB RAM minimum if doing machine learning), running Ubuntu Server (or similar).
It’s pretty much undeniable that this phase of the trip is far more photogenic than the previous stops. I landed in Christchurch on the sixth of January, and spent three days there, two of which I was working remotely. I then drove down to a farmstay a bit south of Twizel, and then the next
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Australia, as experienced by me in Sydney and Melbourne was a friendly, but unremarkable (and too hot!) of a place overall. Nice, but nice enough to return anytime soon, given the long and expensive flight. That was, until I headed out to the Blue Mountains, a two hour train ride west of Sydney. As the
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Sydney, Australia There is only one place in the world to be for New Year’s Eve, and that is Sydney. The city is packed and the popularity, no doubt, is largely due to Sydney being one of the most beautiful cities in the southern hemisphere. The temperatures, in the 80’s to 90’s F, are in
…is a place filled with heat and tourists. Through the shimmering waves of hot air, a dozen languages can be heard filling the busy streets of the central business district (CBD) or simply ‘the city’ as the locals call this part of the downtown. This city is perfect in many of the ways I love.
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Mortal Engines has been doing terribly in theaters. Which is sad, because this epic steampunk adventure is, if I may say, probably better than it’s competition -specifically Spiderman and Aquaman, if the trailers are any indication of them as yet more generic superhero films. Indeed, Mortal Engines has already made it onto my list of
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Today, I got to see displays of living people pretending to be mannequins. That is, today is a “Very Neenah Christmas.” Apparently what is ‘very Neenah’ is to be a mannequin: so fake, ostentatious, and oddly proportioned? Who ever would have thought, that, when moving from a big city to a small city like Neenah,
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Just as we were beginning to lose all hope – our WiFi at the farm was powered by a daisy-chained rig to Verizon 4G, and there were no other options, we suddenly get Fiber Optic connection in!!?! From best to worst, literally over the course of this morning. Furthermore, I happen to be at the
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In the process of tidying up the house for sale, we had part of the driveway replaced which was fairly well cracked. Alas, it was actually perhaps a mistake, as the new concrete stood out hideously from the old concrete which had been stained darkly by many years of acorns and oak leaves. The human
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