Machine Learning vs. Optimization

Although it may be an odd comparison, sometimes this can be confusing for approaching problems. On one hand, mathematical optimization is used in machine learning during model training, when we are trying to minimize the cost of errors between our model and our data points. On the other hand, machine... [Read More]

Windows Subsystem for Debian

If you’re frustrated using Windows and there is no way around not using it use the following: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10 Open PowerShell as Administrator: Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux Install Debian: https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/p/debian/9msvkqc78pk6?rtc=1&activetab=pivot:overviewtab sudo apt update
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Downloading Debian!

This is my favorite Debian: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-cd/
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Setting up Azure NC6 for Kaggle Competitions

I have chosen NC6 and Ubuntu 18.04 Install the following using Lambda Stack: Deep Learning frameworks: TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, Caffe, Caffe 2 GPU software: CUDA, cuDNN, NVIDIA drivers Development tools: git, tmux, screen, vim, emacs, htop, valgrind, build-essential Using Kaggle’s beta API, you can interact with Competitions and Datasets to... [Read More]