I ran a race and made some graphs

Posted on Thu 17 November 2016 in dataviz • Tagged with dataviz, running, julia

The Cambridge Half Marathon was this past Sunday and I was able to race with a couple of friends. It was a gorgeous day and very nice course. As always, I was inspired by the diversity of runners.

After finishing, I was happy to see that the full results were …


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Why I'm bailing on Julia for machine learning

Posted on Fri 04 November 2016 in programming • Tagged with julia, python, ml

I'm bailing on Julia for machine learning — just for my one class, that is. Don't worry ~too much~!

I'm taking graduate machine learning (6.867) this semester at MIT. There are three homework assignments in the course that are structured as mini-projects, in which students implement canonical algorithms from scratch …


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