Deliberately Hacky

An analytical approach – Part 1 – Intro Since no one else has ever tried to answer the question of who the greatest grand prix driver of all time is (sarcasm), I thought it would be fun to do so. My hope is that this exercise will help me learn more about ranking systems and…

Worth a read for someone thinking about broad implications of the technology This is a book with some serious star power. With Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor, Eric Schmidt, former CEO and Chairman of Google, and Daniel Huttenlocher, Dean of the College of Computing at MIT it is impossible to…

Sneaking into front-end dev from the world of analytics I started coding professionally with a pretty typical analytics “stack” of SQL and originally SAS and then python. Prior to that I tried to learn web development by using a program from Microsoft called FrontPage (I’m dating myself); it did not go well. If I remember…

Taking a step back to review performance from the Rwanda CO2 Kaggle competition I placed 841st out of 1,442 submissions (59th percentile) which is certainly nothing to write home about, but given the relatively short amount of analysis and the extensibility of the tools developed it is not completely discouraging. So what could I have…

This post is part of series – Posts 0 and 1 So before we go any further let’s submit our results to Kaggle and see where we stand after just a little bit of work. To create a submission we need to apply our model to the provided test set and submit a csv in…

Kaggle Playground s3e20 – Post 1 This post is part of series – Posts 0 and 2 My goal with this series of posts is to step through the development of a model in this friendly competition as well as the development of tooling to make future model development faster and more repeatable. To that…

This post is part of series – Posts 1 and 2 Summary: So I was unable to devote the amount of time I needed to be able to learn compute vision, but this competition is far simpler so I think it will allow us to build some tooling to simplify and automate tasks. The goal…

Another older book I recently read; The Pragmatic Programmer was informative and is really a more detailed example go Agile software development than the Agile Manifesto, which the co-authors are also authors of. I listened to the audiobook and I think the material would be better consumed as written word. The primary reason is that…

I am forty years late to the party on this, but better late than never. Originally published in the mid ‘80s the book documents the development of computing from the early days at MIT where people scheduled time on the single computer there to the early days of the home PC. The book is broken…