KDD 2016 Notes

Workshop Day: 14 August 2016 Missed the keynote as the earliest BART reached Powell St by 8:45. Wanted to attend the whole of the time-series workshop but there were other interesting things that had my attention. Nevertheless, anyone interested in time-series...

NVidia GTX 1080 installation on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

I have spent too many hours trying to figure this out, so here it is. Come, find out how to install the latest NVidia drivers to get your NVidia GPU working on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. These steps work for GTX 1080.

Moonwalking with Einstein: Joshua Foer

A journalist (Josh Foer) gets curious about memory championships and trains to participate in one. Through “deliberate practice”, he wins the US memory championships and represents US at the World memory championships. Overall, I found this book an...