by abhay | Aug 18, 2016 | machine learning
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...
by abhay | Jul 22, 2016 | deep learning, python
After jumping through many hoops, my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with NVidia GTX 1080 runs tensorflow 0.9 with GPU support. !! At the time of this writing, a simple “pip install tensorflow” does not get your the goodies of the GPU. Hopefully, someone will benefit...
by abhay | Jul 19, 2016 | linux
First, you will be glad to know that Linus Torvalds hates Nvidia precisely for the reasons why you are here. I have spent too many hours trying to figure this out, so here it is. Important Note: All these steps need to be performed with the display connected to the...
by abhay | Jul 10, 2016 | books
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...