Is this a game... or is it real?

I heard the term "Full-Breadth Developers" on a episode of Changelog this morning. While I agree with everything Justin says in his post I have a, perhaps controversial take on new terms that are popping up for developers these days. Software developers today are just what they were when I …

Week 7 Learning Material

Structuring Machine Learning Projects - Week 2

This week covered the following topics:

• Carrying Out Error Analysis
• Cleaning Up Incorrectly Labeled Data
• Build your First System Quickly, then Iterate
• Training and Testing on Different Distributions
• Bias and Variance with Mismatched Data Distributions
• Addressing Data Mismatch
• Transfer Learning …

Week 6 Learning Material

Structuring Machine Learning Projects - Week 1

This week covered the following topics:

• Why ML Strategy
• Orthogonalization
• Single Number Evaluation Metric
• Satisficing and Optimizing Metric
• Train/Dev/Test Distributions
• Size of the Dev and Test Sets
• When to Change Dev/Test Sets and Metrics?
• Why Human-level Performance …

Week 5 update for my 12 Week Deep Learning Syllabus

I took a couple of weeks off for a mini vacation to Washington DC to attend my convocation with my family and then ended up getting sick which laid me up for a few days. Haven't been very productive the …

Week 4 Material

Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter Tuning, Regularization and Optimization - Week 2

This week covered the following topics:

• Apply optimization methods such as (Stochastic) Gradient Descent, Momentum, RMSProp and Adam
• Use random minibatches to accelerate convergence and improve optimization
• Describe the benefits of learning rate decay and apply …

The Andrew Ng's Coursera courses are so good I'm just going to finish out all 5 courses in the Deep learning Specialization. This will give me the foundational knowledge I'm looking for while I do some small side projects to test some implementations and learning the tools. For my first …

My goal is to do these postings on Sundays but I missed that this week due to taking Saturday off and the fact that week 4 of the the Coursera course took me longer than expected. Time well spent and worth posting on a Wednesday.

Week 2 Material

• Interactive Gradient …

This issue caused me way more time than I would like to admit so I'm writing this blog posting in hopes it will help someone else and save them some time.

I'm in the process of making the switch from developing with vim directly on Linux servers to using VS …

This week I started my (ChatGPT generated) 12 week deep learning path. I didn't get as much time to work on this as I had hoped due to a project at work and frustrating problems on that project. Still happy with progress this week though. The Coursera course is excellent …

Research truly is a winding path. I started along a path of interoperability of digital health records looking at protocols, current systems and considering methods for modifying protocols, filesystems with very high level goals of:

1. Putting control of the full health record including charts, results, diagnostic imaging etc into the …