Computer latency: 1977-2017
I’ve had this nagging feeling that the computers I use today feel slower than the computers I used as a kid. As a rule, I don’t...
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How to Install Odoo 11 on Ubuntu 16.04
Odoo is one of the most popular business softwares in the world. This guide covers the steps necessary for installing and configuring Odoo using Git source...
Read moreObject Detection for Dummies Part 2: CNN, DPM and Overfeat
Part 1 of the “Object Detection for Dummies” series introduced: (1) the concept of image gradient vector and how HOG algorithm summarizes the information across all...
Read moreUsing Artificial Intelligence to Augment Human Intelligence
By creating user interfaces which let us work with the representations inside machine learning models, we can give people new tools for reasoning.
Read moreUsing Artificial Intelligence to Augment Human Intelligence
By creating user interfaces which let us work with the representations inside machine learning models, we can give people new tools for reasoning.
Read moreSequence Modeling with CTC
A visual guide to Connectionist Temporal Classification, an algorithm used to train deep neural networks in speech recognition, handwriting recognition and other sequence problems.
Read moreHow good are decisions? Evaluating decision quality in domains where evaluation is easy
A statement I commonly hear in tech-utopian circles is that some seeming inefficiency can’t actually be inefficient because the market is efficient and inefficiencies will quickly...
Read moreHow out of date are Android devices?
It’s common knowledge that Android device tend to be more out of date than iOS devices, but what does this actually mean? Let’s look at android...
Read moreUI backwards compatibility
About once a month, an app that I regularly use will change its UI in a way that breaks muscle memory, basically tricking the user into...
Read moreObject Detection for Dummies Part 1: Gradient Vector, HOG, and SS
I’ve never worked in the field of computer vision and has no idea how the magic could work when an autonomous car is configured to tell...
Read moreFilesystem error handling
We’re going to reproduce some results from papers on filesystem robustness that were written up roughly a decade ago: Prabhakaran et al. SOSP 05 paper, which...
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