In the last 5-6 years, machine learning has gone from ‘crazy idea from the 1980s’ to ‘software’. That has come with several waves of deployment and several waves of company creation, as we work out what do do with it. It’s the new SQL. (more…)

Machine learning offers a fantastically powerful toolkit for building complex systems quickly. This paper argues that it is dangerous to think of these quick wins as coming for free. Using the framework of technical debt, we note that it is remarkably eas... (more…)

I’ve spent almost a decade with one foot in engineering and the other in data science. Here are my thoughts on the gap between the two. (more…)

TensorFlow doesn't support macOS or AMD/ATI-based GPUs because it uses CUDA, an NVIDIA-specific API. However, many AMD GPUs support OpenCL and Metal. (more…)

Experts at the Table: It's not as accurate as simulation, but it's a lot faster. (more…)