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A fairly thorough explanation and exploration of python package and environment managers as of April 2021 with some opinionated setups proposed for different user types at the end.
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Using containers to run old & deprecated PyTorch code with relative ease
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Solving 'unsupported pickle protocol: 5' when trying to load mlflow models
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Serving NLP models with MLflow is a little trickier than serving models expecting tabular input. In this post we explore one possible solution with code examples.
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## Introduction
When you&#8217;re working with large datasets, storing them in git alongside your source code is usuall...
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<ahref="/2020/09/04/dark-recommendation-engines-algorithmic-curation-as-part-of-a-healthy-information-diet/">‘Dark’ Recommendation Engines: Algorithmic curation as part of a ‘healthy’ information diet.</a>
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### In an ever-growing digital landscape filled with more content than a person can consume in their lifetime, recommend...
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I recently ran into an issue where the newest version of Torch (as of writing 1.4.0) requires a newer version of CUDA/Nv...
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<ahref="/2019/06/20/how-can-ai-practitioners-reduce-our-carbon-footprint/">How can AI practitioners reduce our carbon footprint?</a>
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In recent weeks and months the impending global climate catastrophe has been at the forefront of many peoples&#8217; min...
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<ahref="/2019/04/24/why-im-excited-about-kubernetes-google-anthos-the-future-of-enterprise-ai-deployment/">Why I’m excited about Kubernetes + Google Anthos: the Future of Enterprise AI deployment</a>
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### _Filament build and deploy enterprise AI applications on behalf of incumbent &nbsp;institutions in finance, biotech,...
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<ahref="/2019/01/15/spacy-link-or-how-not-to-keep-downloading-the-same-files-over-and-over/">Spacy Link or “How not to keep downloading the same files over and over”</a>
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If you&#8217;re a frequent user of spacy and virtualenv you might well be all too familiar with the following:
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<strong>Looking back at some of the biggest AI and ML developments from 2018 and how they migh...
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**As adoption of chatbots and conversational interfaces continues to grow, how will businesses keep their brand safe and...
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I spent several hours trying to get to the bottom of why tmux was crashing as soon as I ran it on Fedora. It turns out t...
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<ahref="/2018/10/20/uploading-huge-files-to-gitea/">Uploading HUGE files to Gitea</a>
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I recently stumbled upon and fell in love with [Gitea][1] &#8211; a lightweight self-hosted Github and Gitlab alternativ...
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As a machine learning professional specialising in computational linguistics (helping machines to extract meaning from h...
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<ahref="/2018/04/05/phd-mini-sabbaticals/">Part time PhD: Mini-Sabbaticals</a>
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Avid readers amongst you will know that I&#8217;m currently in the third year of my PhD in Computational Linguistics at ...
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<ahref="/2018/03/21/re-using-machine-learning-models-and-the-no-free-lunch-theorem/">Re-using machine learning models and the “no free lunch” theorem</a>
I&#8217;ve just added a couple of improvements to timetrack that allow you to append to existing time recordings (either...
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I own a Pebble Steel which I got for Christmas a couple of years ago. I&#8217;ve been very happy with it so far. I can c...
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I&#8217;ve written a small command line application for tracking my time on my PhD and other projects. We use Harvest at...
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A testament to marketers around the world is the myth that their AI platform X, Y or Z can solve all your problems with ...
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<ahref="/2016/06/05/blackgangpi-a-raspberry-pi-hack-at-blackgang-chine/">#BlackgangPi – a Raspberry Pi Hack at Blackgang Chine</a>
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I was very excited to be invited along with some other IBMers to the Blackgang Pi event run by Dr Lucy Rogers on a semi ...
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I know I&#8217;m doing a lot of flip-flopping between SOLR and Elastic at the moment &#8211; I&#8217;m trying to figure ...
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Retrieve and Rank (R&R), if you hadn&#8217;t already heard about it, is IBM Watson&#8217;s new web serv...
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Hoorah! After a number of weeks I&#8217;ve finally managed to get SAPIENTA running inside docker containers on our EBI c...
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At the beginning of the month, I was lucky enough to spend a month embedded in the Watson Labs team in Austin, TX. These...
