Brainsteam

The irregular mental expulsions of a PhD student and CTO of Filament, my views are my own and do not represent my employers in any way.

04 Sep 2020

‘Dark’ Recommendation Engines: Algorithmic curation as part of a ‘healthy’ information diet.

### In an ever-growing digital landscape filled with more content than a person can consume in their lifetime, recommend...
02 Feb 2020

PyTorch 1.X.X and Pipenv and Specific versions of CUDA

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...
20 Jun 2019

How can AI practitioners reduce our carbon footprint?

In recent weeks and months the impending global climate catastrophe has been at the forefront of many peoples’ min...
24 Apr 2019

Why I’m excited about Kubernetes + Google Anthos: the Future of Enterprise AI deployment

### _Filament build and deploy enterprise AI applications on behalf of incumbent  institutions in finance, biotech,...
15 Jan 2019

Spacy Link or “How not to keep downloading the same files over and over”

If you&#8217;re a frequent user of spacy and virtualenv you might well be all too familiar with the following: <blockqu...