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.
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An opinionated guide to Python environments in 2021
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. -
Reproducing 'ancient' experiments with Pytorch inside docker
Using containers to run old & deprecated PyTorch code with relative ease -
Pickle 5 Madness with MLFlow and Python 3.6/3.7
Solving 'unsupported pickle protocol: 5' when trying to load mlflow models -
Serving NLP Models with MLflow
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. -
DVC and Backblaze B2 for Reliable & Reproducible Data Science
## Introduction When you’re working with large datasets, storing them in git alongside your source code is usuall... -
‘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... -
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... -
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... -
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,... -
Spacy Link or “How not to keep downloading the same files over and over”
If you’re a frequent user of spacy and virtualenv you might well be all too familiar with the following: <blockqu... -
Applied AI in 2019
<p style="font-size:0"> <strong>Looking back at some of the biggest AI and ML developments from 2018 and how they migh... -
🤐🤐Can Bots Keep Secrets? The Future of Chatbot Security and Conversational “Hacks”
**As adoption of chatbots and conversational interfaces continues to grow, how will businesses keep their brand safe and... -
Why is Tmux crashing on start?
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... -
Uploading HUGE files to Gitea
I recently stumbled upon and fell in love with [Gitea][1] – a lightweight self-hosted Github and Gitlab alternativ... -
Don’t forget your life jacket: the ‘dangers’ of diving in deep at the deep end with deep learning
<div> <h1> Deep Learning is a powerful technology but you might want to try some “shallow” approaches ... -
GPUs are not just for images any more…
As a machine learning professional specialising in computational linguistics (helping machines to extract meaning from h... -
Programmatically Downloading Open Access Papers
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Part time PhD: Mini-Sabbaticals
Avid readers amongst you will know that I’m currently in the third year of my PhD in Computational Linguistics at ... -
Re-using machine learning models and the “no free lunch” theorem
## Why re-use machine learning models? <div> <p> <figure id="attachment_246" aria-describedby="caption-attachment... -
How I became a gopher over christmas
Happy new year to one and all. It’s been a while since I posted and life continues onwards at a crazy pace. I mean... -
Why I keep going back to Evernote
<div> As the CTO for a <a href="http://filament.uk.com">London machine learning startup</a> and a <a href="https://www... -
Dialect Sensitive Topic Models
As part of my PhD I’m currently interested in topic models that can take into account the dialect of the writing. ... -
Exploring Web Archive Data – CDX Files
I have recently been working in partnership with [UK Web Archive][1] in order to identify and parse large amounts of his... -
timetrack improvements
I’ve just added a couple of improvements to timetrack that allow you to append to existing time recordings (either... -
AI can’t solve all our problems, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t intelligent
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We need to talk about push notifications (and why I stopped wearing my smartwatch)
I own a Pebble Steel which I got for Christmas a couple of years ago. I’ve been very happy with it so far. I can c... -
timetrack – a simple time tracking application for developers
I’ve written a small command line application for tracking my time on my PhD and other projects. We use Harvest at... -
The builder, the salesman and the property tycoon
A testament to marketers around the world is the myth that their AI platform X, Y or Z can solve all your problems with ... -
#BlackgangPi – a Raspberry Pi Hack at Blackgang Chine
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 ... -
Cognitive Quality Assurance Pt 2: Performance Metrics
***EDIT: Hello readers, these articles are now 4 years old and many of the Watson services and APIs have moved or been ... -
IBM Watson – It’s for data scientists too!
Last week, my colleague Olly and I gave a talk at a data science meetup on how [IBM Watson can be used for data science ... -
Cognitive Quality Assurance – An Introduction
***EDIT: Hello readers, these articles are now 4 years old and many of the Watson services and APIs have moved or been ... -
ElasticSearch: Turning analysis off and why its useful
I have recently been playing with Elastic search a lot for my PhD and started trying to do some more complicated queries... -
Home automation with Raspberry Pi and Watson
I’ve recently been playing with trying to build a Watson powered home automation system using my Raspberry Pi and ... -
Freecite python wrapper
I’ve written a simple wrapper around the Brown University Citation parser [FreeCite][1]. I’m planning to use... -
Scrolling in ElasticSearch
I know I’m doing a lot of flip-flopping between SOLR and Elastic at the moment – I’m trying to figure ... -
Spellchecking in retrieve and rank
### Introduction Being able to deal with typos and incorrect spellings is an absolute must in any modern search facilit... -
Retrieve and Rank and Python
## Introduction Retrieve and Rank (R&R), if you hadn’t already heard about it, is IBM Watson’s new web serv... -
Keynote at YDS 2015: Information Discovery, Partridge and Watson
<div dir="ltr"> Here is a recording of my recent keynote talk on the power of Natural Language processing through Wats... -
SAPIENTA Web Service and CLI
Hoorah! After a number of weeks I’ve finally managed to get SAPIENTA running inside docker containers on our EBI c... -
A week in Austin, TX – Watson Labs
At the beginning of the month, I was lucky enough to spend a month embedded in the Watson Labs team in Austin, TX. These... -
CUSP Challenge Week 2015
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SSSplit Improvements
## Introduction As part of my continuing work on [Partridge][1], I’ve been working on improving the sentence spli... -
Bedford Place Vintage Festival
Last week a bunch of my lindyhop group went and performed at the Bedford Place Vintage Festival in Southampton – i... -
Tidying up XML in one click
When I’m working on Partridge and SAPIENTA, I find myself dealing with a lot of badly formatted XML. I used to man...