The Eternal Beginner

Droga Jest szeroko, wygodnie, choć bywa stromo pod górę.

For many years my mental map of SW Essex contained just two good dining places: Magic Mushroom and The Bell.

When I set off on this pub quest, I wanted to treat it as an anthropological endeavour.

We arrive in Festival Leisure Park and struggle to pass through to the opposite end, to today’s venue.

We are approaching Billericay on our quest.

A bonus pub visit this week.

Last Sunday I visited The Four Seasons again, to watch the England vs.

This week we had a place called The Owl and Pussycat in our schedule, but a quick look at Google reviews suggested it’s a town bar similar to the Plough and Tractor, i.e. lager and sports on TV, but no food.

The Olde Dog Inn was a pleasant break from our recent exploration of chain pubs in the town centre.

Ah, Weatherspoons!

It occurred to me that my long-held belief about lack of pubs in South-West Essex stemmed from a peculiar understanding of what a pub is.

This wasn’t planned, as we’ve already done our pub quest round this week, but we ended up in Brentwood and Z was hungry, so we popped into The Robin.

This week it was meant to be The Plough and Tractor in Basildon.

I live in a cultural and culinary desert.

W Yorkshire Dales byliśmy po raz pierwszy.

My job involves organising and analysing data, and training and evaluating machine learning models.

January 2011 found us in eastern Australia, desperately trying to get to from Cairns to Sydney in time for our flight back home.

I took my first steps towards independent, adult living one summer in the middle of my university course.

There are recipes that I gleaned from the Internet, and which I am very fond of.

KDD 2018 was intense.

It must be an exciting time for quantum computing researches.

The Explainable Models for Healthcare AI tutorial was presented by a trio from KenSci Inc. that included a data scientist and a clinician.

Go away and have fun building models like there is no tomorrow.

The Deep Learnig for Computational Health tutorial was presented by Jimeng Sun, Edward Choi and Cao Xiao.

Consider a binary classifier that produced the following counts of true positives (TP) and false positives (FP) on test data. tp_observed = 5285 fp_observed = 3184 We would like to know the 95% confidence interval for precision metric of this classifier.

From my childhood I remember that to maintain the staple lunch of a soup and a main course through the summer heatwaves, the soup had to be replaced with a cold, often milk-based concoction.

Having for the last year incessantly worried about the day when someone asks how we achieved a certain model metric, and not being able to answer or even replicate the result, I found the subject of Reproducibility and Provenance in Data Science mini-conf…

Alentejo Mam do krajów śródziemnomorskich sentyment.

Konie, joga i Trump The Log House się prawie nie zmienił, woda wciąż wali siarą, zasięgu komórki wciąż nie ma, nadal jest to miejsce, które uwielbiam.

A supervised machine learning problem can be viewed as approximating an unknown target function $f:\mathcal{X}\rightarrow \mathcal{Y}$ by constructing a function $\hat{f}:\mathcal{X}\rightarrow \mathcal{Y}$ using a set of $k$ training examples $T=\{\left<…

Nazwa: Dulux Trade London Revolution Co?

W zeszłym roku Z. wpadła na pomysł, żeby kupić samochód i robić sobie długoweekendowe wypady do parków narodowych.

A skiing week in a rented apartment usually means serious culinary constraints.

Minęły już dwa lata od Kilimandżaro, nawyższy więc czas znów się trochę sponiewierać.

Having decided to live apart from civilisation, on the outskirts of a tiny hamlet, two hundred thousand souls, I am at the mercy of my local Tesco as far as food supplies are concerned.

For the past two months I have used Zeppelin-based notebooks as my primary IDE for data exploration, experiment documentation and prototyping of production code.

Prius Są pewnie miejsca w USA – Nowy Jork, na przykład – gdzie można przylecieć, nie mieć samochodu i nic na tym nie stracić.

Po jedenastu latach wróciliśmy do Dartmoor.

I vaguely remember Internet search before Google.

In this installment we are going to look at the elephant in the room of digital security: passwords.

A few years ago I used to not care much about the digital trail I left all over the internet.

Software is pervasive in the modern world and has influence over many aspects of our lives.

I met Katja at Barleylands Farmers Market near Billericay.

Rakieta Dziwolągi, egzotyka, ciekawostki – to absorbuje gawiedź.

IBM Watson’s spectacular success in Jeopardy a couple years ago was widely reported and highlighted the fact that the company, not generally considered to be at the forefront of technological innovation for the past 15 years or so, is attempting to carve…

Z jednej strony ulicę zamyka Tacheles.

Wyjechaliśmy znów na Wielkanoc do parku narodowego.

Have you heard of ketosis?

Safari polega na tym, że się je, je i je, aż się nie można ruszyć, a później wsiada się w Land Cruisera albo (znacznie rzadziej) w Defendera i jest się wożonym po niesamowitych wertepach.

Team Kilimanjaro ma dość skomplikowaną strukturę: płaci się firmie Lewin Ventures Limited zarejestrowanej na Gibraltarze, zaś pieniądze wpłynąć mają na konto banku w Rydze.