Guido Tapia

Guido Tapia

September 22, 2016

Download XGBoost Windows x64 Binaries and Executables

[Edit]: It appears the XGBoost team has fixed pip builds on Windows [https://pypi.org/project/xgboost/#files]. There are also nightly artifacts generate [https://xgboost-ci.net/blue/organizations/jenkins/xgboost-win64/activity] ...

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Guido Tapia

December 6, 2016

Introducing XGBoost.Net - .Net wrappers for the awesome XGBoost library

Introducing XGBoost.Net [https://github.com/PicNet/XGBoost.Net] - .Net wrappers for the awesome XGBoost [https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost] library ...

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Guido Tapia

March 5, 2018

How to Work with Machine Learning

A very common problem I find in the industry is senior managers not fully understanding how best to utilize Machine Learning technologies to help their business. A common misconception is that these projects should be treated the same as tradition ...

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Guido Tapia

March 8, 2018

When is an Organisation Ready to Benefit from Machine Learning

I am told quite frequently that an organisation is not "mature" enough for machine learning. By this, managers usually mean one of the following things items are not at a level deemed adequate: ...

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Guido Tapia

April 13, 2018

Diminishing Returns in Machine Learning Projects

Any machine learning practitioner will tell you that there is a certain point in time where trying to eke out more performance/accuracy from a project seems like more effort than its worth. At PicNet [https://picnet.com.au] we always s ...

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Guido Tapia

May 5, 2019

PyTorch Implementation of "Unsupervised learning by competing hidden units" MNIST classifier

I recently watched this lecture [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lY-oAY0aQU] by Dmitry Krotov and found it very interesting so I thought it would make a good paper to try to reproduce. My original thoughts were that this could potenti ...

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