Guido Tapia
September 22, 2016
Download XGBoost Windows x64 Binaries and Executables
[Edit]: It appears the XGBoost team has fixed pip builds on Windows. There are also nightly artifacts generated. As such, I hereby turn off my nightly builds. [Edit]: These builds (since 19th of Dec 2016) now have GPU support. If this causes any issu ...
December 6, 2016
Introducing XGBoost.Net - .Net wrappers for the awesome XGBoost library
Introducing XGBoost.Net - .Net wrappers for the awesome XGBoost library XGBoost is a big part of our Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics toolkit here at PicNet. We use it almost heavily for our proof of concept and prototype work and it is alwa ...
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 traditional ...
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: This falls back into the very common trap with managers ...
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 we always suggest customers run a 4-6-week proof o ...
May 5, 2019
PyTorch Implementation of "Unsupervised learning by competing hidden units" MNIST classifier
I recently watched this lecture 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 potentially solve the adversarial vulnerability inherent in most mod ...