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Writing from PicNet's engineers on AI, software, cloud and the systems Australian organisations run on.
Vowpal Wabbit for Windows and Binary for Win x64
Getting VW working on windows is a real pain. Even though I had the whole environment set up as described on the readme it still took me a good couple of hours to build. So with absolutely no guarantee or support…
Property Market Predictions - PicNet Predictive Analytics
This post explores options for the application Machine Learning techniques to the Australian residential property market with the objective of predicting insights that would be useful for buyers, sellers and the…
The value of Kaggle to Data Scientists
Kaggle is an interesting company. It provides companies a way to access Data Scientists in a completion like format and a very low cost. The value proposition of Kaggle for companies is very clear; this article will…
Business future lies in cloud technology ?
My colleague David Booth recently wrote a nice article about Public Cloud Computing. This can be found here. David's article is timely and confirmed by the statement that Business Future lies in Cloud Technology as…
A Layman's Guide to Cloud Computing
The idea of cloud computing is not a new one. The concept has come and gone through various guises over the years. Consequently "the cloud" can mean many things to many people and this is why it can get very confusing…
Fluent python interface for Machine Learning
I often say that Machine Learning is like programming in the 60s, you prepare your program, double check everything, hand in your punch cards to the IBM operator, go home and wait. And just like back then, if you had a…
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