Software Engineering
September 20, 2016
Angular2 (NG2) Focus Directive
Requesting focus on an input field is surprisingly hard in angular2. Especially when the input field is inside a dialog or an *ngIf that is not initially visible. After much trial and error this is the solution I came up with. It works on my machine ...
September 22, 2016
How to build XGBoost on Windows - Now with GPU support
This is how I managed to build XGBoost on my environment: Install CMake CMake can be downloaded from here: https://cmake.org/download/ I downloaded the 64 bit zip file: https://cmake.org/files/v3.6/cmake-3.6.2-win64-x64.zip and unzipped it to c:\dev\ ...
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 ...