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David Booth

October 24, 2016

Cloud is changing the IT Professional's Skills

The shift from "traditional" IT to cloud IT is well and truly underway. Many public, private organisations and government agencies are moving a part or all of their IT systems into the cloud. The move to the cloud has resulted in a big change in the ...

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Guido Tapia

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\ ...

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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 ...

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Guido Tapia

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 ...

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