The Perceptron stands as one of the most basic building blocks for creating neural networks, including more advanced structures like deep networks and their variants. Originally developed in the late 1950s, Perceptrons were designed to mimic the function of biological neurons. I recently wrote a blog post explaining some of the history of Perceptrons as … Read more
Unless you’ve been living in cave somewhere in remote Eurasia, you should know that deep learning is very popular, and very powerful. A variety of tools from self driving cars to Chat GPT use deep learning; they complex neural networks with many hidden layers. In the modern Tech environment, it can be very valuable to … Read more
Obviously, AI taken off in the last year in ways that were hard for most people to predict. AI went from being a somewhat niche technical subject that nerdy guys talked about on college campuses, to being so popular that Boomer parents and grandparents are saying that “AI will change everything.” And although I think … Read more
A couple of days ago, I wrote a blog post about how GPT writes bad Pandas code. If you’ve been reading at the blog for a while, you’ve probably realized that I have mixed feelings about AI code generators. On one hand, they can save you lots of time by writing large amounts of code … Read more
A few days ago, I was writing some code for a new machine learning course that I’m building, and I had a somewhat tricky problem to solve. As I’ve said in the past, Pandas code (and data manipulation more generally) is very important for machine learning. Not just for wrangling your data into the proper … Read more
AI is turning the tech world upside-down right now. With the release of large-language systems like Chat-GPT and various coding copilots, many people are questioning the value of a tech career. I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that if you’re just a plain old software developer, AI might undercut your … Read more
For years, people have been talking about the era of “big data.” The data deluge. As early as 2010, The Economist wrote about how “quantity of information in the world is soaring.” Now 13 years later, businesses have still struggled to keep up with the volume of data. This has been great for the data … Read more
I’ll never forget what my manager said to me. “Do you need me to break down some doors? Do you need me to flip over some tables?” He was talking as if we were going to war. We’ll call him Taylor. He was my manager at one of my first data science jobs, at a … Read more
Jesus. I just spent about an hour playing with GPT, asking it to write some Pandas code for me, and I want to set my computer on fire. Do you know the frustration and mild contempt you feel when something will make your life harder, but also offend your aesthetic sensibilities? Like going to a … Read more
Unless you’ve been living in a secluded hut on the side of a remote mountain in Nepal, you’ve probably heard major chatter about AI in the last few months. First, we had GPT-3 back in late 2022. Then, we got AI-generated images with tools like Stable Diffusion. Now, just yesterday, OpenAI released GPT-4, a multimodal … Read more