01. September 2018
Deep Learning Fundamentals
Here’s a talk I gave at work that gives a run-down of some fundamental concepts in deep learning, and I finished the talk with an example of a convolutional neural network in keras.
01. February 2018
A Ruby Pipe
Javascript is going to get a pipeline operator any day now, and I love working with it in elixir, so I thought I’d try to make one in ruby.
01. January 2018
Introduction to J
I tried using j for some of my advent of code puzzles. I found it wasn’t totally suitable for a lot of the challenges, but I had fun learning about J nonetheless.
10. May 2017
Popping errors out from ruby threads using a Queue
I had an issue at work where some database writes were throwing errors within a thread, and the error was being silently eaten when the thread died.
01. May 2017
Intro to Bayesian Classifiers
Bayes’ theorem is a way of determining the likelihood of an event A given that another event B has occurred. It’s a way of making an educated guess without much information to go on.
28. March 2017
Adding Database Constraints Using the `rein` Gem
rein is a gem for adding database constraints in rails migrations. It’s always been possible to set these up using execute calls in the migration, but rein makes it look rails-y.
15. September 2016
My first slack bot
I am still working on picking up some elixir, so when a coworker mentioned that writing a Slack bot is cool, I decided to give that a try. Slack is a bit easier to work with than IRC because the communication is done in JSON so you can skip a step in message parsing.