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Using native Python packages onlyManually creating a novel configuration file for every new experiment is a tedious process. Especially if you want to rapidly deploy a vast number of jobs on a Kubernetes cluster, an automated setup is a must. With python, it’s straightforward to build a simple scheduling script that reads an experiment’s configuration, such as the batch size, writes it into the YAML file, and creates a new job. In this post, we’ll discuss the how. The best is that we require no additional packages!Photo…

When I was a beginner using Kubernetes, my main concern was getting code to run on the cluster. Thrown into a new world, I saw all these confusing YAML-Files, each line and indentation bringing a new meaning.Photo by Thais Morais on UnsplashOnce I learned the fastest way to get code into the file, I quickly flooded it with absolute paths. You can see a truncated example below, which I call the beginner’s way. Note that this is a perfectly valid way to run code; it just lacks features that upcoming sections focus on.The…

The Last of Us, the TV show adaptation of the popular 2013 video game of the same name developed by Naughty Dog, is now available to watch in India on Disney+ Hotstar. The first episode of the show is already available to stream for subscribers of Disney+ Hotstar Premium in India, and new episodes will be released here every Monday at 8:30am for the nine-episode first season. The show, created for HBO, stars Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey in the lead roles, and is set in a post-apocalyptic United…

The Last of Us continues to be one of the most talked about new shows on television, and it’s not even out yet. Set to release on Jan. 15, this HBO tale of zombified humanity is bound to terrify even the toughest fans — or us at least, which counts for something, right? As we get closer to the upcoming air date, the stars involved continue to share their unbridled thoughts on this beloved video game adaptation. One of the show’s most crucial character relationships comes by way of Joel and Tommy Miller, long-lost…

Fix the input ordering by using seedsWhen preparing machine learning experiments, the input pipeline plays a critical role in data preparation. While they are often straightforward to construct — the machine learning frameworks make this relatively easy —, they lack reproducibility.Photo by Quinten de Graaf on UnsplashThis is by default: randomness in the input data, such as applying shuffling after each epoch, has been shown to play an important role in neural network training. As such, it’s an obvious choice to “enable”…

Having proven themselves to be one hell of a double act in the phenomenal self-aware action comedy The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, the prospect of seeing Nicolas Cage and Pedro Pascal teaming up again would be a dream come true, especially if it were to happen in the Star Wars universe. The Mandalorian star has admitted in the past that he’d love for it to happen, and you can guarantee that fans all over the world would lose their minds if Cage was to bring his unique stylings to a galaxy far, far away to chow…

Visualize the differences and similarities between gradient descent, gradient descent with momentum, RMSprop, and AdamPhoto by Kristen Munk from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/photo/photo-of-person-walking-on-unpaved-pathway-2599546/If you are like me, equations do not speak for themselves. To understand them, I need to see what they do with a concrete example. In this blog post, I apply this visualization principle to popular optimization algorithms used in machine learning.Nowadays, the Adam algorithm is a very popular…

The Last of Us TV series trailer is out. Ahead of its debut next month, HBO Max has unveiled the trailer for its highly-anticipated, live-action adaptation of the zombie-killing survivor game, offering fresh glimpses at our leads Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey), as they cautiously head out into the heavily-infected west coast. Neil Druckmann, the game's original writer is attached to direct one episode of the HBO series, and collaborates with Craig Mazin (Chernobyl) as co-scribe. The Last of Us TV series…

Screenshot: HBO MaxIf there’s a genre that won’t die, it’s survivors doing their best (and sometimes their worst) amid a zombie apocalypse. Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us PlayStation games offer a particularly compelling take on the story—which is why the series is soon making the jump to HBO Max. Today, we’ve got close-up looks at the main characters thanks to a series of new posters.The adaptation, which arrives January 15,  stars The Mandalorian’s Pedro Pascal as Joel, a man out for redemption in a world riddled with…

The art of combining neural networks, fixed points and ordinary differential equationsSource: https://pixabay.com/photos/sea-waves-nature-light-ripples-7484743/Recently, smart researchers have realized that we can combine seemingly unrelated ideas to reinterpret how neural networks work and how we train them. First, if we increase the number of hidden layers of a neural network toward infinity, we can see the output of the neural network as a fixed point problem. Second, there is a deep connection between neural networks…