Coding with open source tools and frameworks. XGBoost bayesian hyperparameter tuning with bayes opt in Python. I just wanted to quickly share how I was optimizing hyperparameters in XGBoost using bayes opt. It does a k-fold cross validation while optimizing for stable parameters. XGBoost Validation and Early Stopping in R. There are very little code snippets out there to actually do it in R, so I wanted to share my quite generic code here on the blog.

Wednesday, 31 January 2018. Background reading on the reference counting vs tracing garbage collection debate. Now that I am revisiting this issue I am surprised to find many individuals and organisations repeating exactly the same experimental tests that I did and coming to the same conclusions. That explains how, after building their produ.

An old imperative dog tries to learn new functional tricks. Saturday, October 17, 2009. From my previous tinkering with erlang, back in the old days when book-learning erlang meant buying the orange.

The art of automatic memory management. Richard Jones, Antony Hosking, Eliot Moss. The field has grown considerably since then, sparking a need for an updated look at the latest state-of-the-art developments. The nearly universal adoption of garbage col.

In my first post on Swift. To reiterate the example, the. Protocol in Swift is defined as.

Experiments in Building a Design Team Over Distance. We have a great team of six designers at Atomic Object with decades of professional experience. Collectively, We have a broad skill set ranging from branding, illustration, iconography, branding, interaction design, information architecture, product management and front-end development. Posted on August 13, 2015.

Jon Harrop, of Flying Frog Consultancy. And there is a book of course.