aparrish

jayktaylor

Installing Python 3.5 on Debian Jessie with pyenv

Debian Jessie does not come with the correct Python version out of the box, and instead comes with Python 2. To be able to install Python 3(.5), we have a few options. We could build and install from source, but as per Debian's website, we shouldn't do this. Instead, we will use pyenv, a tool that allows users to switch Python versions easily without breaking their system.

Installing pyenv

To install pyenv, we will use the official installer.

curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yyuu/pyenv-installer/master/bin/pyenv-installer | bash

bartvm

A comparison of Theano with other deep learning frameworks, highlighting a series of low-level design choices in no particular order.

Overview

Differentiation

Symbolic: Theano, CGT; Automatic: Torch, MXNet

Symbolic and automatic differentiation are often confused or used interchangeably, although their implementations are significantly different.

pratapvardhan

from urllib import urlopen
from lxml.html import parse

'''
Returns a tuple (Sector, Indistry)
Usage: GFinSectorIndustry('IBM')
'''
def GFinSectorIndustry(name):
  tree = parse(urlopen('http://www.google.com/finance?&q='+name))
  return tree.xpath("//a[@id='sector']")[0].text, tree.xpath("//a[@id='sector']")[0].getnext().text

tsiege

ANNOUNCEMENT

I have moved this over to the Tech Interview Cheat Sheet Repo and has been expanded and even has code challenges you can run and practice against!






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bwhite

"""Information Retrieval metrics

Useful Resources:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~mooney/ir-course/slides/Evaluation.ppt
http://www.nii.ac.jp/TechReports/05-014E.pdf
http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs276/handouts/EvaluationNew-handout-6-per.pdf
http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/72/67/60/PDF/07-busa-fekete.pdf
Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval (Tie-Yan Liu)
"""
import numpy as np

jboner

Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
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L1 cache reference                           0.5 ns
Branch mispredict                            5   ns
L2 cache reference                           7   ns                      14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock                           25   ns
Main memory reference                      100   ns                      20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy             3,000   ns        3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network       10,000   ns       10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD*             150,000   ns      150 us          ~1GB/sec SSD