werediver

import threading


# Based on tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.instance() approach.
# See https://github.com/facebook/tornado
class SingletonMixin(object):
	__singleton_lock = threading.Lock()
	__singleton_instance = None

	@classmethod

cmeiklejohn

Think Distributed Systems Summer School
Providence, RI
Curriculum

Friday (night session, open discussion)

* Background, introductions
* What are you working on in distributed systems?
* Lightning talks on research or open problems

carlosmcevilly

#!/usr/local/bin/python3

"""
store and check items in a bloom filter

limitations:
- not optimized for speed.
- data structures on disk are not protected from multiple writers... so, use accordingly.
- some other rough edges... under development. example: no quiet option.
- mixing conventional bloom filter and vector treatment complicates things somewhat.

shagunsodhani

Curriculum Learning

Introduction

• Curriculum Learning - When training machine learning models, start with easier subtasks and gradually increase the difficulty level of the tasks.
• Motivation comes from the observation that humans and animals seem to learn better when trained with a curriculum like a strategy.
• Link to the paper.

Contributions of the paper