Spark AI Summit 2020 Notes
vishwanath Spark AI Summit just concluded this week and as always, plenty of great announcements. (Note: I was one of the speakers at the event but this post is more about…
Let it read – A character-based RNN generating Beatles lyrics
The Bob Spitz biography stares at me all day as I spend most of my waking hours at my home office desk taunting me to finish it one of these…
Alesis V49
Finally bit the bullet and added the Alesis v49 to my motley collection of instruments. 49 keys is enough for a novice like me. I’ve been near midi keyboards a…
Leader Election
Citizens in a democratic society usually vote to elect their leaders based on a pool of candidates. Distributed systems can choose a master node as well. Moreso , they can…
Seven years
Seven years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer The author along with his friend, the resourceful Peter Aufschnaiter, takes you on a journey of 1000s of miles over hostile territories at…
Power Windows
Power Windows (1985) is the first Rush studio album I listened to and it remains my seminal Rush experience in the 80s Rush era (my other go-to’s are Hemispheres and…
Keras Callbacks
Keras Callbacks are incredibly useful while training neural networks especially when running large models on Azure (these days) that I know will cost me time, computation and $. I pretty…
Peak
A great book, well-worth sharing, that I recently read is Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by Anders Ericcson and Robert Pool. What does it take to become…
Sonic Pi
As a hobbyist musician for many years, it’s been a constant struggle to fuse the programming paradigm with musical ability. Without midi, it’s usually just a fruitless exercise trying to…
Moving
Moving some posts from medium for some enhanced plug-ins and flexibility. We’ll see how this goes.