Jan 22To what extent can reforestation solve climate change?In 2020, I wasted a lot of time looking at my phone and aimlessly scrolling on Twitter. So, my new year’s resolution for 2021 to quit Twitter. I succeeded at quitting Twitter for all of 2021, but in 2022 I’ve decided to let myself occasionally have a peek at Twitter…Climate Change5 min read
Jan 21What can Jeff Dean teach us about climate change?Jeff Dean was one of the first engineers to join Google, and his research and engineering career has been prolific. He helped to create popular software packages such as Spanner, BigTable, LevelDB, and TensorFlow. …Climate Change3 min read
Aug 31, 2019Why Neural Architecture Search is becoming far less expensiveSearch times have gone down by 100x 1. Overview Recently, Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has begun to outperform expert engineers at designing fast and highly accurate deep neural networks (DNNs). However, NAS methods have typically required an astronomical compute cost to search the space of DNNs and select the right…Machine Learning5 min read
Published in Analytics Vidhya·Aug 20, 2019Not all TOPs are created equalWhat’s actually limiting the speed of my deep neural network? Deep Learning processor companies often highlight their products’ blazing-fast speeds in terms of metrics such as Tera Operations per Second (TOP/s) or Tera Multiply-Accumulate Instructions per Second (TMAC/s). What does this really mean, and are these numbers actually useful? But…Machine Learning10 min read