Mike LiaoBuilding a Statically Typed Python (Part 1: Lexing and Parsing)For the class I’m taking on programming languages/compilers, we’re building a statically typed version of python called Chocopy. To…Oct 13, 20181Oct 13, 20181
Mike LiaoinTowards Data ScienceBenchmarking Hardware for CNN Inference in 2018CNN inference and edge computing is coming — just about every mobile platform(Apple, Samsung, Huawei) is about to get dedicated hardware to…Aug 27, 20183Aug 27, 20183
Mike LiaoDenso Robot Pick/Place with 3D PerceptionFor my second part of my internship, I worked on creating a Pick and Place demo for Flex(a manufacturer) using Aquifi’s Nautilus camera for…Aug 26, 20181Aug 26, 20181
Mike LiaoNvidia Conference: Future of Logistics with Reinforcement Learning by Instadeep notesI went to the Nvidia GPU conference and there was a talk about solving logistics with AI that might be interesting/relevant. It’s still…Apr 2, 2018Apr 2, 2018
Mike LiaoNumpy VectorizationLast month, I was implementing a K-Nearest Neighbor, and when I tried to test my “for-loop” implementation on a large test set, it was…Mar 30, 2018Mar 30, 2018
Mike LiaoHow does Bagging Work? (An alternative theory)Random Forest is a machine learning model that combines bootstrap aggregation and random feature splits for decision trees. Bootstrap…Mar 15, 20181Mar 15, 20181
Mike LiaoApplied ML on Structured Data: Deep Learning vs Tree Methods (Part 1)This is a technique used at Instacart, Stichfix, and Pinterest.Mar 4, 20181Mar 4, 20181
Mike LiaoinTowards Data ScienceDetecting Objects in (almost) Real-time: FasterRCNN Explained with CodeFasterRCNN is a network that does object detection. As explained by its name, its faster than its descendants RCNN and FastRCNN. How fast…Mar 1, 201811Mar 1, 201811
Mike LiaoDeep Layer Aggregation — Combining Layers in NN ArchitecturesI’ll be working to explain Deep Layer Aggregation, a neural network architecture that explores how best to aggregate layers across a…Feb 20, 20181Feb 20, 20181
Mike LiaoWhy Gun Ownership is Necessary: Government TyrannyWhen I was in China, this winter break, a friend told me about the story of tens of thousands of families being kicked out of their homes…Feb 18, 20181Feb 18, 20181