TensorFlow or Keras? Which one should I learn?

Deep learning is everywhere. 2016 was the year where we saw some huge advancements in the field of Deep Learning and 2017 is all set to see many more advanced use cases. With plenty of libraries out there for deep learning, one thing that confuses…

Self-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree - Is it worth it?

There has been a lot of fuss about the Udacity’s Self-driving Car Engineer Nanodegree program. I joined the program in November 2016 and I graduated in October 2017. In this post, I will share my experience throughout the Nanodegree…

The Meltdown bug and the KPTI patch: How does it impact ML performance?

Should you Kaggle?

“Another competition launched on Kaggle”, “It’s a competition platform”, “It’s a data science platform”, “Don’t start with…

Benchmarking LightGBM: how fast is LightGBM vs xgboost?

This post is about benchmarking LightGBM and xgboost (exact method) on a customized Bosch data set. I have seen xgboost being 10 times slower than LightGBM during the Bosch competition, but now we got back with some numbers to…

How I got 3rd place in The Ultimate Student Hunt

The Ultimate Student Hunt was a week-long machine learning competition hosted by AnalyticsVidhya, in which I came solo 3rd place. Here’s a blog post going in-depth into my solution and thought process.

Low-cost autonomous taxis for the world: AMA with Tarin Ziyaee, Director of AI at Voyage

AMA with Anthony Goldbloom, CEO of Kaggle, the open data science platform

Deep Learning Rig — Part One

Today, I decided to blow a crap ton of money on a deep learning rig.