Last week the annual AWS technology conference re:Invent 2020 kicked off virtually. Typically a week-long physical conference held in Las Vegas this year, with the ongoing COVID19 pandemic, the conference moved to a virtual 3-week event. If you have paid attention to re:Invent, the past couple of years, machine learning…

NumPy or Numerical Python is an open-source Python library that makes it easy to complex numerical operations. Working with machine learning and deep learning applications involve complex numerical operations with large datasets. NumPy makes implementing these operations relatively simple and effective when compared to their pure Python implementation. At its…

Traditionally recurrent neural networks and their variants have been used extensively for Natural Language Processing problems. In recent years, transformers have outperformed most RNN models. Before looking at transformers, let's revisit recurrent neural networks, how they work, and where they fall behind. Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) work with sequential data…

AutoGluon and AutoML AutoGluon is an open-source AutoML framework built by AWS, that enables easy to use and easy to extend AutoML. It enables you to achieve a state of art predictive accuracy by utilizing state of the art deep learning techniques without expertise. It is also a quick way to prototype what…

Amazon SageMaker is beyond just managed Jupyter notebooks, it is a fully managed service that enables you to build, train, optimize and deploy machine learning models. A common misconception, specially when you are starting out with SageMaker is that, in order to use these services, you need a SageMaker Notebook…

I’ve always felt a little guilt for being able to take out enough time to read. Like everyone else who works in technology, a majority of my reading included documentation, user guides, product manuals and reviews. One of the things on my list for 2016 was to read more books…

25 years on, Linux still getting all the ❤ — My first Linux install was in 1998. It was a Fedora(update: I may have got the distribution name wrong, it was some kind of KDE based distro) distribution, from a CD that came free with a monthly tech magazine subscription CHIP. The installation itself was a dual boot on Windows…

Using The Amazon Echo To Manage Your Cloud Resources — Alexa, say Hello Since it’s launch, I have always been intrigued by the Amazon Echo, so when Amazon announced a rare discount on the Echo as part of their prime day, I took the bait and ordered one. Gladly, it did not fail to impress. Without any thing else, the Echo is a…

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is the process of managing and provisioning computing infrastructure (processes, bare-metal servers, virtual servers, etc.) and their configuration through machine-processable definition files, rather than physical hardware configuration or the use of interactive configuration tools. What is it all about? IaC is about rethinking the way we…