gpu
At work we use Google Cloud Platform to run our machine learning jobs on multiple machines. GCP has a monitoring platform called Stackdriver which can be used to view all kinds of metrics about your VMs. Unfortunately, it doesn't collect any metrics
personal
hemorrhage from the nose, usually due to rupture of small vessels overlying the anterior part of the cartilaginous nasal septum. Minor bleeding may be caused by a blow on the nose, irritation from foreign bodies, or vigorous nose-blowing during a cold The Free Dictionary Since I was a little kid
trips
At the beginning of the year, a dear brother and good friend, whom I met in New York, invited me to his wedding which was going to be in Hong Kong. What better excuse to go to visit "China" than going for a wedding? This also made the
programming
My Windows installation was on a 120 GB SSD and I decided it was time to upgrade that to 256 GB. Because I didn't want to reinstall my Windows, I copied it with CloneZilla. Everything seemed to work fine, until I formatted the old partition.
personal
Another half a year has passed from my latest goals and this is what seems like one of my worst performances so far. Turns out transitioning to a full time remote job is quite hard and time consuming. Also, not having a gym right at
programming
Updated December 2022 to add instructions for Windows Lately my computer network setup has grown more and more complicated. I have my server in the cloud, a NAS, a desktop work machine, a laptop and soon some Raspberry Pis too. In order to be able to easily
TV shows
I'm a huge sci-fi fan. I love sci-fi TV shows, but in the last couple of years, most of them have been... lacking, to put it gently. But finally, Sy-Fy made a new great show: The Expanse, based on a novel by James S. A. Corey. The Expanse
events
The last time I went to the theater was sometime in elementary school. I think it might have been The Lion King, but I'm not sure. I definitely don't remember anything that happened on stage. I vaguely remember the chairs and some of my classmates. But
programming
For work I recently needed to do something that is very similar to regexes, but with a twist: it should operate on lists of objects, not only on strings. Luckily, Python came to the rescue with REfO, a library for doing just this. My usecase was selecting phrases from Part-of-Speech
programming
After in the last post we looked how to get the data, now we are going to start analyzing it. The first question we are interested in is how quickly do houses sell. We don't have access to actual contracts, so we will use a proxy to measure
scraping
Having moved back to Romania, I decided I would need a place to live in, ideally to buy. So we started looking online for various places, we went to see a lot of them. Lots of work, especially footwork. But, being the data nerd that I am, I wanted to
synology
After more than a year of using my NAS only to collect dust and the occasional backup, I decided this month to start self hosting various web apps on it. Synology has a visual Docker interface, so I installed that and I started trying to install my first app: Monica,