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What is ML? part 2

machine learning

What is ML? part 2

Yesterday [https://rolisz.ro/2020/12/21/what-is-ml/] I wrote how AI made big promises in the past but it failed to deliver, but that now it's different. What's changed? Well, now we have several products that work well with machine learning. My favorite example is Google Photos [https://photos.

machine learning

What is ML?

Machine learning is everywhere these days. Mostly in newspapers, but it's seeping into many real life, actual use cases. But what is it actually? If you read only articles on TechCrunch [https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/03/ais-next-act-genius-chips-programmable-silicon-and-the-future-of-computing/] , Forbes [https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/07/09/elon-musk-tesla-will-have-level-5-self-driving-cars-this-year/] , Business

Machine Learning stories: Misunderstood suggestions

machine learning

Machine Learning stories: Misunderstood suggestions

A couple of years ago I was working on a calendar application, on the machine learning team, to make it smarter. We had many great ideas, one of them being that once you indicated you wanted to meet with a group of people, the app would automatically suggest you a

My next steps

In November I quit my job as the tech lead of the machine learning team at Archive360. Starting December 1st I am looking to provide my services as a machine learning consultant.

Tailscale

I want to share about an awesome piece of technology that I started using recently: Tailscale [https://tailscale.com/]. It's a sort of VPN, meaning it sets up a private network for you, but only between your devices, without a central server. It does so without you having to open

Multiple cursors

Multiple cursors

Multiple cursors [https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/guide/tips/multi-cursor/] are a feature that has been around for several years. I have heard of it first from SublimeText fans, but I always thought I don't need it. At the time, I was a huge Vim fan and I thought I

Backing up 4: The Raspberry Pi

Backing up 4: The Raspberry Pi

More than a year ago [https://rolisz.ro/2019/03/16/backing-up-3-syncthing/] I described how I used Syncthing to backup folders from my NAS to an external harddrive attached to my parents PC. This was supposed to be my offline backup. Unfortunately, it didn't prove to be a very reliable

Playing Codenames in Rust with word vectors

Playing Codenames in Rust with word vectors

In a previous post [https://rolisz.ro/2020/06/10/playing-codenames-with-rust/] I implemented the game of Codenames in Rust, allowing a human player to interact with the computer playing randomly. Now let's implement a smarter computer agent, using word vectors. Word vectors (or word embeddings) are a way of converting

Tenet

After many delays, the movie Tenet has finally come to the cinema. It's amazing. I loved every single bit of it. Almost 2.5 hours of pure awesomeness. #christopernolan4president This is what a good movie is supposed to be like. Go on, go see it. The rest of the post

Visiting Romania: The Black Sea

Visiting Romania: The Black Sea

Fun fact about me: until this year, I've never been to the Black Sea for touristy, sun bathing and relaxing purposes. I've been there 3 times before: the first time in an April, for a Math Olympiad, when it was cold, the second time in a February, for a Physics

Visiting Romania: Șuior

Visiting Romania: Șuior

I have to admit that I haven't seen too much of my home country. I've set foot in at most half of the counties and I've actually visited and done touristy things in even fewer of them. I've visited more countries than that as a tourist. But after a recent

Boardgames Party: Azul

Boardgames Party: Azul

Last weekend I played a fun game called Azul, which has won many awards, among which the famed Spiel des Jahres in 2018. The name comes from "azulejos", Portuguese tiles made by the Moors. A portugese king fell in love with them and tasks the players with making the most

Getting rid of vmmem

Getting rid of vmmem

A while ago I noticed in Task Manager that there is a process called Vmmem running and it's using about 5-15% CPU constantly. A quick duckduckgoing revealed [https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180717-00/?p=99265] that it's a virtual process that represents the total system usage by VMs. Alright, so

Note taking with Obsidian

Note taking with Obsidian

After starting to use spaced repetition more actively [https://rolisz.ro/2019/12/30/cracking-the-human-memory/] and being more consistent with my journaling [https://rolisz.ro/2020/05/24/bullet-journaling/], now I've tackled improving my note taking skills. Over the last couple of months, I've read about various note-taking methods, different

Battlestar Galactica

Battlestar Galactica

I finally did it: I watched one of the best TV shows made in the last 20 years (at least according to a list [https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/arts/television/best-drama-series.html] made by the New York Times). For some reason, I didn't like the concept back when

Showing current Kubernetes cluster in Powershell prompt

Showing current Kubernetes cluster in Powershell prompt

After nearly clearing the wrong Kubernetes cluster, I decided to add the name of the currently active cluster to my Powershell prompt. There are plenty of plugins to do this in Bash/Zsh/fish, but not as many for Powershell. It's not hard to do, but the syntax and tools

Going camping

I have never been camping in my life. I slept once in a tent in my aunt's backyard, with my cousins, but that doesn't count. This year I've decided it's about time to fill that gap in my life and actually sleep in a tent in the forest. I actually

Giving code presentations

Giving code presentations

I sometimes give talks at the local tech hub [https://oradeatechhub.ro/] in the city where I live. It's not a big community, but I enjoy giving talks and they often provide a necessary deadline and motivation to finish some projects. Last week I gave a talk about Rust. Given

An update on 100 Days to Offload

An update on 100 Days to Offload

It's been almost two months since I have started the #100DaysToOffload challenge. During this time I have managed to write 25 blog posts, which is more than I wrote last year in total. But in June I found myself posting less and less often. What's going on? Part of the

Pixel 3a

I've been a long-time fan of Google-made/branded phones. Back in 2014, I got a Nexus 5. Then I moved on to a 5X. Then I explored the other side, having an iPhone 6S for a year. I was not impressed by iOS, so then I switched back to Android,

How Much Does It Cost To Run This Blog?

How Much Does It Cost To Run This Blog?

The current meme/trend/fad blog post topic in my [https://zerokspot.com/weblog/2020/06/15/how-much-does-it-cost-to-run-this-blog/] blogroll [https://kevq.uk/how-much-does-it-cost-to-run-this-blog/] is [https://jlelse.blog/posts/costs-blog/] about how much it costs to run a personal blog. So here are my costs per month: ServiceMonthly CostsDomain name1€VPS

My operating system journey

My operating system journey

Getting started with Linux Ten years ago [https://rolisz.ro/2010/10/23/dicotomia-mea/] I was writing how I'm a big fan of Windows (and Android). I would regularly get into friendly debates with Cătălin [https://laseratrest.com/], who was a staunch supporter of Linux. I kept dipping my toes

Playing Codenames with Rust

Playing Codenames with Rust

I love playing board games. I love machine learning. I love Rust. So why not combine them and do something really fun? So I ran a word vector analogy query and I got back: machine learning + board games - Rust = Codenames So let's implement Codenames in Rust. It's a simple

Boardgames Party: Codenames

Boardgames Party: Codenames

Lockdown is over, time to play some games that work well in larger groups, such as Codenames, which is a very fun game to play, but it requires language skills. On the box it says it can be played by 4-8 players, but I think you can easily have more

Happy decennial anniversary!

Happy decennial anniversary!

Well, this has happened too: ten years of blogging. I feel like it's only yesterday that I wrote the 5 year anniversary post [https://rolisz.ro/2015/06/08/happy-5th-birthday/]. Some things have changed in the meantime, some haven't. I still enjoy writing, but my goals about my blog have