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Alex Cao

@caocscar

Data Scientist at the University of Michigan

 Ann Arbor
observablehq.com/@caocscar/covid-19-michigan-data
Joined October 2019
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You can join the codespaces beta here: github.com/features/codespac… Read the full blog post here: fastpages.fast.ai/codespaces
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This is the poster child for why nbdev exists 😍👏👏✨
Boris Dayma 🖍️ (@borisdayma) profile pictureBoris Dayma 🖍️
@borisdayma15 Dec 2020
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I don't like writing tests but nbdev makes it more simple and useful: interactive, easy to debug, close to real case scenario and great for documenting. They actually become the easiest way to understand what a function is supposed to do (which is not the case with pytest…)
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As we continue to reflect on 2020, the Observable team is inspired by the depth of notebooks the community has created. Thank you! ♥️ Today we're sharing a collection of the Top 10 Liked notebooks created by the community in 2020 👀 bit.ly/37jVkz5 #dataviz
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`from fastcore.parallel import parallel` fastcore.fast.ai/parallel#pa…

Parallel – fastcore

Threading and multiprocessing functions

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Ciprian Tomoiagă (@cipri_tom) profile pictureCiprian Tomoiagă@cipri_tom15 Dec 2020
Every time I need to parallelize something in Python
two-button meme about choosing between concurrent.futures and multiprocessing

ALT two-button meme about choosing between concurrent.futures and multiprocessing

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Here's What the Big Tech Companies Know About You 🔍 See full infographic here: visualcapitalist.com/heres-w…
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🎉 Feature launch: You can now create custom URLs for ALL of your notebooks regardless of whether they are published or private. This should make it easier to discover, share & organize your notebooks. 😎 Check out our announcement for more details ⬇️ buff.ly/3ogBISB
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As votes come in, a #dataviz look at what would it take for the trailing candidate to win bit.ly/3dZ9uau created by @tophtucker #Elecciones2020 #ElectionDay
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If you're using Colab and you feel like training your model on GPU is slow, switch to the TPU runtime and tune the "steps_per_execution" parameter in compile(). Seeing a 5-10x speedup is pretty common.
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Unboxing
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Pretty neat time series package from Uber's data science team. It's got a nice API and uses PyStan under the hood. github.com/uber/orbit
GitHub - uber/orbit: A Python package for Bayesian forecasting with object-oriented design and...

GitHub - uber/orbit: A Python package for Bayesian forecasting with object-oriented design and...

A Python package for Bayesian forecasting with object-oriented design and probabilistic models under the hood. - uber/orbit

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For spatial geeks: Came across this @lyzidiamond blog on EPSG 4326 vs EPSG 3857. Includes funny video with Alison Janney. lyzidiamond.com/posts/4326-v…
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This release was SO much work! Glad to finally have it out 🍻 The big impact for users will definitely be the transformer models and config system, but I want to talk about a feature I wasn't expecting to build until a few months ago: the new workflow system, spaCy Projects 🧵
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🎂 We're celebrating one year of Streamlit with some major updates! 🤩 Introducing horizontal and other layout options 🔺 Major updates to file_uploader 🆕 Our new blog Release notes: discuss.streamlit.io/t/versi… Layout article: blog.streamlit.io/introducin… #Python #OpenSource #pydata
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📣Today we are launching an easier way to embed your fully interactive #dataviz from Observable to other platforms where you want to share your work! Check out our announcement for more information ➡️buff.ly/3jIHji5
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I couldn't find a complete index to every module, function and class in the Python standard library all in one easy-to-browse place. So I made one. It's kinda fun to browse around and see what's there! Click here --> gist.github.com/jph00/d5981f…
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Collecting my thoughts on bitemporal charts observablehq.com/@tophtucker… A coronavirus example observablehq.com/@tophtucker… A chart template observablehq.com/@tophtucker…
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Top 8 Weather APIs for Developers buff.ly/2SPGPLb
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This library is totally amazing. I suspect that everyone building neural nets is going to want this in their life.
Terence Parr (@the_antlr_guy) profile pictureTerence Parr@the_antlr_guy6 Oct 2020
Introducing TensorSensor: a lib that clarifies exceptions by augmenting messages + visualizing Python code to indicate shape of tensor variables; works with Tensorflow, PyTorch, Numpy, and higher-level libraries like Keras and fastai. Article: explained.ai/tensor-sensor/i…
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D3.js@d3js_org27 Aug 2020
D3 6.0! 🥳 github.com/d3/d3/releases/ta…
Release v6.0.0 · d3/d3

Release v6.0.0 · d3/d3

Adopt ES2015, including support for iterables and collections (Map and Set). Remove d3.event; selection.on now passes events directly to listeners. Remove d3.mouse, d3.touch, d3.touches, d3.clientP...

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Transfer learning in GANs! By just unfreezing last few layers of discriminator, you can get pretty good results. Simple=win 🥇 I'm curious if a "best" transfer learning scheme in GANs will ever emerge. Good overview of other techniques too arxiv.org/abs/2002.10964
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