IanOzsvald

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by IanOzsvald 6y ago
Developing more than one revenue stream is likely to be a more resilient strategy than hoping that Google is happy to keep paying a competitor browser to stay in business
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by IanOzsvald 8y ago
I've recently written a related library - given a DataFrame it'll run sklearn's RandomForest to check which columns predict other columns. The goal is to learn which relationships exist within a DataFrame. Typically in the ex
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by IanOzsvald 9y ago
tensorflow looks to work fine with Python 3.4+ https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow I've just installed it using conda in Python 3.6 just fine.
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by IanOzsvald 10y ago
A few weeks back I surveyed my 3,500 members at PyDataLondon (London-based Python data scientists) about their Python version usage. At work 60% use Python 2.7, 33% use Python 3.4+. At home 44% use Python 2.7, 49% use Python 3.4+. I'm
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by IanOzsvald 10y ago
Some years ago (6 or so, from memory) I realised I'd been consulting in a role for too long and gone stale and had lost my creativity (not burned out, but approaching that state). I had just enough money to survive for 6 months so I st
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Which version of Python (2vs3) do PyDataLondon members use? Survey results(ianozsvald.com)
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by IanOzsvald 11y ago
To add some evidence - I co-chair PyDataLondon (3,000 members, UK's largest Python u/g, UK's most active data science group). I survey our members, our monthly attending group are 40% PhD, 40% MSc, 20% other, few have 5-10 yr
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by IanOzsvald 11y ago
+1 that conda solves "most of our packaging problems" in the science/data science world (I've lived within it for 1.5 years, it really simplifies things). I use conda on Linux, Mac and Windows for r&d and deployment
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by IanOzsvald 12y ago
Hey fijal. Agreed that the survey has a self-selecting audience, I'd also argue that they're the more forward-thinking folk rather than jobbing background users. Back in April 2013 (the last time I saw python.org download stats -
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by IanOzsvald 12y ago
HotPy is Mark Shannon's research project, he's not making a 'new better Python for the masses', he's using it to test his assumptions about ways CPython could be improved. Ask him about it if you bump into him at a
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by IanOzsvald 12y ago
The recent Py2 vs Py3 survey over Christmas suggests that approx. 32% of respondents write in Python 3 (increasing on last year), 68% write in Python 2 (decreasing on last year). Py3 usage is up approx. 12% on last year's survey. For p
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by IanOzsvald 12y ago
I use a Dell E6420, as a data scientist I kept breaking the default 8GB so upgraded to 16GB which is almost always fine. I won't go >8GB most days but when I do, I need it (else I lose hours trying to partition data and think about
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by IanOzsvald 12y ago
Glad you enjoyed it :-) If you have a moment, leaving a review (e.g. on Amazon) would be most appreciated (there's a dearth of views as it is a bit of a niche subject!)
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by IanOzsvald 12y ago
Much obliged (assuming that's directed at me!) - Radim's started with some rather nice talks too :-)
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by IanOzsvald 12y ago
Don't forget that the higher level functionality (e.g. the scikit-learn routines Radim uses) are typically wrappers for underlying C/Fortran routines and they're the real bottleneck. The relatively few lines of VM'd Pyth
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by IanOzsvald 12y ago
Consider Wikipedia->DBpedia->Wikidata->Wikipedia. First we had semi-structured human-readable information expressed using mediawiki's markup which was hard to parse automatically. Next the DBpedia project (and YAGO) created to
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by IanOzsvald 12y ago
I've just finished writing "High Performance Python" for O'Reilly (due August), we have a chapter on Lessons from the Field and one chap talks about his successful many-machine roll out of a complex production system usi
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by IanOzsvald 13y ago
Martin gave this paper as a talk at our PyData London conference this weekend (thanks Martin!), videos will be linked once we have them. He shares hard-won lessons and good advice. Here's my write-up: http://ianozsvald.com&
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by IanOzsvald 13y ago
HackerNewsLondon will occur tonight (in about an hour) http://www.meetup.com/HNLondon/ and if you turn up and blag your way in (you're meant to buy a ticket in advance, offer cash on the door to pay for your piz
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by IanOzsvald 13y ago
I'm working on an O'Reilly book using IPython Notebook, I'm basing my workflow on Olivier Grisel's script (with a couple of tiny fixes): https://github.com/ianozsvald/ipynbhelper which extracts the
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More Python 3.3 downloads than Python 2.7 for past 3 months(ianozsvald.com)
9 points by IanOzsvald 14y ago|1 comments
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Using NLTK+NetworkX to visualise #pydata #pycon conference tweets(ianozsvald.com)
3 points by IanOzsvald 14y ago|0 comments
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by IanOzsvald 14y ago
Not entirely true - my Dell E6420 is certified and yet had complications (poor Suspend support, touchpad had only basic support [now fixed 2 years later]). The NVIDIA GPU was supported as was sound/internet etc. I used the official Dell Ub
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by IanOzsvald 14y ago
I used to travel up from Brighton (1 hour on the train, about 1.5 hours each way all in), now I live in London (and work a 5 min walk from the event).
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by IanOzsvald 14y ago
I taught High Performance Python covering the tools you mention at PyCon 2012 (and EuroPython last year), maybe my videos+write-up will be helpful. I also cover profiling, shedskin, pyCUDA etc: http://ianozsvald.com/2012/03/18/high-perform
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by IanOzsvald 14y ago
I'll echo Simon - just submit a short proposal (I've posted 3 :-). New speakers are encouraged as they help the community to grow. Consider adding a Poster Proposal as a backup so you could still talk about your subject even if you don't ge
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by IanOzsvald 14y ago
As dagw mentions - treat it as a feature. I taught High Performance Python at PyCon, I've published all the src and a 55 page PDF covering a range of techniques to optimise a Mandelbrot example (including cython, shedskin, numpy, multiproce
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by IanOzsvald 14y ago
I did some AI consulting work with Forward last year along with Evgeny - lovely crowd, fast growing company, lots of projects. They've got a super-nice work environment too. Worth contacting if you're around North London.
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by IanOzsvald 14y ago
I'm also finishing StartupChile and 24pfilms is flat-sharing with us in Buenos Aires right now. We're returning to London for a while but Berlin is still on our list (nowhere else in Europe is on our list).
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by IanOzsvald 14y ago
Quick update today (Friday 29th) - I just spotted freestanding 'check in' finger print readers in the CMI coworking building. My guess is that registered folk get to walk through and everyone else has to explain their presence. It should be

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