One of the great things about the Internet is that people create all sorts of silly, but interesting, stuff. I was recently fascinated by a deep learning project where an app can classify images as “hotdog” or “not hotdog”. The project was itself inspired by a fictional app that appears in HBO’s show Silicon Valley,… Continue reading Is it Mila?
University is what you make of it
Being a developer in a position far removed from academia, I am often confronted with the question of whether my university degree was worth the effort or not. Or to put it more mildly: would I be where I am today without it. I usually arrive at the same conclusion: yes, it was definitely worth… Continue reading University is what you make of it
A year of stock and fund trading
A year ago, I started saving up by investing on the fund and stock market. In this post, I will share some of my learning, strategy (or lack thereof) and results from a year of fund and stock trading. I will skip a lot of small details and instead provide a high-level overview of what… Continue reading A year of stock and fund trading
Generating music with deep learning
Automatic, machine-generated music has been a small interest of mine for some time now. A few days ago, I tried out a deep learning approach for generating music… and failed miserably. Here’s the story about my efforts so far, and how computational complexity killed the post-rock. The spark of an idea When Photo Amaze was… Continue reading Generating music with deep learning
Change this:
listen 443 ssl;
to this:
listen 443 ssl http2;
Done… I wish all tech upgrades were this easy.