Dec 27, 2022Member-onlyPost Lastpass Password ManagementPhoto by Roth Melinda on Unsplash Earlier this month LastPass revealed that they had been breached and then a few days later that that their customer’s encrypted password data was stolen. Following a couple of years of controversy including earlier breaches and price rises, this latest breach hasn’t been a…Security9 min readSecurity9 min read
Published in Filament-AI·Dec 16, 2022What’s your ChatGPT Strategy? Updating Your Organisation’s AI Strategy in a Post-ChatGPT WorldIf you are a business leader or decision maker, you have probably heard of or tried out ChatGPT over the last few weeks. You might even have thought about how you could built this technology into your business’ medium or long term strategy in order to benefit from the useful…AI6 min readAI6 min read
Published in Filament-AI·Mar 14, 2022Member-onlyPainless Explainability for NLP/Text Models with LIME and ELI5Introduction Explainability of machine learning models is a hot topic right now — particularly in deep learning where models are that bit harder to reason about and understand. These models are often called ‘black boxes’ because you put something in, you get something out and you don’t really know how that…Machine Learning19 min readMachine Learning19 min read
Apr 12, 2021Member-onlyAn opinionated guide to Python environments in 2021Note: If you don’t want to read the blah-blah context and history stuff then you can jump to the recommendations The Problem The need for virtual python environments becomes fairly obvious early in most Python developers’ careers when they switch between two projects and realise that they have incompatible dependences (e.g. project1 needs scikit-learn-0.21 and project2 needs scikit-learn-0.24). Unlike other mainstream languages like Javascript(Node.js) and Java (with Maven) where dependencies are stored…Python12 min readPython12 min read
Mar 1, 2021Member-onlyReproducing ‘ancient’ experiments with Pytorch inside dockerA beige analog compass by Ylanite Koppens Introduction Open machine learning research is undergoing something of a reproducibiltiy crisis. In fairness it’s not usually the authors’ fault — or at least not entirely. We’re a fickle industry and the tools and frameworks were ‘in vogue’ and state of the art a…Machine Learning4 min readMachine Learning4 min read
Published in Filament-AI·Dec 29, 2020Member-onlyServing NLP Models with MLFlowMLFlow is a powerful open source MLOps platform with built in framework for serving your trained ML models as REST APIs. The REST framework will load data provided in a JSON or CSV format compatible with pandas and pass this directly into your model. This can be handy when your…Mlops8 min readMlops8 min read
Nov 27, 2020DVC and Backblaze B2 for Reliable & Reproducible Data ScienceIntroduction When you’re working with large datasets, storing them in git alongside your source code is usually not an optimal solution. Git is famously, not really suited to large files and whilst general purpose solutions exist (Git LFS being perhaps the most famous and widely adopted solution), DVC is a powerful…Data Science8 min readData Science8 min read
Sep 4, 2020‘Dark’ Recommendation Engines: Algorithmic curation as part of a ‘healthy’ information diet.In an ever-growing digital landscape filled with more content than a person can consume in their lifetime, recommendation engines are a blessing but can also be a a curse and understanding their strengths and weaknesses is a vital skill as part of a balanced media diet. — If you remember when connecting to the internet involved a squawking modem and images that took 5 minutes to load then you probably discovered your favourite musician after hearing them on the radio, reading about them in NME being told about them by a friend. Likewise you probably discovered your…Machine Learning9 min readMachine Learning9 min read
Jul 26, 2020Open Source Productivity Automation with Joplin + Node-REDIn this article I’ll show you how to use free open source free and open source software to build productivity automation workflows to make Evernote and IFTTT jealous whilst keeping your data safely on your own machine(s). Introduction Many people are familiar with apps like Evernote and more recently Notion that…Productivity12 min readProductivity12 min read
Mar 20, 2020How can life find a way amidst COVID-19?TL;DR — just read the bolded bits! It might seem bleak if you turn on the TV or social media or even look outside the window you could be forgiven for thinking that maybe the world is ending. The media are painting an ever-bleak picture of the health crisis around…Covid 193 min readCovid 193 min read
