Google Cloud Platform Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals Today I finished my first class in the Data Engineering on the Google Cloud Platform Specialization, “Google Cloud Platform Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals.” The first task of the day was Lab #6, “Carry out Machine Learning with TensorFlow v1.3”, and then a quiz. Frankly,... Continue Reading →
Up, Up and Away … GCP style
Today I wanted to use the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), since I have been spending so much time on AWS recently. I decided to build a very small web app with my go to stack: Python, Flask, Jinja, HTML, CSS and nothing else. I realized that I have not used Flask or Jinja in a... Continue Reading →
Counting & Binomial coefficients with scipy
My Discrete Math final is coming up on December 16. We had a midterm on Sunday, December 3. In the remaining two weeks, the class will cover 5 chapters. I am not sure how the professor will do this in our last 3 hour lecture, but he has taught this class before, so I know... Continue Reading →
Math is beautiful, Math is ugly
My discrete math class has allowed me to see math in a new way. Some days when I am doing homework, I think that math is beautiful -- it makes so much sense and it fits together in such a way that is akin to beauty. Then, there are other days when math is truly... Continue Reading →
Practice, Practice, Practice
Coding Doing Math with Python Today I finished the examples in the first chapter of the Doing Math with Python book. I wrote a few extra functions, based upon what was presented, to reinforce what I was learning. HTML video I have not used the video tag in HTML, so my goal today was to... Continue Reading →
Pivoting, Python and Product
Pivoting Currently, I am enrolled at Product School , working on a Software Product Management Certificate. Product management is a natural extension of my experiences and interests: engineering, marketing, and user experience/interaction. While I have worked on cross-functional teams to build products, the process was ill-defined and the tools were non-existent; our focus was on GSD,... Continue Reading →