My superpower toolkit: TFRecorder, TensorFlow Cloud, AI Platform Predictions and Weights & Biases — I am just going to say it. I am absolutely overwhelmed and intimidated with the growing breadth and depth of machine learning (ML) today. Need to build a high performant data pipeline? Learn Apache Beam or Spark and protocol buffers Need to scale your model training? Learn AllReduce and multi-node…

A Framework to assess GPUs for your team — When I heard the term GPUs as early as 4 years ago my mind immediately turned to computer graphics and video games. Little did I know that GPUs had found their way into other fields including data and machine learning. GPUs started allowing machine learning (ML) researchers to run experiments…

Summary CatBoost, an OSS gradient boosting framework , is the new kid on the block with intriguing benchmark results on model quality and training/serving speeds with CPUs & GPUs Catboost is simple to run on Google Cloud’s AI Platform for both the Notebook & Training services. …