The Nordstrom Way

I recently finished reading the book, The Nordstrom Way to Customer Experience Excellence: Creating a Values-Driven Service Culture. The book is a lot more compelling than that ridiculously long title. It includes a lot of inspirational stories, but I wanted to share one story with you along with the one rule found in the employee handbook.

2nd Gen AMD Ryzen Supported RAM Speeds

Just like the original Ryzen CPUs, the 2nd Gen Ryzen processors from AMD support a range of different RAM speeds depending on a number of factors. This information is not easily accessible to the public, however, so we decided to put together a quick post with the information we received from our contacts at AMD.

Intel 8086K Processors

The Core i7-8086K is an 8th-generation microprocessor with six cores, 12 threads and a maximum clock speed of 5GHz. Experience Intels fastest processor ever by purchasing one of a limited supply of Puget Systems workstations powered by the special edition Intel Core i7-8086K processor.

Install TensorFlow with GPU Support on Windows 10 (without a full CUDA install)

In this post I’ll walk you through the best way I have found so far to get a good TensorFlow work environment on Windows 10 including GPU acceleration. I’ll go through how to install just the needed libraries (DLL’s) from CUDA 9.0 and cuDNN 7.0 to support TensorFlow 1.8. I’ll also go through setting up Anaconda Python and create an environment for TensorFlow and how to make that available for use with Jupyter notebook. As a “non-trivial” example of using this setup we’ll go through training LeNet-5 with Keras using TensorFlow with GPU acceleration. We’ll get a setup that is 18 times faster than using the CPU alone.