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Intel Core-i9 7900X and 7980XE Skylake-X Linux Linpack Performance
Written on October 10, 2017 by Dr Donald KinghornIntel Core-i9 7900X and 7980XE are very good desktop processors for mathematical computing workloads. This post is a short listing of results for the Linpack benchmark which is still my personal favorite CPU performance metric.
Beginning with Machine Learning and AI
Written on September 14, 2017 by Dr Donald KinghornI can't think of of trending field of scientific research that has ever been better suited for "beginners" than Machine Learning and AI. Even though the field has been around for decades it feels like day one. There is now a perfect convergence of resources to facilitate the learning and doing of Machine Learning.
Machine Learning and Data Science: Multinomial (Multiclass) Logistic Regression
Written on August 18, 2017 by Dr Donald KinghornThe post will implement Multinomial Logistic Regression. The multiclass approach used will be one-vs-rest. The Jupyter notebook contains a full collection of Python functions for the implementation. An example problem done showing image classification using the MNIST digits dataset.
Machine Learning and Data Science: Logistic Regression Examples-1
Written on August 14, 2017 by Dr Donald KinghornThis post will be mostly Python code with implementation and examples of the Logistic Regression theory we have been discussing in the last few posts. Examples include fitting to 2 feature data using an arbitrary order multinomial model and a simple 2 class image classification problem using the MNIST digits data.
Machine Learning and Data Science: Logistic Regression Implementation
Written on August 5, 2017 by Dr Donald KinghornIn this post I'll discuss evaluating the "goodness of fit" for a Logistic Regression model and do an implementation of the formulas in Python using numpy. We'll look at an example to check the validity of the code.
Machine Learning and Data Science: Logistic and Linear Regression Regularization
Written on July 31, 2017 by Dr Donald KinghornIn this post I will look at "Regularization" in order to address an important problem that is common with implementations, namely over-fitting. We'll go through for logistic regression and linear regression. After getting the equations for regularization worked out we'll look at an example in Python showing how this can be used for a badly over-fit linear regression model.
Machine Learning and Data Science: Logistic Regression Theory
Written on July 21, 2017 by Dr Donald KinghornLogistic regression is a widely used Machine Learning method for binary classification. It is also a good stepping stone for understanding Neural Networks. In this post I will present the theory behind it including a derivation of the Logistic Regression Cost Function gradient.
Machine Learning and Data Science: Linear Regression Part 6
Written on July 15, 2017 by Dr Donald KinghornThis will be the last post in the Linear Regression series. We will look at the problems of over or under fitting data along with non-linear feature variables.
Machine Learning and Data Science: Linear Regression Part 5
Written on July 4, 2017 by Dr Donald KinghornIn this post I will present the matrix/vector form of the Linear Regression problem and derive the "exact" solution for the parameters.
Machine Learning and Data Science: Linear Regression Part 4
Written on June 15, 2017 by Dr Donald KinghornIn this post I'll be working up, analyzing, visualizing, and doing Gradient Descent for Linear Regression. It's a Jupyter notebook with all the code for plots and functions in Python available on my github account.
Machine Learning and Data Science: Linear Regression Part 3
Written on June 10, 2017 by Dr Donald KinghornIn Part 3 of this series on Linear Regression I will go into more detail about the Model and Cost function. Including several graphs that will hopefully give insight into the their nature and serve as a reference for developing algorithms in the next post.
Machine Learning and Data Science: Linear Regression Part 2
Written on June 2, 2017 by Dr Donald KinghornIn Part 2 of this series on Linear Regression I will pull a data-set of house sale prices and "features" from Kaggle and explore the data in a Jupyter notebook with pandas and seaborn. We will extract a good subset of data to use for our example analysis of the linear regression algorithms.
Machine Learning and Data Science: Linear Regression Part 1
Written on May 26, 2017 by Dr Donald KinghornLinear regression could possibly be considered the "Hello World" problem of Machine Learning. It's implementation touches on many of the fundamental ideas and problems in this field. I'll give you some guidance for understanding and implementation of this fundamental idea.
Machine Learning and Data Science: Introduction
Written on April 28, 2017 by Dr Donald KinghornThis is the start of a series of posts on Machine Learning and Data Science. I'll be exploring the algorithms and tools of Machine Learning and Data Science. It will be tutorials, guides, how-to, reviews and "real world" application. The post will be done using Juypter notebooks and the notebooks will be available on GitHub.
Docker and NVIDIA-docker on your workstation: Integration with your Desktop
Written on April 26, 2017 by Dr Donald KinghornI've been doing this series of posts about setting up Docker for your desktop system, so why not literally add containers to your desktop! The way we have Docker configured, containers are the same as other applications you run. In this post I'll show you how to add icons and menu items to launch containers.
TitanXp vs GTX1080Ti for Machine Learning
Written on April 14, 2017 by Dr Donald KinghornNVIDIA has released the Titan Xp which is an update to the Titan X Pascal (they both use the Pascal GPU core). They also recently released the GTX1080Ti which proved to be every bit as good at the Titan X Pascal but at a much lower price. The new Titan Xp does offer better performance and is currently their fastest GeForce card. How much faster? I decided to find out by running a large Deep Learning image classification job to see how it performs for GPU accelerated Machine Learning.
Docker and Nvidia-Docker on your workstation: Common Docker Commands Tutorial
Written on April 7, 2017 by Dr Donald KinghornDocker can be complex but for use on single-user-workstation you can get a lot done with just a few commands. This post will go through some commands to manage your images and containers. We will also go through the process of building a docker image for CUDA development that includes OpenGl support.
How to Install Anaconda Python and First Steps for Linux and Windows
Written on March 28, 2017 by Dr Donald KinghornA few weeks ago I wrote a blog post titled Should You Learn to Program with Python. If you read that and decided the answer is yes then this post is for you.
Docker and NVIDIA-docker on your workstation: Using Graphical Applications
Written on March 21, 2017 by Dr Donald KinghornYou can use graphical application with Docker and NVIDIA-Docker by attaching your X-Window server socket to a container. And, it can be done in a relatively safe and secure way. I will take advantage of the Docker security and usability enhancements from the configuration with User-Namespaces that we setup in the previous post and show you how to run a CUDA application with OpenGL output support.
NVIDIA GTX 1080Ti Performance for Machine Learning -- as Good as TitanX?
Written on March 14, 2017 by Dr Donald KinghornHow good is the NVIDIA GTX 1080Ti for CUDA accelerated Machine Learning workloads? About the same as the TitanX! I ran a Deep Neural Network training calculation on a million image dataset using both the new GTX 1080Ti and a Titan X Pascal GPU and got very similar runtimes.
Docker and NVIDIA-docker on your workstation: Setup User Namespaces
Written on March 10, 2017 by Dr Donald KinghornIn this third post on Docker and Nvidia-Docker we will configure "kernel user namespaces" for use with Docker. This will increase the security and usability of Docker on your desktop. This is a relatively new feature in Docker and is a key component for the viability of "Docker on your workstation".
Should You Learn to Program with Python
Written on March 2, 2017 by Dr Donald KinghornThe short answer to that question is, yes. If you want to know why you would want to do that then read on.
Docker and NVIDIA-docker on your workstation: Installation
Written on February 24, 2017 by Dr Donald KinghornIn this second post on Docker and Nvidia-Docker we will do an install and setup on an Ubuntu 16.04 workstation.
Docker and NVIDIA-docker on your workstation: Motivation
Written on February 16, 2017 by Dr Donald KinghornDocker containers together with the NVIDIA-docker can provide relief from dependency and configuration difficulties when setting up GPU accelerated machine learning environments on a workstation. In this post I will discuss motivation for considering this.
NVIDIA Quadro GP100 Tesla P100 power on your desktop
Written on February 5, 2017 by Dr Donald KinghornNVIDIA has released the Quadro GP100 bringing Tesla P100 Pascal performance to your desktop. This new card gives you the compute performance of the NVIDIA Tesla P100 together with Quadro display capability. That means full double precision floating point capability of the P100 and NVLINK for multiple cards.