Sometimes you just need to do some face recognition and you don’t want to go through the hassle of developing a deep learning model, training it on thousands upon thousands of faces and tuning its hyper-parameters until it somewhat works. Sometimes you just need face recognition, right now. And I’ll...
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Introduction to Consensus Algorithms
When bored and talented engineers get all their real-life problems figured out and are searching for new exciting problems to solve, they all stumble upon this interesting field of computer science called - distributed computing.
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Introduction to Database Storage Engines
A storage engine is the underlying software component that a database management system (DBMS) uses to create, read, update and delete (CRUD) data from a database.
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Word2Vec Explained
Based on my previous post: Vector Representations of Words.
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Vector Representations of Words
For tasks like object or speech recognition we know that all the information required to successfully perform the task is encoded in the raw data. Humans can perform these tasks from the raw data for example. However, natural language processing systems traditionally treat words as discrete atomic symbols, and therefore...
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