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Doubling your pay by doubling your masters degrees
personal
I graduated from Georgia Tech’s Online Master’s in Computer Science and they promoted me straight to the top.
Jan 6, 2025
Daniel Claborne
Diambra Agents on EC2 and Google Colab
machine learning
tools
Run some fighting game environments on an ec2 instance, retrieve experience for training an RL agent from Google Colab.
Oct 24, 2024
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Using MlFlow with Minio, Postgres, and Hydra.
machine learning
tools
Using mlflow with minio and postgresql as storage backends, and hydra to manage configuration and perform sweeps.
Jun 21, 2024
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Personal Updates, Flipping Coins (Bobgate)
personal
puzzles
Personal updates: PhD applications and OMSCS worries. Bonus: a puzzle about flipping coins.
May 11, 2024
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Lunar Lander with PPO
machine learning
reinforcement learning
I am a sick man who enjoys watching a little lunar module softly touch down on the surface in a simulated environment. See how to do it with PPO.
Jul 12, 2023
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Making Bagels With GPT-5
baking
machine learning
Somewhere in this blog I mentioned I would talk about baking? Ok here it is. Look at that bagel, mmmmmm. I got the recipe from GPT-5 which OpenAI has been sitting on since early 2023 and gave me early access to.
Apr 16, 2023
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Ant-v4 with DDPG
machine learning
reinforcement learning
Training a ‘spider’ to awkwardly walk to the right using DDPG.
Apr 13, 2023
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Pain, Suffering, Vector-quantized VAEs
machine learning
I’ve written before about both the gumbel-max trick and variational autoencoders. The world demanded a post that combined the two, so here it is.
Mar 14, 2023
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I Follow a GPT Tutorial
data science
machine learning
code
ChatGPT is cool and popular. GPT-3 is the starting point for ChatGPT. Lets write something about me training a little version of GPT-3.
Feb 1, 2023
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Dumb Mistakes Training Vision Transformer
data science
machine learning
code
Read about me fumbling around recreating vision transformer, one of the components of DALL-E/CLIP.
Jan 1, 2023
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Vectorize Your Sampling from a Categorical Distribution Using Gumbel-max! Use pandas.DataFrame.shift() more!
data science
code
Behind this disaster of a title lies the secret to quickly sample from a categorical distribution in python!
Nov 28, 2022
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Yet Another Explainer on Variational Autoencoders
machine learning
My attempt at explaining VAE’s in an effort to understand new text-to-image systems.
Nov 12, 2022
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FTX Blowup and Massive Egos on Twitter
news
crypto
I found the 2021-2022 crypto hype cycle and subsequent FTX collapse to be fascinating and infuriating. A couple people wrote books about it, I settled for a blog post.
Nov 9, 2022
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The blog lives. Blog blog blog.
news
A test of the new website, deployed on github pages. Errr, I guess this post can be about how I did it? Look, just follow this tutorial okay.
Nov 6, 2022
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