Andrew Carter

New blog post: Dealing with Needlephobia using Machine Learning. andrew.carterlunn.co.uk/programming/20…

There is no “golden era of F1”. There are good individual seasons slapped between mediocre to passable seasons that contain a great race or two and that’s only sometimes. The list of actual great races to boring ones is so skewed it’s not even funny

@nationalrailenq What's the first train that will run from Maidenhead to Paddington tomorrow morning? Thanks

ℹ️ #HayesHarlington - Network Rail engineers will undertake further repair work overnight, meaning NO Great Western Railway and Heathrow Express services will run in and out of London Paddington from approximately 22:00 until 06:00 tomorrow.

⚠️NEW: #HayesHarlington - Disruption between London Paddington and Heathrow Terminals / Reading until 07:30 nationalrail.co.uk/service_disrup…

@pipelinec_hdl Looks like a fun project, it's really good to hear that you found that repo useful. Thanks for the shout out!

Oh and finally thanks to @AndrewCarterUK for his wonderful MNIST Neural Network in Plain C as a starting point for someone very familiar with C, and not so familiar with machine learning github.com/AndrewCarterUK…

Check out this fun demo! Recognizing #MNIST digits using a neural network in #FPGA. 12K FPS inference state machine on a little Artix 7 dev board. All in an easy C look. What would you want to try next? #machinelearning #embedded Read the full write up: github.com/JulianKemmerer…

A new Signals and Threads, this one discussing memory management with the inimitable Stephen Dolan. The discussion was wide-ranging and enormously fun. I learned a ton! signalsandthreads.com/memory-managem…

Current predicament:

@daeken Pattern matching: abitofocaml.weebly.com/12-pattern-mat…

What programming language feature do you think should exist in every language?

@settermjd I use the i3 tiling window manager because it allows for really efficient management of space with keyboard shortcuts. The Regolith Linux distribution bundles it in with Ubuntu!

@CostaCoffee Think you should look at getting some warning signs up. If my customers were getting scammed like this I would be much more concerned.

@AndrewCarterUK Sorry Andrew. We aren't responsible for the parking outside of our stores. It will will a private parking company nominated by the landowner or local authority -Natalie

"If you care about latency, you shouldn't be using TCP" Great overview of the tech behind financial exchanges signalsandthreads.com/multicast-and-…

My yearly post on what the interns did this year. Some fun stuff! A library for writing Wireshark dissectors in OCaml, simulated annealing for sharding trading systems, and working on a complex migration for a deprecated regexp library. blog.janestreet.com/what-the-inter…

@blizzar01652583 (the course will talk you through how to do that and cover a lot of other topics too)

@blizzar01652583 Andrew Ng does a briliant introductory course to machine learning which is free on Coursera. I'd also recommend trying to implement linear regression and a neural network with a single hidden layer without using libraries just to make sure you understand the maths.

Beating the Bookmakers with #TensorFlow - andrew.carterlunn.co.uk/programming/20… - #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

@blizzar01652583 You could predict the two teams scores with two regression output variables. You might need some way to address that the home team score and away team score are not statistically independent.

@AndrewCarterUK In your guide you used a classification model. If I were to not only predict win, draw, loss but also the actual score, I would need to use a regression model, right?

@MikeRogers0 @asgrim Regolith Linux which is just Ubuntu with i3 and some other sensible UI defaults for productivity

Linux desktops users! What distribution are you using for dev work? // @asgrim

@unreal4u It's all under the PiPHP organisation so it doesn't need to move :) github.com/PiPHP - I don't really create big projects under my GitHub namespace for exactly this reason!

@AndrewCarterUK Oh nice you could find someone! Will you transfer the repo or will they create a new one? If so: could you share it please? Thanks for all the work!

I don't have time to maintain github.com/PiPHP/GPIO anymore (PHP library for the Raspberry Pi). It needs a bit of TLC and, as it still attracts interest from users, I plan on marking it inactive. If anyone would be interested in maintaining it instead, please let me know :)

@dr4goonis Use an auto scaling group to manage EC2 instances in an ECS cluster. Deploy using docker and AWS command line inside your CI.

What tools are you usung to deploy code to remote VMs such as EC2 servers ?