This post introduces a proposal for a new keyword argument in the __init__() method of Pool named expect_initret. This keyword defaults to False, and when it is set to True, the return value of the initializer func»
We explore a common pitfall of the multiprocessing.Pool class: implicitly pickling large objects during the serialization of your multiprocessed tasks...»
We solve the problem how 'how to pass large data objects' to multiprocessing.Pool's worker processes using class attributes, a different flavor of global... »
This series of posts cover how to migrate DbSNP’s newly downloadable JSON files into a slimmed-down, relational database, containing population frequency data, associated pubmed IDs,... »
Part II of our adventure to warehouse a subset of DBbSNP’s JSON data picks up where Part I left off. Now that we have our... »
In Part II we parsed the JSON data found in the DbSNP JSON download. In Part III, we will bulk-insert this data into our PostgreSQL... »
In this post we introduce Newton’s Method, and how it can be used to solve Logistic Regression. Logistic Regression introduces the concept of the Log-Likelihood of... »
We’ve explored gradient descent, but we haven’t talked about learning rates, and how these hyperparameters are the key differentiators between convergence, and divergence. More specifically, let’s... »
In this post I aim to visually, mathematically and programatically explain the gradient, and how its understanding is crucial for gradient descent. For those unfamiliar, gradient... »
Flask-restless is a Flask extension providing generation of REST APIs from SQLAlchemy-defined database models. Flask-restless v1.0.0 introduces adoption of the jsonapi.org spec, providing additional features, consistent... »
Intro Flask is a versatile microframework capable of doing just about anything that you ask of it. Flask ships with Jinja2 as its HTML Templating Engine,... »