Today’s AI research process resembles intelligent design more than it resembles evolution. Novel architectures are manually discovered by researchers. Is it possible to scale up genetic algorithms that perform neural architecture search using a dedicated blockchain network, designed with appropriate incentive systems? Motivation Intelligent Design vs. Evolution I’m no brain expert, but my understanding is […]
I’ve dreamed of installing solar panels on my roof ever since moving into my house last year. This week, my dream came true. What excites me most is how well the solar panels pair with my existing geothermal system. These solar panels will provide electricity, heating, cooling, and hot water – all carbon free. The […]
I’ve spent the last several months since launching the WP Auto Tag plugin searching for my next project. Building WP Auto Tag was a great learning experience, but I don’t see an immediate path to revenue for it without many more months of model building and React UI work. My goal for that project is […]
Today my new WordPress Plugin Automatic Tags was officially approved by and launched in the WordPress Plugin Directory. The plugin, which provides a suggested category to bloggers as they write articles, is now publicly available for all, for free. The Journey This launch is a major milestone in a journey that began almost a year […]
As part of my plan to build an open-source NLP tool for WordPress blogs, I have collected 750,000 articles from 100,000 WordPress blogs. I’m making the data available here for others to explore. Download The data is formatted as a gzipped CSV. The file size is 919 MB. Sample A sample view of the data […]
What is a taxonomy? A taxonomy is a system for classifying and organizing things. The canonical example is the classification system for organisms, which groups similar species together in a hierarchy. WordPress taxonomies WordPress is the popular blogging software which runs 35% of the internet in 2020, including this blog. It provides a framework for […]
It’s been two years since I last published content on the web. In April 2018 I sold the website that I spent 6 years building. I officially said goodbye to a tutoring community that in reality I had left years earlier when I started a career in data science. With that career now in full […]