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Unsupervised Learning in Scala using Word2Vec
A pretty cool thing that has come out of recent Machine Learning advancements is the idea of "Word Embedding", specifically the advancements in the field made by Tomas Mikolov and his team at Google...
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Turn your GitHub Page into a Personalised Resume
A little while ago, I decided I wanted to update my CV, and figured given I was in tech it made sense for my CV to be online. I was aware of GitHub Pages - which give you a nice looking URL which...
View ArticleUsing OpenNLP for Named-Entity-Recognition in Scala
A common challenge in Natural Language Processing (NLP) is Named Entity Recognition (NER) - this is the process of extracting specific pieces of data from a body of text, commonly people, places and...
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Managing your personal finance (a Java webapp)
"Cash Rules Everything Around Me" - Method ManA few years ago I was fed up of how useless all the banks were at helping me understand my transactions/spending patterns with their online banking....
View ArticleFirst of the year
Ignoring global events, 2016 was an interesting year for me. Personally, I manged to achieve, and more importantly learn, quite a bit: I switched jobs, started learning Scala (full time), started...
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Building a RESTful API like a Product Manager
Something I have been thinking about for a while is the idea of APIs as your Product - the idea that you should design, build and test your API like it's a public facing product (as it might actually...
View ArticleAgile Machine Learning: From Theory to Production
Later this year, Sumanas and I will be co-presenting a talk about researching Machine Learning in an agile development environment at the JAXLondon conference. This is a high level overview of some of...
View ArticleIntro to Genetic Algorithms in Scala
This is intended to be quite a simple high level approach to using some of these ideas and techniques for searching solution spaces. As part of my dissertation back when I was in university, I used...
View ArticleGeneric programming in Scala with Shapeless
In my last post about evolutionary computing, I mentioned I started building the project partly just so I could have a play with Shapeless. Shapeless is a generic programming library for Scala, which...
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On Education: Let us play
Education is something that has been an interest to me for some time, and with a child currently going through primary school in the UK, it's something that I think about quite a lot, so this is...
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Conference updates: JAXLondon and W-JAX 2017
I have had the pleasure of closing out this year by speaking at two conferences. The first in October was JAXLondon, the second in November was W-JAX in Munich - the talk was titled "Agile Machine...
View ArticleAn opinionated guide to building APIs with Akka-Http
Akka-Http is my preferred framework for building APIs, but there are some things I have picked up along the way. For one thing, Akka-Http is very un-opinionated in its approach, there are often lots of...
View ArticleServerless with AWS Lambda & Scala
About a year ago, I started looking at AWS's serverless offering, AWS Lambda. The premise is relatively simple, rather than a full server running that you manage and deploy your docker/web servers to,...
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We need to talk about AI
Ethical and Regulatory questions facing AIRegardless of area of expertise, most of us are probably already aware of the momentum around Artificial Intelligence (AI). Between self driving cars, home...
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Monster dash - Making an android game with my son
At the start of last year, 2017, I set a resolution, of sorts, to build a mobile app with my older boy. He was just getting into playing games on mobile phones and tablets, and lots of them were just...
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JAXLondon 2017: Agile Machine Learning [VIDEO]
Last October a colleague and I gave a talk at the JAXLondon Conference about Machine Learning in an agile, commercial environment (I then also gave the talk again in November in Munich at the W-JAX...
View ArticleGeneric Programming with Scala & Shapeless part 2
Last year I spent some time playing with, and writing about, Scala & Shapeless - walking through the simple example of generating random test data for a case class.Recently, I have played some more...
View ArticleAPI Conf 2018 - Product Management for Engineers
Last week I attended and spoke at the 2018 API Conference in Berlin.Having written about the topic before, my talk was titled: Your API as a Product - Thinking like a Product Manager (really aimed at...
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Machine Learning with AWS & Scala
Recently, in an attempt to starting learning React, I started building an akka-http backend API as a starting point. I quickly got distracted building the backend and ended up integrating with both the...
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Kubernetes & Prometheus: Getting started
I have recently started working on a migration process to move our company deployments over to Kubernetes (from Fleet, if you were interested, which was at the time of dpeloyment a pretty cutting edge...
View ArticleYour API as a Product: Thinking like a Product Manager [VIDEO]
The video for the talk I gave at the 2018 API Conference is now available online.I have talked about a bit before, as well as sharing the slides, but one of my main take-aways is that we are all...
View ArticleRe-thinking the Visitor pattern with Scala, Shapeless & polymorphic functions
In this article I will look at a relatively boilerplate free way to traverse tree structures in Scala, using polymorphic functions along with Shapeless' everything function.Over the course of my...
View ArticleConfiguring Gradle publishing with AWS S3
Using S3 as a remote maven repository can provide a cost effective alternative to some of the hosted solutions available - admittedly you won’t get tooling like Artifactory sitting on top of the...
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How to make your Jekyll website blazing fast!
A few years back I used Jekyll and Github pages to create a one page CV/resume template site, it turned out to be one my most forked Github project and the blog post I wrote up about it one of the more...
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An overview: How to implement Google's Structured Data Schemas
As a result of working in web products (both personal and professional) I have become quite au fait with SEO from a technical point of view, and purely technical things you can do to put you in good...
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