Mikio Braun's Blog
Over the past few months I started exploring AI coding agents, and piece by piece I've created a setup where I can now ship on my phone, from an ICE train over their flaky WiFi, going from idea to...
End of 2017 I moved away from my old blog - after more than a hundred posts, spanning 12 years. I went on to a wordpress hosted blog (margint.blog), then played with substack, and so on. But still,...
Hello Fellow Readers, I've set up a new blog at margint.blog and will continue posting there (hopefully more frequently than I did in the past two years). This blog here will stay around...
First posted on July 30, 2016 on medium . This version contains minor corrections and a few links. When I enrolled in Computer Science in 1995, Data Science didn’t exist yet, but a lot of the...
So this was definitely a long radio silence! Since I blogged last time, a lot has happened. I've quit my PostDoc job and joined Zalando , a big (the biggest?) European fashion retailer (revenue in...
In case you haven't heard yet, Data Science is all the craze. Courses, posts, and schools are springing up everywhere. However, every time I take a look at one of those offerings, I see that a lot of...
To make a long story short, I've decided to scale back my involvement with streamdrill. So what now?
Giving a one day tutorial on data science is something I've been considering in different contexts from time to time, but for different reasons it never really happened. Finally, last Friday, the...
When people ask whether some thing can be built on Hadoop or some other Big Data framework, they often overlook what building really means. So let's go through the steps involved in this to get an idea of the complexity.
Discussing with machine learning students it seems the two things they really need support for are linear algebra and long running compute tasks, and less dealing with massive data sets.