Aneesh Sathe

Today I discovered the Public Domain Image Archive attached to the Public Domain Review which has some great essays and commentary on image collections, like the one below. Utagawa Hiroshige: Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e # Just before Hiroshige died, possibly of cholera, he wrote the following poem: I leave my brush in the East And set forth on my journey. I shall see the famous places in the Western Land. This was a fortelling of sorts because Hiroshige

NVIDIA Project DIGITS # Around 2015 I was putting together funds in academia. Convincing IT, senior professors, and finance that yes, it was worth giving me a LOT of cash to build a workstation with multiple GPUs. … “No, it isn’t for gaming.” … “Yes, it will change the world.” … “No, there are no university rules that hardware bought multiple invoices across multiple departments can’t be used in the same box.” … “Yes, I’m aware that all my individual quotes are just below the bureaucracy summoning purchase limits.” … “Yes I tried random forest with the other stats and ML methods, this really …

Today’s product builders and data scientists shape the way people see the world. The analysis, plots, and UI we create are places where others dwell. Not merely occupy but live and harness the mental space we give them access to. Martin Heiddeger wrote Building Dwelling Thinking(archive.org) in his 1971 book, Poetry Language Thought. Man’s relation to locations, and through locations to spaces, inheres in his dwelling. The relationship between man and space is none other than dwelling, strictly thought and spoken

VMC: A Grammar for Visualizing Statistical Model Checks # Data Scientists check how well a statistical model fits observed data with numerical and graphical checks. Graphical checks have a huge range outside of the well knowns like Q-Q plots. Scientists are of course limited by their training and experience, and it’s not trivial to arrive at effective model checks. Both programmatic and visual plotting tools require significant effort to generate new plots increasing the friction to do proper checks. Work out of Jessican Hullman’s lab has created the VMC package (github) is a tool to easily …

Improving Research Through Safer Learning from Data # Another one of Frank Harrell’s posts. Given my day job, and the R&D background this one is quite close to home. As a team leader on the industry side one hopes to build a culture with the team that aligns scientific rigor with company goals. Any method, statistical or cultural (in this case both), that solves for this tension will get you the most bang for your buck.