Software like everything is evolving but it is evolving differently than I thought. When I was studying computer science at the university I thought that the future was parallelism. We were taught only one class in parallel programming. Multi-core computers were on the rise and it seemed to be the thing to learn. Since then […]
Author Archives: Roc Reguant
Want to reduce the plastic usage? Try the wellness approach
We’ve been facing the problem of plastic usage wrong. Plastics cannot be recycled [1] and when they can be recycled it is not an easy straight forward process. Yet, everyone is using them out of convenience. They are cheap and nobody cares about the environment when it comes into conflict with their pocket. The solution? […]
Networking
Go to the bottom of your SMS and text people regularly something like: Hi Joe, It’s Roc here, we haven’t spoken in ages!! I hope you’re fine. What’s the latest with you? No rush on the reply Don’t skip people The same for emails. But search for random letters and see what the autocomplete in […]
Convert a mask into a Polygon for images using shapely and rasterio
Sometimes it is necessary to transform masks into polygons to use polygon operations. The way to transform a raster or a binary mask into a polygon is pretty easy. Most of the solutions I found online were the other way (from polygon to a mask). But for my project I needed to convert the mask […]
The moment you use euphemisms you lost the argument
Time at Risk
Time at Risk == Value at Risk (if we replace value by time) E.g. An insurance company’s 90% TaR is 3 year for liquidity risk – That means that for 3 years the insurer under the current financial structure would be 90% safe Time at Risk (TaR for short): is the maximum period of time […]
Calibration for deep learning models
Wikipedia’s definition for calibration is calibration is the comparison of measurement values delivered by a device under test with those of a calibration standard of known accuracy. Put in a context that means that the distribution of predicted probabilities is similar to the distribution observed probabilities in training data. If we rephrase it again means […]
Worth mentioning II: PhD survival guide, ergodicity, death after 75, content marketing, and email marketing
This is the continuation of the worth mentioning experiment where I shared links that I deemed important to be kept for future references. A graduate school survival guide: “So long, and thanks for the Ph.D!: On this essay Ronald Azuma states the path to a successful PhD defense. He states a few things that may […]
Europe can do better and you know it
Europe for many centuries has been the center of the world. The cradle of the current civilization and the spark that ignited the fire of industrialization. We got into a position where we got comfortable. Across many centuries European countries colonized the world leaving a huge mark still noticeable nowadays. But we got complacent. Luckily […]
Tired of self empowerment
We are living in a hyperventilated society. Entrepreneurs, makers, all of us. There was a time where truly big people were defined by their achievements in life, the accumulated experiences. Now, this has changed. It does not really matter anymore. Your current projection is what matters. What are you doing? Where are you going? Don’t […]