In this week’s Friday Faves, we have Tensorflow 2 dropping and a beautiful bonus, next level physics-based ML, and a problem with a Harvard deep learning paper. Tensorflow 2 for Researchers Tensorflow 2.0 dropped this week and it has Eager Execution (read “normal behaviour”) per default and the Keras API per default. If you’re familiar […]
Tag Archives: Google
A Week in Tech Heaven – Googling in San Francisco [1/3]
So am I understanding this correct: You are here for a $1600 conference. And it’s not for work. This is your free time? Yes. I recently travelled to San Francisco to attend the Google Next conference. Clearly neither a scientific conference nor related to geophysics. And also clearly, the immigration officer was not particularly on […]
The Good, The Bad, The Weird – 2018 SEG Meeting
The SEG Annual Meeting 2018 in Anaheim, California has concluded. This was my first SEG and I can only compare it to the EAGE Exhibition and Conference I attended. There was light. There was shade. There were oddities. The Light Let’s talk about the light. You may have noticed that I am fully riding the […]
The True Size of Countries
The true size of countries changes our perception of the world. Maps have so many uses in modern society. Google Maps and the navigation included were the main reason I got my first smart phone. But maps have one significant flaw. Every map is a projection of a 3D object onto a 2D plane. That […]
