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Writing from PicNet's engineers on AI, software, cloud and the systems Australian organisations run on.
Data Mining: The golden opportunity being ignored by most Aussie businesses
If you are in business you've probably heard of 'data mining'. Often discussed in the same breath as predictive analytics or machine learning, it is usually mentioned as the next big breakthrough for business. According…
Cloud is changing the IT Professional's Skills
The shift from "traditional" IT to cloud IT is well and truly underway. Many public, private organisations and government agencies are moving a part or all of their IT systems into the cloud. The move to the cloud has…
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How to build XGBoost on Windows - Now with GPU support
This is how I managed to build XGBoost on my environment: Install CMake CMake can be downloaded from here: https://cmake.org/download/ I downloaded the 64 bit zip file:…
Download XGBoost Windows x64 Binaries and Executables
[Edit]: It appears the XGBoost team has fixed pip builds on Windows. There are also nightly artifacts generated. As such, I hereby turn off my nightly builds. [Edit]: These builds (since 19th of Dec 2016) now have GPU…
Angular2 (NG2) Focus Directive
Requesting focus on an input field is surprisingly hard in angular2. Especially when the input field is inside a dialog or an *ngIf that is not initially visible. After much trial and error this is the solution I came…