Archives: Machine Learning

A Deep Investigation into MMAP Not Leaking Memory

September 28, 2022 by stas | No Comments | Filed in Machine Learning, Software Engineering
A Deep Investigation into MMAP Not Leaking Memory

A step-by-step demonstration of mmap not leaking memory even though it appears to be leaking memory like there is no tomorrow.

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Getting NVIDIA A100-80GB PCIe to work on a consumer motherboard with custom water cooling

April 14, 2022 by stas | 8 Comments | Filed in Machine Learning

For the last few months I have been trying to get A100 80GB PCIe to work on my desktop computer. The first stage was to get the card recognized by BIOS and then the OS which took quite some figuring out. The second stage was to get a custom water cooling solution, since A100 runs […]

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Play a Game to Understand The Learning in Machine Learning

January 28, 2020 by stas | No Comments | Filed in Machine Learning

This is an introduction article to Machine Learning, and its various concepts, that even a high-school student should be able to understand. We are going to play with blocks and through that game understand how Machine Learning works. The big news nowadays is Machine Learning (ML). But what is it? The machine part is obvious […]

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Authors of Aging Tech Books on Amazon Will Have Their Ratings Dropped

January 24, 2020 by stas | 2 Comments | Filed in Machine Learning, Marketing

TL;DR: Amazon has implemented a new strategy of giving old reviews a significantly lower weight than the newer ones. And should anybody post a single bad review as of recent, which would be normal for outdated tech books, that review will pretty much define the quality of the book (== terrible). Gaming reviews has been […]

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