Hawaii – Dec 2020
The holidays are typically not a particularly exciting time for me because my family lives far away and I’m usually by myself and holidays this […]
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Fall 2020 Activities
This fall has been full of outdoor activities. I’ve never biked and hiked more than in 2020. Indeed, regular biking and hiking has helped me […]
2020 Birthday
This year on my birthday, I did the Mary’s Rock hike in Shenandoah with a friend Ruth (who I had met a couple of months […]
Covid-19 Vaccines: And then there were three!
Today marked a major milestone in the fight against Covid-19. A UK grandmother become the first person in the world to be given the Pfizer […]
Deploying Ray on a local kubernetes cluster
In this post, I’ll show you how to run the Ray application covered in the previous post as a Kubernetes deployment running on a local […]
Election 2020: It’s over!
After many days of vote counting and Trump’s lead in the battleground states of PA, GA slowly shrinking until finally being overtaken by Biden, the […]
Election 2020: What an emotional roller-coaster
Election day 2020 was yesterday and votes are still being counted. Biden is on track to win 270 electoral votes if he maintains his lead […]
Speeding up Shapley value computation using Ray, a distributed computing system
This post shows how to set up a local Ray cluster consisting of several Ubuntu workstations connected over a home WiFi network and running a Directed […]
Kernel SHAP
In this post, I will provide the math for eliminating the constraint on the sum of Shap (SHapley Additive exPlanations) values in the KernelSHAP algorithm […]
Grand Canyon Rafting Trip Aug 2020
In this post, I’ll describe my experiences on a recently concluded 6 day, 5 night rafting trip down the Colorado river in the Grand Canyon […]