SQL Server 2019 came out in preview a while ago, and the new features announced are just wonderful! A one-to-go-tool for all your big data needs: Unstructured and Structured data that can be processed using just one tool! But the most wonderful feature of all in my opinion are the...
Quantum requires a lot of Linear Algebra, so much even that it's very interesting to have a quick reminder about it. In here I will explain the basics of Linear Algebra that are needed to work with Quantum Computing. Basic Concepts Most often used in Quantum Computing are the so...
This is going to be quite a short post, but is more intended as reference :) Something I found to be quite interesting is sending emails through Databricks to warn me when something happened in parts of my code. After searching a bit, I came up with this code that would...
A common something that you want to do in Databricks is hide your passwords and other confidential information in it, because else it will all be visible within your notebooks and logs. Installing Databricks CLI Luckily Databricks allows us just this. But before we can get started, we first have...
When I tell people that I had 5 startups (yes, see my projects), worked for 2, graduated 1.5 years ago as a Industrial Engineer in Computer Science and straight out of school got hired at one of the largest tech firm, then people are always coming up with the...
Facebook decided to open-source the platform that they created to solve end-to-end Reinforcement Learning problems at the scale they are working on. So of course I just had to try this ;) Let's go through this together on how they installed it and what you should do to get this working...
Tags: Machine LearningReinforcement LearningQ LearningArtificial IntelligenceMonte Carlo Reinforcement Learning - An Overview of Today Reinforcement Learning took big leaps recently, so big that they are being used more and more in production environments (just think about Facebook using RL for its notification push system, or even for optimizing the bandwith...
In Belgium we every year celebrate the coming of "Sinterklaas" on the 6th of December, a celebration for children where this mythologic figure delivers presents for all the children that behaved well that year. (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinterklaas for more information). To follow this tradition, many companies...
One of the most common questions I get when talking with customers, is how they are able to set up a good big data architecture that will allow them to process all their existing data. With as an ultimate goal to perform advanced analytics and AI on top of it,...
