Personal blog of Jeffrey Luppes, Senior AI/ML Engineer writing about production machine learning, cloud infrastructure, NLP, and embeddings.https://www.jeffluppes.nl/https://www.jeffluppes.nl/blog/our-mlops-story/https://www.jeffluppes.nl/blog/our-mlops-story/Things we learned building an MLOps platform with limited means at DPG Media: SageMaker, MLflow, Terraform, and a team of two serving a dozen brands.Mon, 05 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMTBlogMLOpsML EngineeringMachine LearningCloudAWShttps://www.jeffluppes.nl/blog/thoughts-on-ml/https://www.jeffluppes.nl/blog/thoughts-on-ml/The ML Engineer title went mainstream, but MLOps never quite consolidated. Notes on the tooling sprawl and the platform we built at DPG Media.Sat, 08 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMTBlogML EngineeringMLOpsMachine Learninghttps://www.jeffluppes.nl/blog/finding-where-i-stand-in-data-science/https://www.jeffluppes.nl/blog/finding-where-i-stand-in-data-science/A fun exercise in text analytics on job postings and a resume, starring tf-idf and t-SNE, to find which data role actually suits my profile best.Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMTProjectsData ScienceWeb ScrapingNLPPythonhttps://www.jeffluppes.nl/blog/class-of-2015/https://www.jeffluppes.nl/blog/class-of-2015/I collected the job titles of the people I started my Computer Science degree with, to see where a cohort actually lands years later.Wed, 25 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMTProjectsLinkedInWeb ScrapingPythonData Analysishttps://www.jeffluppes.nl/blog/building-a-bird-detector-from-scratch/https://www.jeffluppes.nl/blog/building-a-bird-detector-from-scratch/I'm a terrible birder, so I set out to scrape 60,000 labelled bird photos and build a CNN classifier, with a Raspberry Pi as the eventual home.Tue, 21 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMTProjectsBirdingPythonWeb ScrapingMachine LearningDeep LearningRaspberry Pihttps://www.jeffluppes.nl/blog/gcp-data-engineer/https://www.jeffluppes.nl/blog/gcp-data-engineer/I passed the GCP Professional Data Engineer exam. A short note on the exam, why I took it, and how I studied for it.Sun, 22 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMTCloudGCPGoogleCertificationshttps://www.jeffluppes.nl/blog/surfsara-and-the-commoncrawl/https://www.jeffluppes.nl/blog/surfsara-and-the-commoncrawl/A free-format project on the SurfSara Hathi cluster: running Spark over 1.73 billion crawled web pages to build word clouds around kayaking.Fri, 07 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMTAcademicsUniversitySparkHadoopSurfSaraCommon Crawlhttps://www.jeffluppes.nl/blog/give-me-a-spark/https://www.jeffluppes.nl/blog/give-me-a-spark/Poking at a Kaggle housing dataset in Spark: loading 292 columns, running SQL over it, and hunting for the Kremlin in the data.Thu, 04 May 2017 00:00:00 GMTAcademicsUniversitySparkKagglehttps://www.jeffluppes.nl/blog/hadoop-and-the-hdfs/https://www.jeffluppes.nl/blog/hadoop-and-the-hdfs/A hello-world walk through Hadoop and HDFS: setting up a pseudo-distributed cluster and running the classic MapReduce word count on the complete Shakespeare.Wed, 22 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMTAcademicsUniversityMapReduceHadoophttps://www.jeffluppes.nl/blog/mapping-gritters/https://www.jeffluppes.nl/blog/mapping-gritters/The Dutch road authority put live gritter-truck positions behind an unadvertised API, so I logged it over time to map where they actually drive.Sat, 16 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMTProjectsPet ProjectJavaScriptWeb ScrapingMaps