• Automating miniforge updates using Github Actions

   · 04 May 2021

  miniforge and its variants miniforge-pypy and mambaforge-* are the base installers for using conda with conda-forge as the default source for packages. They will provide you with a basic conda installation to get started. This means that as part of that, the newest installers should also bring the newest...

• The implications of pickling ML models

   · 26 Apr 2021

  When you have trained a machine learning model (pipeline), you will make predictions directly afterwards to assess its quality. When using the model actually for something useful, we also want to make predictions with it at a later point in time. This forces us to store the model to disk and think of a way to serialise it.

• Deploying conda environments in (Docker) containers - The Cheatsheet!

   · 03 Mar 2021

  Deploying conda environments inside a container looks like a straight-forward conda install. But with a bit more love for details, you can optimise the process so that the build is faster and the resulting container much smaller.

• Deploying conda environments in (Docker) containers - how to do it right

   · 01 Mar 2021

  Deploying conda environments inside a container looks like a straight-forward conda install. But with a bit more love for details, you can optimise the process so that the build is faster and the resulting container much smaller.

• Apache Arrow on the Apple M1

   · 11 Jan 2021

  In the previous blog post I explained how I got a well-working setup on my M1 MacBook. With that in place, I mostly worked on my main work setup running. But as a core Apache Arrow developer, I was also very eager to spend the extra mile and get Arrow (the C++ and Python part) working on the M1....