Kenneth Steimel
Student of Computational Linguistics and High Performance Computing
I am a Computational Linguistics student at Indiana University.
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Mti
TLDR The parser can be found at https://parser.ksteimel.duckdns.org. What’s with the name? Mti ([m̩ti]) is the Swahili word for tree. This parser generates trees. Motivation My department in Linguistics had…
Scrapyard Deep Learning - Part 1
Motivation I am a PhD student in Computational Linguistics. As such I have both the need to experiment with deep learning frameworks and little money to build a powerful deep…
Building an AMD Deep Learning Machine - Software Stack
Operating System I used Ubuntu 19.04 partially because I wanted to try out the April release of Ubuntu and I knew that the newer kernels were more compatible with Vega…
Building an AMD Deep Learning Machine - Motivation and Hardware
Deep learning has historically been dominated by NVIDIA GPUs. The Nvidia CUDA API is a proprietary standard for writing code to run on graphics processing hardware. CUDA is tightly integrated…
Installing Rstudio on opensuse Tumbleweed
tldr: Using alien to install rstudio in opensuse tumbleweed works flawlessly. The main issue with installing Rstudio using the provided installer is that opensuse no longer ships with gstreamer 0.1….
Gaming on OpenSuse tumbleweed using parsec
Parsec is a piece of software that allows you to use a remote client, like a smart phone, android tv, or laptop, to game on a beefy host machine with…
Pypy and python speed comparison
For a project on maliciousness detection that I am working on, I needed an unsupervised stemming method. We were examining the role that text cleanup plays in the classification task….
Scikit-Leaern Random Forest Parallelism inside of GridSearch
Just wanted to give a heads up, with newer versions of scikit-learn (I believe starting with 0.20), the random forest implementation will use 1 job in the default setting as…
Luyia POS tagging results with 1000 runs
I ran 1000 iterations for each of the cross-language part of speech tagging experiments discussed in this paper. For each iteration, the training data was a different subsample of all…
Introduction presentation to Computational Linguistics
This is a presentation introducing what Computational Linguistics is at a high level. Keep in mind that this is for an undergraduate Introduction to Linguistics course. Some things are simplified…
How to install CSV.jl on Fedora
I attempted to install CSV.jl on Fedora with julia 0.7. However, there was an error in building CodecZlib.jl. The error message I got was │ ERROR: LoadError: LoadError: could not…
Sterling Engine
I recently moved and I finally found the glass pieces to my Sterling engine again. This little contraption is an engine that generates kinetic energy from any heat source. Here’s…
I upgraded my processors to dual e5-2680’s
I have upgraded the processors in my Quanta windmill to dual e5-2680’s. This has resulted in a rather large increase in linpack scores (pushing 306 GFLOPS now, while I was…
XGboost benchmarks
Running the benchmark scripts from xgboost with different tree settings on my new system with dual e5-2680’s and a 1050ti gives interesting results. exact: 385.617 gpu_exact: 365.375 When you compare…
Pictures from COLING 2018 in Santa Fe, NM
These are some pictures from my trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico for COLING2018. Most of these were taken at Bandalier National Monument to the North while others were taken…
My Roasting Process
I use a Freshroast SR 500 air roaster to roast my coffee. I wrote this bit to describe how I roast my coffee in this roaster. Hopefully, this will be…
Roasting Honduran SHG EP Santa Rosa
I bought 5 pounds of Honduran SHG EP Santa Rosa from Burman coffee traders about a month and a half ago. I’ve now roasted about 3 pounds of this. While…
Julia 0.7 released (mirror download provided)
Julia version 0.7 and 1.0 have been beta tested and released! The official downloads are available here. However, it seems like these are running a bit slow for me. I…
Processor upgrades for Quanta Windmill
I’ve just installed a 1050ti in one of the nodes of my Quanta windmill. I was able to get 59 fps at 1080p on the Tomb Raider benchmarks and 90+…
Roasting Indonesian RFA Balinese Kintamani
I have roasted about 2 pounds of Indonesian Bali Kintamani over the past month or so. This blog post is just a summary of my impressions of how well I…
Adding RSS support to Jekyll blog
I added RSS/Atom support to my jekyll-based blog (the one you’re reading right now). These instructions were all I did. To summarize, add gem ‘jekyll-feed’ to your Gemfile add the…
Completed Switch to Nginx
I now have all my services set-up using ssl and nginx reverse proxying. These are the services I’m currently running: This blog Personal Ampache server Nextcloud instance gitea instance r-shiny…
How to get rid of snaps from the ubuntu store
Problem: I didn’t want snaps to be the default method of install on ubuntu or fedora There’s no way to specify a ranking system with the gnome-software program (e.g. if…
Research Activities Spring 2018
I am working on integrating distantly supervised sentiment tweets into irony/sarcasm detection for tweets. Previous results that I’ve obtained have shown that the MPQA lexicon improved results during cross validation…
Part-of-Speech tagging in Wanga
I have my first results from using an SVM tagger on Wanga data extracted from the fieldworks corpus. They’re quite good. With only 1500 wanga words, noun class identification reaches…
Switch to Nginx
This is mostly for me to keep notes on what my status is. Maybe this will be changed into a how-to after I actually get this up and running. Working…
Pachyderm for NLP?
My problem I have developed quite a set up for doing machine learning and other tasks (80+ cpu cores and 150+ GB of ram combined). It is nice when the…
My Systems
I curently have the following machines running: DL 580 Generation 7 4 xeon e7-4860 processors 10 cores each at 2.26 Ghz 76 GB ram Debian 9 2 120 GB SSD…
Installing Proxmox on a Quanta Windmill v1
Every time I tried to install proxmox on a quanta opencompute windmill v1 with legacy bios, it failed. Typically there were errors after the install process with sudden freezing. The…
Supercomputing resources at IU
This is a presentation I put together about the compute resources available at Indiana University that graduate students have access to. The slides can be downloaded here
Install errors for ZMQ on julia
If you get errors installing ZMQ in a fresh ubuntu install (particularly a problem with the server version) sudo apt install libzmq-dev sudo apt install libtool pkg-config build-essential autoconf automake…