blog posts – dfalbel

Undertanding dynamic and static libraries symbol conflicts

Like most posts in this blog, I wrote this one to help me understand a topic better. They might be wrong or incomplete, so please let me know if you find any mistakes. I…

You can use torch on Google Colab notebooks

You can use torch on Google Colab notebooks. Here’s how you do it.

Configure ODBC drivers to work on MacOS

Installing and configuring ODBC drivers on MacOS so they work nicely with the odbc package is quite challenging.

Reticulate handling of NA’s - 2nd edition

In a previous blogpost we discussed how reticulate handles NA’s when converting R data.frame columns into pandas data.frames.

Reticulate handling of NA’s

There’s room for improving how reticulate handles missing values when converting between R and Python (pandas) data.frames. This documents highlights the current behavior…

Autoscaling self-hosted runners for GH Actions

This blogpost describes a service called ‘autorunner’ that’s now used in the mlverse organization to auto-scale self-hosted runners for GitHub actions.

Mac Mini as a headless server

This story is probably not interesting at all and too naive. You should definitely spend your time on something better than reading it but, I decided that I would like to…