
Machine Learning Specialist
Patrick Deziel
Distributed Systems Engineer
Bio
Patrick Deziel is a distributed systems engineer and machine learning specialist. Patrick has extensive experience building and maintaining mission-critical systems in the private sector, as well as integrating modern ML solutions into existing applications. At Rotational, he designs and builds intelligent distributed systems to enable global use cases. In his free time, Patrick enjoys rock climbing and consuming science fiction.
Blog Posts Written by Patrick
PubSub 101 - Creating Data Flows With Topics
If you struggle to build analytics and models that keep up with changing data, it might be because you haven’t yet learned to think about data in terms of
topics
. In this module, learn how by solving a real-world, real-time problem!Nov 22, 2023PubSub 101 - Using the PyEnsign SDK
The Python SDK is the most popular way to use Ensign. In this module you will write some Python code to publish data to your project.
Nov 17, 2023PubSub 101 - Creating Your Project
Welcome to PubSub 101! In this module you will create a new Ensign account and a new project. After completing this module, you will have an API key that you can use to publish data to Ensign!
Nov 8, 2023Reinforcement Learning, Automation... and Tetris
Every time I’m writing complex rules in my code, I remember there’s a machine learning technique for this: Reinforcement Learning. RL models are able to learn the optimal rules given predefined rewards. Read on to learn how!
Nov 2, 2023Spooky `asyncio` Errors and How to Fix Them
You’ve heard the
asyncio
library unlocks concurrency for Python with minimal syntactical overhead, but the terminology makes you tremble! Don’t panic — here are 3 of the most common errors you will encounter and how to fix them.Oct 13, 2023Async or Swim: A Developer's Guide to Wading into Asynchronous Processing
The Go programming language provides powerful tools for managing concurrency, but robust asynchronous code requires us as developers to design around uncertain tasks and manifold queues. Step through an async codebase with us in this post!
Jun 5, 2023