Intro to Threads and Processes in PythonCompeting in Kaggle’s Understanding the Amazon from Space competition, I started timing various parts of my code to see if I could speed things up. Speed is critical in Kaggle. Ranking well often requires trying hundreds of architectural and hyper-parameter combinations. Shaving 10 seconds off an epoch that lasts 1 minute is a huge win. To my surprise, I found data augmentation was my biggest bott
