The horror of horrors! I am that ancient in the land of software development? I have been messing around with React and realized that Model View Controller (MVC) isn’t a thing anymore. The evidence starts stacking up… People are starting to talk about moving on from MVC to “the new black”. Alas, some voice of …
Notes on understanding why Random Forests makes its decisions. Understanding Random Forests A good and visual explanation of how Random Forests works. Model Feature Importances Feature importances can be taken from Scikit-learn and Spark MLLib implementations after training. However, this explains features as a whole based on the training dataset. i.e. We are still …
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GitHub charges exorbitant prices for the storage of files on LFS. 50 GB on GitHub costs $5 a month 2000 GB on DropBox costs $9.99 a month GitHub is charging 20 times more per GB! Hence join the rebellion! Move your Git LFS files to DropBox and I hope this will force GitHub to lower …
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How many hidden layers? How deep should your neural network be? How large or deep a fully-connected neural network can or should be? All good questions, here we explore some answers. This book’s chapter takes the cake for how large or deep a fully-connected neural network can or should be: At present day, it looks …
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Some key points I like: Start working on your emotional health, now Save and invest as much money as you possibly can Find friends that are going somewhere in life Keep reading Find a workout regime that supplements your primary aim in life Instead of only associating exercise with “getting fit,” think of it as …
The post above examines current state-of-the-art (SOTA) models namely: ELMo USE (Universal Sentence Encoder) BERT XLNet It goes on to introduce different methods to evaluate those models based on the task at hand. A little explanation of why the models are different is also given. They did not state which version of USE was …
Being creative or artistic has long been the sole domain of humans. What if machines are able to be as creative? What if machines get better than humans at that? Allow me to show you some contemporary developments in Artificial Intelligence that might just challenge our assumptions in these four areas: Writing Art Music Problem-solving …
Krusader is a very useful file management application in the likes of the “legendary” midnight commander. Since I use my Macbook on OSX a lot, I accepted the challenge to get it to work on OSX 10.14 Mojave. There are 5 things to do here: Use Macports to compile krusader (This will fail as you …
What is the underlying focus of a KPI? It could be a telltale sign of the organization’s culture. The following post is a riveting and sometimes incriminating commentary on how relationship-based goals in an organization can prevent alienation of the people most important to it, namely: Employees Customers Partners Management A handy “test” is included …
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How about digital blackboards? I am going to try digital blackboard presentations for a bit to see how that goes largely because research shows that fancy Powerpoint presentations help the audience retain more information than “old-school” teaching methods. Kind of like this: Personally, I have seen my share of Powerpoint presentations that make me absorb …
