Normalize Text for Natural Language Processing Tasks: Reference and Examples
02 May 2021 A couple of common preprocessing tasks you need in order to be able to use raw text in NLP tools.
Bash examples: redirecting output, error, input, etc
25 Apr 2021 Examples on how to redirect the ouutput of commands and scripts to files, STDOUT, STDERR, etc.
Read More ›Git-LFS: Reference and Examples
11 Apr 2021 Common tasks and examples related to using Github's LFS (Large File Storage) functionality
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Project Review: Generating Article Titles from Keywords
31 Mar 2021 Another project summary, this time for a client who needed an API-accessible ML system to generate text to be used as article titles, given a keyword as input.
Working with Functions in Bash: Reference and Examples
31 Mar 2021 Simple examples and common use cases for functions in shell scripting using bash (bourne-again shell).
Read More ›Markdown cheatsheet and Reference: Using Images
31 Mar 2021 Quick cheatsheet with common fixes to use images in markdown documents, such as github READMEs.
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Features in Boosted Tree Algorithms: Engineering, Encoding, Interaction, etc
30 Mar 2021 How to encode and engineer features correctly for use in tree boosting algorithms? How are features allowed to interact and sort of information do data scientists need to provide via manual engineering? How?
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Paper Summary: The Precision-Recall Plot Is More Informative than the ROC Plot When Evaluating Binary Classifiers on Imbalanced Datasets
29 Mar 2021 Summary of the 2015 article "The Precision-Recall Plot Is More Informative than the ROC Plot When Evaluating Binary Classifiers on Imbalanced Datasets" by Saito and Hemsmeier.
The Great Financial Crisis was Triggered by a Series of Unrelated Factors
21 Mar 2021 Thoughts on the Great Financial Crisis. Techy summary of the book "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Read More ›Splunk Regular Expressions: Rex Command Examples
21 Mar 2021 Examples of common use cases and for Splunk's rex command, for extracting and matching regular expressions from log data.
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