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Matplotlib: Pyplot By Example

05 Oct 2017   Examples for common operations on PyPlot, like changing figure size, changing title and tick sizes, changing legends, etc.

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Paper Summary: WSABIE: Scaling Up To Large Vocabulary Image Annotation

05 Oct 2017   Summary of the 2011 article "WSABIE: Scaling Up To Large Vocabulary Image Annotation" by Weston et al.

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Paper Summary: Recursive Neural Language Architecture for Tag Prediction

05 Oct 2017   Summary of the 2016 article "Recursive Neural Language Architecture for Tag Prediction" by Kataria.

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Thoughts on App Monetization with Examples from Popular Apps

05 Oct 2017   A couple of thoughts on what approaches seem to work best when optimizing monetization on web/mobile apps. Tips include: Focus on the First Purchase, Mix Free and Paid Features on the same interface, Give away freebies consistently.

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Parallel For Loops in Python: Examples with Joblib

02 Oct 2017   Joblib.Parallel is a simple way to spread your for loops across multiple cores, for parallel execution.

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How to Make Gif Animations from Screencasts on Ubuntu

01 Oct 2017   To make short gif-videos on Ubuntu, you can use Kazam for the Screencasts and then Gifify to turn those videos into gif animations.

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How to Change the Default Application for a given Extension on Ubuntu

01 Oct 2017   Change the default applications used by certain file extensions.

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Paper Summary: Translating Embeddings for Modeling Multi-relational Data

01 Oct 2017   Summary of the 2013 article "Translating Embeddings for Modeling Multi-relational Data" by Bordes et al.

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Feature Scaling: Quick Introduction and Examples using Scikit-learn

27 Sep 2017   Feature Scaling techniques (rescaling, standardization, mean normalization, etc) are useful for all sorts of machine learning approaches and critical for things like k-NN, neural networks and anything that uses SGD (stochastic gradient descent), not to mention text processing systems.

Included examples: rescaling, standardization, scaling to unit length, using scikit-learn.

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Matplotlib, Pyplot, Pylab etc: What's the difference between these and when to use each?

26 Sep 2017   Do you often get confused with terms like maptlotlib, pyplot, pylab, figures, axes, gcf, gca, etc and wonder what they mean? Matplotlib is the toolkit, PyPlot is an interactive way to use Matplotlib and PyLab is the same thing as PyPlot but with some extra shortcuts.

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