Z-score for anomaly detection

Small-bites data science

Shelved: Pink Floyd's Household Objects - Longreads

On Syd Barrett's time with Pink Floyd and making an album with household objects and found sounds.

Multi-Armed Bandits and the Stitch Fix Experimentation Platform

We've recently built support for multi-armed bandits into the Stitch Fix experimentation platform. This post will explain how and why.

https://www-bloomberg-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2020-09-09/lightmatter-startup-tries-to-speed-up-comput…

The Beginners’ Guide to Elasticsearch — Part 1

A brief introduction to Elasticsearch

Chip Industry: Events

Here are the upcoming events in the semiconductor industry.

Writing a Production-Level Machine Learning Framework: Lessons Learned

Some of our insights from developing a PyTorch framework for training and running deep learning models …

DDR4 Makes Headway Even with DDR5 Modules on Its Heels

With no definitive release date for DDR5, DDR4 is making significant strides.

GitHub CLI 1.0 is now available

GitHub CLI brings GitHub to your terminal. It reduces context switching, helps you focus, and enables you to more easily script and create your own workflows. Earlier this year, we…

AlphaGo Zero Explained In One Diagram

One infographic that explains how Reinforcement Learning, Deep Learning and Monte Carlo Search Trees are used in AlphaGo Zero.

From inspiration to idea sex: how to generate ideas on demand

How do creators find ideas to write about? Poets, artists, and authors alike have been wondering about the source of our inspiration for millennia. But what's the difference between inspiration and idea sex?

10 Normality Tests-Python (Step-By-Step Guide 2020)

Normality tests to check if a variable or sample has a normal distribution.

https://blog.exxactcorp.com/autograd-the-best-machine-learning-library-youre-not-using/

AI Papers to Read in 2020

Reading suggestions to keep you up-to-date with the latest and classic breakthroughs in AI and Data Science

AI devs created a lean, mean, GPT-3-beating machine that uses 99.9% fewer p

AI researchers from the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) of Munich have developed a bite-sized text generator capable of besting OpenAI’s state of the art GPT-3 using only a tiny fraction of its parameters. GPT-3 is a monster of an AI sys

How TikTok recommends videos #ForYou

TikTok's mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. We're building a global community where you can create and share authentically, discover the world, and connect with others. The For You feed i

What is Vagrant? - DevOps Library

TamaGo - bare metal Go for ARM SoCs

TamaGo - ARM/RISC-V bare metal Go.

Python Pro Tip: Start using Python defaultdict and Counter in place of dictionary

How you could use defaultdict and Counter to make your code short and readable

The Art of Clearing A Sample: Deciding If It’s Worth It and How To Actually Do It

Written by Karl Fowlkes,this post offers a great rundown of clearing a sample and everything that comes with it. (Thanks, Karl!) Let’s dive in…

The Architecture of Open Source Applications: LLVM

Python behind the scenes #2: how the CPython compiler works

In the first post of the series we've looked at the CPython VM. We've learned that it works by executing a series of instructions called bytecode....

Why Data Standards Matter

The power of join keys and how data standards can make data more valuable and accelerate collaboration and innovation. This is the second installment of the DaaS Bible series.

Causal Inference Book | Miguel Hernan | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public

Jamie Robins and I have written a book that provides a cohesive presentation of concepts of, and methods for, causal inference. Much of this material is currently scattered across journals in sever…

https://blog.thundra.io/do-you-really-need-kubernetes

Create and Deploy your First Flask App using Python and Heroku

Flask is a straightforward and lightweight web application framework for Python applications. This guide walks you through how to write an application using Flask with a deployment on Heroku.

Deploy Angular Apps to Firebase From GitHub

How to create simple CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments

Performance analysis & tuning on modern CPU - DEV Community ?‍??‍?

They say "performance is king'... It was true a decade ago and it certainly is now. With more and mor...

Making Python Programs Blazingly Fast

Let’s look at the performance of our Python programs and see how to make them up to 30% faster!

ReactJS Python Flask on Heroku

Making a Framework for API Development and Deployment

AI Democratization in the Era of GPT-3

What does Microsoft getting an "exclusive license" to GPT-3 mean for the future of AI democratization?

Vectorizing code matters

I come from the world of MATLAB and numerical computing, where for loops are shorn and vectors are king. During my PhD at UVM, Professor…

Pytest for Data Scientists

A Comprehensive Guide to Pytest for your Data Science Projects

A Gentle Introduction to Information Entropy - MachineLearningMastery.com

Information theory is a subfield of mathematics concerned with transmitting data across a noisy channel. A cornerstone of information theory is the idea of quantifying how much information there is in a message. More generally, this can be used to quantify the information in an…

How to Calculate the KL Divergence for Machine Learning - MachineLearningMastery.com

It is often desirable to quantify the difference between probability distributions for a given random variable. This occurs frequently in machine learning, when we may be interested in calculating the difference between an actual and observed probability distribution. This can…

Kullback–Leibler divergence

In mathematical statistics, the Kullback–Leibler (KL) divergence (also called relative entropy and I-divergence[1]), denoted D KL ( P ∥ Q ) {\displaystyle D_{\text{KL}}(P\parallel Q)} , is a type of statistical distance: a measure of how one reference probability…

Wendy's - Soviet Fashion Show (1985, USA) - YouTube

Rumor has is this ad was banned for being offensive. However, this was not the only spot to poke fun at Soviet Russia at the time. Directed by Joe Sedelmaier.

How to properly manage SSH keys for server access

This article was on the hacker news frontpage. You can find the related discussion here. Every developer needs access to some servers for example to check the application logs. Usually, this is done using public-private key encryption where each developer generates their own…

Verification Of Multi-Cycle Paths And False Paths

Single-clock design is not always as easy as it seems.

Latent Dirichlet Allocation: Intuition, math, implementation and visualisat

A tour of one of the most popular topic modelling techniques and a guide to implementing and visualising it using pyLDAvis

XGBoost, LightGBM, and Other Kaggle Competition Favorites

An Intuitive Explanation and Exploration

Reinforcement Learning frameworks

Proximal Policy Optimization using RLlib-Ray

An Intuitive Guide to LSTMs

by creating them from scratch

10 Hyperparameter optimization frameworks.

Tune your Machine Learning models with open-source optimization libraries

14 Tools to Sell on Facebook and Instagram

Shopping on Facebook and Instagram is finally here. With the recent launches of Shops on both apps and Live Shopping, Facebook is facilitating easier commerce across its platform. Here is a list of tools to help you sell on Facebook and Instagram.

Six Python Tips for Geospatial Data Science

How to easily and effectively incorporate spatial features in Python using Geopandas

Geospatial Indexing with Quadkeys

Squaring the Earth

Part 7: Fast Pattern Searching with STUMPY

Finding Similar Subsequences for Known Patterns

Manage Files and Database Connections in Python Like a Pro

How to manage external resources in Python with your custom context managers

C the Good Parts

Jordan DeLong overviews the past, current and near future "good parts" of C++'s functional side through the colored lens of his biases.