PyTorch

Run PyTorch locally or get started quickly with one of the supported cloud platforms

Handling ‘Happy’ vs ‘Not Happy’: Better sentiment analysis with sentimentr

Sentiment Analysis is one of the most obvious things Data Analysts with unlabelled Text data (with no score or no rating) end up doing in an attempt to extract some insights out of it and the same Sentiment analysis is also one of the potential research areas for any NLP…

10 Useful Git Tips

In this tutorial we share with you a collection of tips that will help you manage your git repositories.

Image Processing and Manipulation with magick in R

‘ImageMagick’ is one of the famous open source libraries available for editing and manipulating Images of different types (Raster & Vector Images). magick is an R-package binding to ‘ImageMagick’ for Advanced Image-Processing in R, authored by Jeroen Ooms. magick supports many…

AB - Introduction to Gaussian Processes - Part I

Alex Bridgland blog/posts.

When to Track on the Client vs. Server

When deciding whether to track users on the server or on the client, there are many gotchas and factors to consider. Here is a short guide with pros and cons of each.

Top-100-Data-science-interview-questions

Data science, also known as data-driven decision, is an interdisciplinery field about scientific methods, process and systems to extract knowledge from data in various forms, and take descision based on this knowledge. A data scientist should not only be evaluated only on…

The Generalized Specialist: How Shakespeare, Da Vinci, and Kepler Excelled

Should we generalize or specialize? This article explores how Shakespeare and Da Vinci excelled by branching out from their core competencies.

After Six Decades in the Vault, 'Ella at Zardi's' Brings New Shine to Ella

Ella Fitzgerald was a big star on the cusp of something bigger when she began an engagement at Zardi’s Jazzland, in the heart of Hollywood, during the…

A 2017 Latin Grammy Preview From 'Alt.Latino'

A look ahead at the 18th annual Latin Grammy Awards.

Visualizing classifier thresholds | R-bloggers

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the connection between prediction models and the decisions that they influence. There is a lot of theory around this, but communicating how the various pieces all fit together with the folks who will use and be impacted by these decisions…

How to plot basic maps with ggmap

A tutorial for using ggmap to plot basic maps in R, by using images from Google Maps as a ggplot layer.

Data Visualization – Part 2

Stay up-to-date on the latest data science and AI news in the worlds of artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, implementation, and more.

The pains of growing a platform - Inside Intercom

Hundreds of startups are pitching themselves as "platforms". While platforms make compelling businesses, they're nearly impossible to create from scratch.

Arbitrary Data Transforms Using cdata

We have been writing a lot on higher-order data transforms lately: Coordinatized Data: A Fluid Data Specification Data Wrangling at Scale Fluid Data Big Data Transforms. What I want to do now is "write a bit more, so I finally feel I have been concise." The cdata R package…

Tips for A/B Testing with R

Which layout of an advertisement leads to more clicks? Would a different color or position of the purchase button lead to a higher conversion rate? Does a special offer really attract more customers – and which of two phrasings would be better? For a long time, people have…

Why you should read Nina Zumel’s 3 part series on principal components anal

Short form: Win-Vector LLC’s Dr. Nina Zumel has a three part series on Principal Components Regression that we think is well worth your time. Part 1: the proper preparation of data (including…

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Doctors: Christmas in the I.C.U.

There’s an illusion that if you want something enough, even something as fantastical as avoiding death, you might just get it.

Personal Infrastructure

An overview of my personal infrastructure and services I host.

Five Ruby Methods You Should Be Using

Here’s a look at some lesser-known Ruby methods that solve specific types of problems very well.

Explorer: In the California Desert: Vast Darkness, Vibrant Music, an Oasis

In Wonder Valley, the silence makes its own kind of noise. And Twentynine Palms makes its own kind of music.

How the Japanese Practice of “Forest Bathing”—Or Just Hanging Out in the Wo

When the U.S. media began reporting on the phenomenon of “forest bathing” as a therapy for mental and physical health, the online commentariat—as it will—mocked the concept relentlessly as yet another pretentious, bourgeois repackaging of something thoroughly mundane.

Friction – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

The Internet has removed friction: that means a whole new set of possibilities; it doesn’t mean they are all good.

A Gentle Introduction to Exploding Gradients in Neural Networks

Exploding gradients are a problem where large error gradients accumulate and result in very large updates to neural network model weights during training. This has the effect of your model being unstable and unable to learn from your training data. In this post, you will…

GAME THEORY FOR MANAGERS

This book, written in an interactive manner and easy-to-comprehend style, explicates the concepts of game theory. It enables the readers to think strategically in interactions that they may encounter as managers. The book innovatively cites real-world scenarios to highlight the…

From Product/Market Fit to Language/Market Fit: A New Brand Storytelling Fr

LIKE THIS ARTICLE SO FAR? THEN YOU’LL REALLY WANT TO SIGN UP FOR MY NEWSLETTER. IT’S DELIVERED ONCE A WEEK AND PACKED WITH IDEAS ON…

Revealed: The Secrets Of One Of The World's Dirtiest Banks And Its Powerful

Blatant forgery. Snarling guard dogs. Shredded evidence. An incendiary cache of leaked documents reveals the farcical scramble inside one of the world’s dirtiest banks to conceal incriminating information from US government investigators – while some of the most prestigious…

Google revamps its SEO Starter Guide

This is the first update of the SEO starter guide in several years.

The Food Lab's 20 Most Influential Food Books

These books shaped us into the cooks we are today.

The minds of plants

From the memories of flowers to the sociability of trees, the cognitive capacities of our vegetal cousins are all around us

5 Tricks When A/B Testing Is Off The Table

Data Science, Machine Learning, AI & Analytics

Class Methods In Ruby: a Thorough Review & Why I Define Them Using class

Class methods are the source for continuous discussions and disagreements among my colleagues. While some consider them precise and…

Why Is the Live-Event Ticket Market So Screwed Up? - Freakonomics Freakonom

The often-overlooked random forest kernel · RMarcus

Ryan Marcus, assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Using machine learning to build the next generation of data systems.

Camp Callaway

The American Scholar: Tales of War and Redemption - Phil Klay

Even in the face of the ultimate human failing, we must be responsive to suffering and attuned to joy

A Lonely Death

In postwar Japan, a single-minded focus on rapid economic growth helped erode family ties. Now, a generation of elderly Japanese is dying alone.

Table-top generals | 1843

Board games are back, thanks to the lessons their designers have learned from computer games. Tim Cross rolls the dice

How many senses do humans have?

The obvious answer is five: vision, hearing, touch, smell, and taste. But the reality may not be so simple.

Parfit — quick and powerful hyper-parameter optimization with visualization

An introduction to parfit

FlipChip Package Overview

If you were uncertain about the term “FlipChip” this tutorial will help you better understand what FlipChip packaging technology is all about. FlipChip package technology has been around for 3-4 decades and started as a package solution for high pin count & high performance…

The Beginning of the End for Copper

The FCC voted last Thursday to relax the rules for retiring copper wiring. This change was specifically aimed at Verizon and AT&T and is going to make it a lot easier for them to tear down old …

Inside Flipkart’s monster-cruncher: how it gleans insights from a petabyte

Understanding the value of your customer: CLV 101

At some point, almost every company faces questions like How good are the customers that we acquire? How do they

KV-Direct: High-performance in-memory key-value store with programmable NIC

The art of flying (short version)

One of the most wondrous markers of the end of the day is a murmuration of starlings

Amazon’s systematic approach

Amazon turned an event into a blockbuster. Here’s a roadmap for retailers who want to replicate its success.

Baseball, BBQ, and Dead Ponies—A History of Fat Men’s Clubs in Texas

A peek inside the revelry and rivalry of Texas's fat men's clubs.

The Marfa Mystique

Outsiders remain fascinated with unraveling the secrets of this place. But locals can explain, one story at a time.