Last month, The Japan Times published its curated list of Tokyo's five best ramen shops. But Japan's capital city is a truly massive metropolis boasting restaurants galore, so we wanted to know: What did we overlook? And where are your favorite ramen shops?
A 50-inch TV for $300 comes with some trade-offs.
Leverage mental models to think better. First Principles Thinking is an excellent model for critical thinking. This post looks at how to practice First Principles Thinking with lots of examples.
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The regime in Pyongyang has sent hundreds of programmers to other countries. Their mission: Make money by any means necessary. Here's what their lives are like.
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New research is challenging long-held assumptions about how our eyes influence our stomachs.
Ah, video stores, where viewers—and cinephile clerks—got to develop eclectic tastes.
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Despite their wacky brains, these intelligent animals seem to respond to the drug in a very similar way to humans.
To get his URL, the founder of State Snaps turned to extreme measures
The country’s new politics are often attributed to anger over migrants. But the story begins decades ago, when China first targeted small textile towns.
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The ability to let go of control when one wants it most is one of the most important skills anyone can develop.
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The herb’s unique flavor can make a dish for some and ruin it for others.
For the advertising industry, ad blocking is an existential crisis. For the Pi-hole community, it’s a sport.
Somewhere on its path to global ubiquity, pesto became a catchall name for any random herby sauce thrown in a blender. Now Ligurians want it back
Two lottery-crazed clerks robbed the Agricultural Bank of China in Handan, Hebei province of over US$ 6 million
The Medallion Fund, an employees-only offering for the quants at Renaissance Technologies, is the blackest box in all of finance.
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An ex-convict on how to set your mind free.
Netflix's 'The Confession Killer' examines the true story of the man who said he killed nearly 600 people.
The mother of two with an “amazing spirit” died after being sucked halfway out a window on a Southwest plane.
PyTorch elastic training.
In this article, I will present five techniques to prevent overfitting while training neural networks.
With new neural network architectures popping up every now and then, it’s hard to keep track of them all. Knowing all the abbreviations being thrown around (DCIGN, BiLSTM, DCGAN, anyone?) can be a bit overwhelming at first. So I decided to compose a cheat sheet containing many…
Take an inside look into the TensorFlow team’s own internal training sessions--technical deep dives into TensorFlow by the very people who are building it. On this episode of Inside TensorFlow, Software Engineer Alex Passos discusses the eager execution runtime. Let us know what…
Natural Language Processing Best Practices & Examples - microsoft/nlp-recipes
In this tutorial we learn to quickly train Huggingface BERT using PyTorch Lightning for transfer learning on any NLP task
Collection of notebooks about quantitative finance, with interactive python code. - cantaro86/Financial-Models-Numerical-Methods
Brush up on your Python basics with this post on creating, using, and manipulating tuples.
Autoencoders can be a very powerful tool for leveraging unlabeled data to solve a variety of problems, such as learning a "feature extractor" that helps build powerful classifiers, finding anomalies, or doing a Missing Value Imputation.
Knowledge distillation is a model compression technique whereby a small network (student) is taught by a larger trained neural network (teacher). The smaller network is trained to behave like the large neural network. This enables the deployment of such models… Continue reading…
Solving real-world problems with probabilities
Practical Data Science with R, 2nd Edition author Dr. Nina Zumel, with a fresh author’s copy of her book!
Chapter 5 excerpt of “Data Science in Production”
While Pandas is the library for data processing in Python, it isn't really built for speed. Learn more about the new library, Modin, developed to distribute Pandas' computation to speedup your data prep.
Correlation coefficients enable to you find relationships between a wide variety of data. However, the sheer number of options can be overwhelming. This picture sums up the differences between five of the most popular correlation coefficients. Part two covers several less…
You can process data that doesn’t fit in memory by using four basic techniques: spending money, compression, chunking, and indexing.
This post is about various evaluation metrics and how and when to use them.
Many of us are bombarded with various recommendations in our day to day life, be it on e-commerce sites or social media sites. Some of the recommendations look relevant but some create range of emotions in people, varying from confusion to anger. There are basically two types of…
This post is about various evaluation metrics and how and when to use them.
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Detailed derivations and open-source code to analyze the receptive fields of convnets.
157 votes, 15 comments. Hi, Reddit. I'm excited to share confident learning for characterizing, finding, and learning with label errors in datasets…
Over the past few years, deep learning has been taking by storm many industries. From voice recognition to image analysis and synthesis, neural networks have turned out to be very efficient at solv…
China’s mobile payment ecosystem, the largest in the world, is built upon QR codes. But that technology extends far beyond shopping to ease friction throughout daily life. On a recent trip to China, I personally interacted with QR codes 42 times in a single day—to ride the…
In this post, learn how to extend Scikit-learn code to make your experiments easier to maintain and reproduce.
Jeremy Smith, Jonathan Indig, Faisal Siddiqi