In 2019, I wrote on the topic of discovering which features interact in a model agnostic manner, using an approach from a paper by Friedman and Popescu entitled Predictive Learning Via Rule Ensembles. I wanted to revisit the topic briefly and expand on it somewhat, given that scikit-learn has progressed …
It’s time to setup a new machine, so once again I’m jotting down a list of apps I generally install right away, slightly updated again.
I was going to spew this out as a Twitter “thread” as is the fashion these days, but I decided against it. Blogging is still cool. Especially once I realized this is not the first time I’ve done this…
… Meaning that I’m sitting at my machine and realize …
Like many others, I’m a huge fan of Jeremy Howard’s fast.ai courses. Even when having worked in the machine learning field for years, I still find the material to be packed full with interesting …
It’s time to setup a new laptop, so once again I’m jotting down a list of apps I normally install right away, slightly updated again.
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Earlier last month, a security researcher called Victor Gevers sent out a tweet stating that he had stumbled upon a number of open MongoDB databases hosting what was apparantly logged chats from a number of Chinese applications such as Weixin (WeChat) and QQ:
Around 364 million online profiles and their …
About two weeks ago, Hacker News was discussing a new R package called brickr, which relies on another relatively new and excellently crafted R package called rayshader to enable its rendering goodness. The latter package was originally constructed as a means to generate good-looking “2D and 3D hillshaded maps of …
Update: this post now has a follow-up with some further details.
Throughout the past year or so, both R and Python focused data science practioners have picked up on a paper by Friedman and Popescu from 2008 entitled Predictive Learning Via Rule Ensembles. Interestingly enough, the “meat” of the paper …