I’ve recently bought a reMarkable 2 and am happy with it. Since teaching is still happening online for the most part at the moment, I was curious whether I could use it as a drawing tablet, share the screen with my machine, and then pick that up in e …
TL;DR: very likely not.
A student once asked me whether it would make sense to tune the probability cutoff (a.k.a. threshold) for random forests. Let’s explain first what we mean by that exactly. Assume a binary classification setting. Say we’ve trained a single decision tree …
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.
Optional:
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 …