I'd never been to Addis Ababa, the venue for ICLR 2020. I still haven't. But I did manage to attend ICLR 2020.…
Tim Williams
APIs
We were discussing APIs in the office the other day, more specifically, how do you describe an API to someone less technical? My favourite answer was 'magic pipe' but that doesnt really help explain whats happening. eli5 An API is a set of rules that a company publishes that says:…
Ajax
You hit the button and out of nowhere, the next 10 rows appear without the page reloading. Great! we have some ajax in the wild…
Word2Vec
The cookie dough of the NN world…
Goose
Every now and then a data scientist will need some data. Sometimes they will be lucky - they will be given the data. A present from a benevolent team member that wants nothing in return - except perhaps some insight, or a nice predictive model. In any case it's a…
Hyperparameters & Gridsearching
When we want to build a predicitve model with a bunch of data, we want to make the best model possible but we'd be incredibly lucky to get this with the chosen algorithm right out of the gate. We'd need to tune the model to get the best predictive capability…