• Becoming an Independent Researcher and getting published in ICLR with spotlight
  Why I became an Independent Researcher, why you should avoid it, and advice for those who make the difficult choice anyway...

• Breeding Bugs in the Latent Space
  A beetle generator made by ML thousands of Public Domain illustrations
  Inspired by the stream of new Machine Learning tools being developed and made accessible and how they can be used by the creative industries, I was curious to run some visual experiments with a nice source material: zoological illustrations...

• A.I. Is Learning to Read Mammograms
  Computers that are trained to recognize patterns and interpret images may outperform humans at finding cancer on X-rays...

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• Learning from The Man who Solved the Market
  What we can learn for data science from Jim Simons, the best investor in recent history...

• How the AI community can get serious about reproducibility
  For too long, the AI research community hasn’t consistently and comprehensively shown its work — sometimes for good reasons, such as proprietary code or data privacy concerns. But in many ways, this habit is stalling the industry instead of propelling it...

• Building a Video Search Engine:
  A Case Study using Salsa Dance Videos
  I’ve decided to marry these two parallel tracks — video and human pose estimation in specific — to create a content-based video search engine. Since applying 2D human pose estimation for video search is a novel idea with “no proof of concept”, I have simplified my approach by selecting a single performer, fixed location single camera video footage of Salsa dance videos...

• Predictive CPU isolation of containers at Netflix
  We were able to meaningfully improve both the predictability and performance of these containers by taking some of the CPU isolation responsibility away from the operating system and moving towards a data driven solution involving combinatorial optimization and machine learning...

• Tidal forces carry the mathematical signature of gravitational waves
  The idea is something of a technicality, but nevertheless an interesting one...

• Project Or No Project?
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  Let me provide a few thoughts that will hopefully convince you why working on projects is worth your time and how best to present your findings in a way that might catch the eye of employers (and other interested parties)...

• Learning Neural Causal Models from Unknown Interventions
  This is a Pytorch implementation of the Learning Neural Causal Models from Unknown Interventions paper. Here we learn the causal model based on a meta-learning transfer objective from unknown intervention data...

• Converting Handwritten Math Symbols into Text Using Random Forest
  As a mathematician, I know how tedious it is to type equations using programs such as LaTeX or Word since my undergrad capstone paper had to be written using LaTeX. I was equal parts frustrated by the sheer effort it took to write statistical equations and amazed at how beautiful they turned out. All the same, I still found myself wishing I could just write the equations by hand!...

• My First Data Science Resume (Sample Data Scientist Resume)
  If you’ve ever googled data science resume, you’ve probably been showered with a plethora of generic articles about structuring a resume, sample resume templates and probably shown example resumes of people who don’t exist or for whom there’s no evidence that they had success with it. The purpose of this piece is to fill that gap by open sourcing the resume that got me my first ever full-time job as a junior data scientist after my graduate program...

 
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• Over 150 of the Best Machine Learning, NLP, and Python Tutorials I’ve Found
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• AutoViz: A New Tool for Automated Visualization
  Thankfully, there is an alternative to creating visualizations using the brute force approach. I recently learned about a library called AutoViz (which is short for “Automated Visualization”)...

• download-tweets-ai-text-gen
  A small Python 3 script to download public Tweets from a given Twitter account into a format suitable for AI text generation tools ...

• Data Smart: Using Data Science to Transform Information into Insight
  "The best single book on Data Science today. I handle the data analysis and BI for the delivery side of a huge internet-based retail company, and have been a fan of Foreman's since his "Analytics Made Skeezy" blog days. His explanations are clear, his examples are to the point, and throughout it all, he is results-oriented."...
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