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Mirror Mirror - Reflections on Quantitative Fairness - this is one of the first pieces I read about algorithmic fairness and caught my attention. It surveys the most common…
DBScan practitioners guide - DBScan is a density-based clustering method. One important advantage comparing to K-means is DBScan's ability to identify noise and outliers. I feel…
- Connected Papers is Here·1 min
Almost a year ago I published a blog post about " 5 ways to follow publications in your field ". Yesterday I was exposed to a new tool - Connected Papers . Connected Papers…
Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by opportunity cost - if you have a capacity for only 10 words, those are the 10 words you should take -…
I read a blog post about DevSkiller report analyzing some trends and I read the original report and I have some comments to make. “Companies from Israel are the most selective”…
I run into this medium post today - " How To Capitalize All Words in a String in Python ". It explains how to c onvert “hello world” to “Hello World” but it does it the hard way.…
- argparse choices·1 min
I saw this post in Medium regarding argparse, which suggests the following - parser.add_argument("--model", help="choose model architecture from: vgg19 vgg16 alexnet", type=str) I…
Bonus - R-miss-tastic - theoretical background and resources which relate to R missing values package. I recommend the lecture notes. https://rmisstastic.netlify.com/lectures/…
I saw the following post about list comprehension tricks in Python . I really like python comprehension functionality - dict, set, list, I don’t discriminate. So 3 follow up notes…
“ NetworkX is a Python package for the creation, manipulation, and study of the structure, dynamics, and functions of complex networks.” NetworkX lets the user create a graph and…
All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people - the length of this post could definitely be cut into half. However, I find the idea that useful, meaningful…
This post was published on Medium An important part of the data scientists and researchers’ life is to keep track of publications in their field. Depends on your field and needs…
This post was publish on Medium While there are many people who would like to become a data scientist and are looking for their first position, junior data science positions are…
Five Talks from spaCy-IRL Worth Watching - great summarisation of 5 talks from spaCy-IRL conference which took place in Berlin in the beginning of July. The summarisations are…
Checklist for debugging neural networks - well written trouble shooting for neural networks models which is not language or framework specific!…
- 4 insights from BDHW19·3 min
This week I attended BDHW19 - Big data in Health Care which was hosted by the Weizmann Institute of Science in collaboration with Nature Medicine. The conference had a great line…
- 5 > 11·1 min
But it takes 11 minutes to read the tutorial...
How to Grow Neat Software Architecture out of Jupyter Notebooks - jupyter notebooks is a very common tool used by data scientist. However, the gap between this code to production…
Deep density networks and uncertainty in recommender systems - Yoel Zeldes and Inbar Naor from Taboola engineering team published a series of posts (4 so far) about uncertainty in…
JQ cook book - I find myself using JQ quite often and sometimes to more complex things than just filtering fields. https://github.com/stedolan/jq/wiki/Cookbook Bonus point - list…
I have recently took "Bayesian machine learning in Python: A\B testing" course in Udemy . My notes from the course can be found here . It is mainly written for myself for easier…
https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017/11/29/epitaphs-in-the-graveyard-of-mathematics/ And a follow up - https://gorelik.net/2017/12/02/epitaphs-in-the-graveyard-of-mathematics/
Authors: David Tsurel , Dan Pelleg , Ido Guy , Dafna Shahaf Article can be found here Trivia facts can drive users engagement, But what are trivia fact? Is the fact “Barack Obama…
- Map Spark UDAF (Java)·1 min
I run Spark code on Java. I had data with the following schema - ```text root |-- userId: string (nullable = true) |-- dt: string (nullable = true) |-- result: map (nullable =…
Code challenges are a common tool to evaluate candidate ability to develop software. Of course there are other indicators such as - blog posting, open source involvement, github…