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I'm currently doing Andrew Ng's course and wrote a short review of course 1 here [1]. If you have the mathematics and statistics background and want to go through that rigorously e…

In the EU we have the incoming GDPR to legislate for (and penalise) data breaches like this. This directive is very clear and detailed on how data should be collected, securely sto…

Googling LeNet, Reset, AlexNet or other well known architectures will provide you with links to the network weights.

I'm always a bit disappointed that yhat indiscriminately used 'ggplot' for the python package name. Using a variation on the name would have been more considerate.

This is definitely a scientific paper. Pretty much no scientific paper comes with source code and the majority of scientific papers are not reproducible without an entire universit…

As an Irish and European person, I want you to know that your comment is misinformed and misleading. Global tax avoidance and evasion by multinationals has no relation to the forma…

Breaking the spirit of the law, but not the letter.

I like to think about it this way. By not explicitly imposing a prior, you are implicitly imposing a prior that each item will receive no votes. This is totally non sensical becaus…

Say hello to the military-industrial complex

Consumption through spending is economically beneficial to everyone. You misunderstand what 'trickle down economics' is.

Clickbait, but great results all the same

Thanks :D

Hi Chris, firstly thanks for all the work you've done publishing brilliant articles on supervised and unsupervised methods and visualisation on your old blog and now in Distill. Th…

Sparse heterogeneous data is often the type of data stored in NoSQL dbs. Modelled in a relational way, this produces many tables with many NULL fields, while keeping it in a key va…

And obesity levels are higher than ever too. Dismissing this article's message because we are living longer is missing the point. We are living longer despite our poor physical hea…

That's a P/E of 60... Also this: > In exchange, Patreon takes only a tiny 5% cut. I hope this is sarcasm, because if I had to pay 5% to make any other transaction I'd be fuming. Wi…

Which is more legible and understandable? f(a, g(h(x), b)) h(x) %>% g(b) %>% f(a, .) "Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execu…

You are loosely describing collaborative filtering [1], a very common recommendation technique. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_filtering

This is a fantastic book, I loved it.

I'd tend to agree. Any large corporation or financial institution that has adopted Hadoop has done so for very good reasons.

If anyone wants to know how deep down the rabbit hole this stuff goes, they should read this blog post [1] on writing a Levenshtein Automaton to speed up fuzzy matching in Lucene b…

Always impressed with the expressiveness and flexibility of the tidytext framework for analysing text. Well done Julia! Julia and David Robinson's book Tidy Text Mining with R[1] h…