Machine Learning in everyday applications
Machine Learning has been around for decades and is already used in a variety of applications such as spam filters, speech recognition and self-driving cars. It is defined…
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Hunting for restaurant locations in New York using Python
Introduction/Business Problem What follows is a presentation of a short data science task for the IBM Data Science Professional Certificate on Coursera (the related code is uploaded on…
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Your next music instrument: a text editor
In the video Sébastien Rannou is using Sonic Pi (free on Windows, Mac, Raspberry Pi) to reproduce Daft Punk's "Aerodynamic". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cydH_JAgSfg Unlike classical approaches to generate sound on…
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I Googled for you: Natural Language Generation
Automating business news generation from quarterly earnings results. Not sure how, but I woke up to a scramble of googling on NLG. I got the impression out that…
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This future is cool
For someone that once had to limit his program's code to 32KB, it's quite amazing how easy it is do a video like this in about 5 minutes…
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11 Applications for your new Mac
After six years, I got to setup a new Mac. Having never done a format of the previous Mac and deciding not to migrate its installation, I found…
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Tracking reading: Goodreads to Beeminder
If you're into quantified self (e.g. digitally tracking your work, health, habits, whatever) you might have heard of Beeminder, which works as commitment device for following up on…
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Apple, Microsoft and battery-related scandals
People on the internet (or at least the ones that only read headlines) were outraged these last few days to find out that recent iPhones have a feature…
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These mails from Twitter sound kind of desperate
The bad (or good) thing about these kind of notifications is that it reminds me of a book on how social media (and other) apps/platforms use the science…
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Reminder, you're always giving information to Facebook
In case you were wondering how much information you're providing to Facebook's advertisers, there is a page for that. To access the page, you need to bump into…
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