Published inRants on Machine LearningSo what is Machine Learning good for anyway?A few weeks ago, a friend and colleague (Alex G.) asked me this question. He was aware of recent breakthroughs in the world of Machine…Mar 20, 2017Mar 20, 2017
Published inRants on Machine LearningWhat to do with “small” data?By Ahmed El DeebOct 6, 2015A response icon7Oct 6, 2015A response icon7
Published inRants on Machine LearningInterview Questions for Data Scientist Positions (Part II)In a previous post, I argued for the need of a different kind of interview questions for data science and machine learning engineers. I…Jun 30, 2015A response icon2Jun 30, 2015A response icon2
Published inRants on Machine LearningSmarter Parameter Sweeps (or Why Grid Search Is Plain Stupid)Anyone that ever had to train a machine learning model had to go through some parameter sweeping (a.k.a. hyper-parameter optimization) to…Jun 22, 2015A response icon4Jun 22, 2015A response icon4
Published inRants on Machine LearningThe Unreasonable Effectiveness of Random ForestsIt’s very common for machine learning practitioners to have favorite algorithms. It’s a bit irrational, since no algorithm strictly…Jun 18, 2015A response icon5Jun 18, 2015A response icon5
Published inRants on Machine LearningInterview Questions for Data Scientist PositionsThere are loads of books on “cracking” the programming interview, and every computer scientist or software engineer has spent some time…Jun 8, 2015A response icon2Jun 8, 2015A response icon2
Published inRants on Machine Learning7 Ways to Improve your Predictive ModelsThis is a figure I dug up from an old slide deck I prepared years ago for a workshop on predictive modeling. it illustrates what I think of…May 28, 2015A response icon3May 28, 2015A response icon3
