Two years ago today I started studying the Python programming language. I had heard how Python is supposed to be an easy language to learn, and I thought it might be useful. Here is a sampling of the ways that I have used Python: Checking for errors on my... (more…)

Over the past several years there's been a welcome trend in NLP projects to be broadly multi-lingual. However, even when many languages are supported, there's a few that tend to be left out. One of these is Japanese. Japanese is written without spaces, an... (more…)

In languages like Ocaml, Haskell, type systems will often help you along the way of programming. Catch errors, warn incomplete guards. In the end, maintain invariants so that minimize ill-formed actions of the running program. (more…)

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Decision Trees, Random Forests, AdaBoost & XGBoost in Python Decision Trees and Ensembling techniques in Python. How to run Bagging, Random Forest, GBM, AdaBoost & XGBoost in Python. What you’ll learn: Get a solid understanding of the decision tre... (more…)