Feature importance refers to techniques that assign a score to input features based on how useful they are at predicting a target variable. There are many types and sources of feature importance scores, although popular examples include statistical correl... (more…)

Back in February, I put together Lua 5.4 using Cosmopolitan Libc as a quick proof-of-concept, and that led to Lua 5.4 being vendored as part of the Cosmopolitan repository on Github, along with many other interesting developments. It’s pretty exciting to ... (more…)

The release of Django 2.0 was a milestone in the history of Python since it completely dropped support for Python 2.x. I am a long time user of Django and, loyal to the philosophy of “if it is working don’t change” I was always using Python 2.x. (more…)

This is the personal website of a data scientist and machine learning enthusiast with a big passion for Python and open source. Born and raised in Germany, now living in East Lansing, Michigan.

In CPython, elements of a list are stored as pointers to the elements rather than the values of the elements themselves. This is evident from the struct that represents a list in C: // Fetched from CPython main branch. Removed comments for brevity. typede... (more…)