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…)
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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…)
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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…)
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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.
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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…)
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