Grant SmithinTowards DevYour First Image Classificati… With Zero TypingTo make an image classifier, all you need to do is the following 5 steps.Jun 28, 2022Jun 28, 2022
Grant SmithinIntuitionHow to Choose a Class for an Impure Leaf NodeIn this article, we’ll discuss how to choose the class of an impure leaf node in a decision tree. For simplicity, we’ll use the titanic…Jun 28, 2022Jun 28, 2022
Grant SmithinTowards DevWhat does Isequal(2) mean in Julia?I was watching Derek Banas’s Julia tutorial, and at 16:57, I was confused when he wrote findfirst(isequal(2),[1,2,3]). In particular, I…Jun 25, 2022Jun 25, 2022
Grant SmithinTowards DevHow to Work With Multiple Python Packages in DevelopmentWhen developing in Python, I always find it hard to isolate code. Here is how to do it:Jun 6, 2022Jun 6, 2022
Grant SmithBoosting and Random Forests — Why they are AwesomeLet’s start with just a simple regression tree. What’s its goal? To make a bunch of splits and on either side of a split, pick a good…Jun 3, 2022Jun 3, 2022
Grant SmithWhy Can’t We Just Filter?When thinking about a machine learning problem, before we hop to making a model, let’s think about what we’re doing. We’re trying to…Jun 3, 2022Jun 3, 2022
Grant SmithDifferent Measures of Data SpreadThe typical measure of spread in a dataset is variance/standard deviation (from now on, we’ll just discuss variance, but they’re…Jun 3, 2022Jun 3, 2022
Grant SmithTest Function IntegrationWe know that test functions are differentiable to any order. And that makes it seem like they should be integrable to any order, but that…May 18, 2022May 18, 2022
Grant SmithA Few Technical Notes on Test FunctionsGiven that we understand distributions, and that they’re useful because we are now evaluating functions at functions instead of at points…May 17, 2022May 17, 2022
Grant SmithWhy Distribution Theory?Distribution Theory (or Schwartz Distributions, or Generalized Functions) can be pretty hard to grasp, but if we take a step back and think…May 17, 2022May 17, 2022
