A philosophical and practical guide to using continuous integration (via GitHub Actions) to build an automatic model training system. — With the rapid evolution of machine learning (ML) in the last few years, it’s become trivially easy to begin ML experiments. Thanks to libraries like scikit-learn and Keras, you can make models with a few lines of code. But it’s harder than ever to turn data science projects into meaningful…

Make your machine learning and data science projects reproducible with open source tools. — In a lot of machine learning projects I’ve worked on this past year, my dataset changed several times throughout the lifetime of the experiment. When I work with biomedical data, for example, new data arrive almost weekly. …

I’ve often wondered who names makeup colors. If you’ve never browsed the cosmetic aisle at your local drugstore, you might not have noticed the flirtatious labels that distinguish an endless array of lipstick shades. For example, Revlon sells Audacious Mauve, Dare to Be Nude, Rich Girl Red, Kissable Pink and…

One way to deal with the wait for Infinity Wars is to play with some Avengers data. I took the scripts for the last three Marvel Cinematic Universe crossover films (The Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron, and Captain America: Civil War) and found out which words are most characteristic of…

I fed a neural network several hundred academic journal titles. Here’s what it produced, with some hand-made mock-ups for when these journals begin accepting submissions. The Natural Sciences Forest Information Systems The Bioploscience Journal Social Geology Particle Practice Aquatic Humor Molecular Space Studies Journal of Per-pican Meteorology Journal of Chemical Chemistry Health and Biomedical Science

So yeah. I trained an RNN on the collected tweets of Red Lobster and it just generates forlorn apologies to fictitious customers. Does art imitate life? Actual raw, uncurated output: @Minsalarnandra We’re sorry to hear this. Please fill out our form and reference TS14777E in the comments section: https://t.co/vTgR2jXp4w @talesamealleeer…