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Christiaan Defaux

Christiaan Defaux

An overview of fraud/anomaly detection algorithms (machine learning and numerical methods)

Outlier/Anomaly Detection for Fraud

Oct 10, 2021

An overview of fraud/anomaly detection algorithms (machine learning and numerical methods)

Oct 10, 2021

Christiaan Defaux

The Sparse Autoencoder (SAE) for Dummies

If you’ve landed on this page, you’re probably familiar with a variety of deep neural network models. I will assume that you have a…

Feb 5, 2020

The Sparse Autoencoder (SAE) for Dummies

Feb 5, 2020

Christiaan Defaux

Phi Coefficient A.K.A Matthews Correlation Coefficient (Binary Classification)

In machine learning/data science, we often run into problems where we’re trying to classify binary (two-class) data. In this case, you…

Jan 27, 2020

Phi Coefficient A.K.A Matthews Correlation Coefficient (Binary Classification)

Jan 27, 2020

Christiaan Defaux

Unsupervised Learning: The autoencoder in laymans terms

Sometimes we might be presented with data that lack labels. This requires a special set of machine learning models under the umbrella of…

Jan 22, 2020

Unsupervised Learning: The autoencoder in laymans terms

Jan 22, 2020

Christiaan Defaux

Kullback-Leibler Divergence for Dummies

If you’re diving deep into deep learning or machining a better grasp of machine learning then an understanding of the Kullback-Leibler…

Jan 16, 2020

Jan 16, 2020

Christiaan Defaux

Music Generation using Deep Learning — Design Decisions

This post will be based mostly on information from Deep Learning Techniques for Music Generation — A Survey (Briot et al. 2019), which…

Jan 8, 2020

Music Generation using Deep Learning — Design Decisions

Jan 8, 2020

Christiaan Defaux

Using the Durbin-Watson (DW) test for time-series data

First of all, one must be aware of autocorrelation in order to appropriately apply the DW test. Autocorrelation, also known as serial…

Aug 9, 2019

Using the Durbin-Watson (DW) test for time-series data

Aug 9, 2019

Christiaan Defaux

The benefits of a growth mindset in data science

I’m currently in a data science immersive, read intensive. It’s a lot of information to download into the trusty old biological hard drive…

Aug 9, 2019

Aug 9, 2019

Christiaan Defaux

Christiaan Defaux

physicist NOT physician (crippling fear of blood) and machine learning/data science enthusiast/practitioner. MATH IS FUN.

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