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Andrei Notna

NVM for texts clustering (topic modeling) in Python — quickly whipping up the simplest-possible…

The unreasonable effectiveness of simple matrix decompositions for text data.

22 min readApr 10, 2020

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NVM for texts clustering (topic modeling) in Python — quickly whipping up the simplest-possible…

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Andrei Notna

Grok Neural Networks & Backpropagation by re-inventing them — a hacker’s guide with Python code

What better way to understand something than by (re)inventing/discovering it? Grok the basic intuition and math behind neural networks and…

42 min readFeb 13, 2019

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Grok Neural Networks & Backpropagation by re-inventing them — a hacker’s guide with Python code

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Andrei Notna

Intro to Async Concurrency in Python and Node.js

Learn the basics of async/await programming in Python and Node.js at the same time. Convergent evolution of languages FTW!

12 min readFeb 6, 2019

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Intro to Async Concurrency in Python and Node.js

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Successful rational living falls into two categories:

A. When you know what’s the best thing to do, you also want to do it because, dooh, it’s “the best thing to do”, and then you do it. You…

4 min readMar 31, 2018

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Successful rational living falls into two categories:

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Andrei Notna

Be WRONG, or be WEAK

The title isn’t click-bait — it actually is the only thing I had to say here.

7 min readMar 23, 2018

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Be WRONG, or be WEAK

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Andrei Notna

Always start from where you are

Stop thinking.

5 min readDec 13, 2017

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Always start from where you are

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Andrei Notna

D&O Comic E0 — “You know you’re a freak when…”

This is episode 0 of the upcoming D&O Comic. Expect no meaning, purpose or political agenda. Explanations will come later. Just chill and…

1 min readOct 21, 2017

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D&O Comic E0 — “You know you’re a freak when…”

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Async patterns in Node.js: only 5+ different ways to do it!

TL;DR: callbacks, async module, promises, async/await, coroutines/generators, which to use and when.

18 min readJun 18, 2017

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Napkin explained #1: Polymer’s 50 shades of DOM

One of the most confusing things when starting to work with Polymer (or WebComponents) is the fact that you no longer have just one DOM…

4 min readSep 6, 2015

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Napkin explained #1: Polymer’s 50 shades of DOM

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Andrei Notna

Mapping, Packing and Storytelling

Draft outline:

8 min readAug 1, 2015

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Mapping, Packing and Storytelling

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Andrei Notna

Andrei Notna

Machine-learning engineer. All-over-the-f-stack programmer. Quasi-polymath. Aspiring writer. When I grow up/old I'll probably become an entrepreneur.

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