Published inTowards Data Science·Oct 17, 2020How likely are you to meet someone with Coronavirus?Recently, I’ve come across a post asking how likely one is to meet someone with COVID-19 in a group of a certain size. In this quick post, I would like to describe two approaches for computing this number. Assuming we know the probability P(positive) of a random individual in the…Coronavirus5 min readCoronavirus5 min read
Published inTowards Data Science·Jul 14, 2020Building a Visual Search EngineVisual search has been around for a while as a part of Google Images or Pinterest Lens. As it’s becoming more and more popular in e-commerce helping merchants boost their sales by allowing customers to simply upload what they are looking for instead of going through a load of attribute…Visual Search4 min readVisual Search4 min read
Published inTowards Data Science·Nov 2, 2018Time Series Forecasting with RNNsIn this article I want to give you an overview of a RNN model I built to forecast time series data. …Machine Learning6 min readMachine Learning6 min read
Published inTowards Data Science·Jun 1, 2017Convolutional Attention Model for Natural Language InferenceIn this article I’d like to show you a model I used for the Quora question pairs competition. First, I’ll describe a Decomposable Attention Model for Natural Language Inference (Parikh et al., 2016) and then extend it with a convolutional layer to improve loss and classification accuracy. …Machine Learning5 min readMachine Learning5 min read
Mar 27, 2017Credit card fraud detectionI recently found this publicly available dataset of credit card transactions on Kaggle so I thought it might be interesting to play with it a bit and see how good classification results can I get. …Machine Learning6 min readMachine Learning6 min read
Dec 8, 2016Distance estimation using cascade classification and regression.It’s been a while since I got an idea to try to estimate the object distance using just a single camera and machine learning. First I have to admit that this approach can only work under controlled conditions and it’s pretty difficult to get it working for new objects. …Machine Learning5 min readMachine Learning5 min read
