Michael (Misha) SmirnovAI, Director’s Cut: You’re the Star in the Movie of TomorrowMy mother-in-law has a peculiar fondness for JibJab. The eccentric yet entertaining platform takes public domain music videos, superimposes…Jun 24, 2023Jun 24, 2023
Michael (Misha) SmirnovThe Creator’s Cut: Advocating for Paid Training Data in AILet’s say I’m a data scientist, a futurist, a technophile. Let’s say I even get a little too enthusiastic when it comes to AI and…May 12, 2023May 12, 2023
Michael (Misha) SmirnovMaximizing Accuracy for Rare Occurrences: A Zero-Inflated MSE Approach to Model TrainingTraining a model when most predictions should be zero.Apr 4, 2023Apr 4, 2023
Michael (Misha) SmirnovFailing Upwards: my journey from a PhD in Neuroscience to a Data Scientist at AmazonEmbracing uncertainty and finding a new career path in data scienceMar 18, 2023Mar 18, 2023
Michael (Misha) SmirnovUse BeautifulSoup and WordCloud to visualize the most frequent words in FireflyI love firefly. Does it hold up? I don’t know. But its script is published online, so we’ll use it as an example to display textual data in…Feb 22, 2022Feb 22, 2022
Michael (Misha) SmirnovCommon metrics for evaluating natural language processing (NLP) modelsYou can’t train a good model if you don’t have the right evaluation metric, and you can’t explain your model if you don’t understand the…Feb 18, 20221Feb 18, 20221
Michael (Misha) SmirnovExplain your text classification model with LimeThe more complex a model, the more of a black box it can be — that is, it can get pretty tricky figuring out just why your predictions…Feb 4, 2022Feb 4, 2022
Michael (Misha) SmirnovTechniques to represent text for NLPWe can’t just take a paragraph and feed it directly into a mathematical algorithm; the characters, words, or phrases need to be converted…Jan 12, 2022Jan 12, 2022
Michael (Misha) SmirnovinNerd For TechCreate an automatically expanding TextEditor with a Placeholder in SwiftUII’ve banged my head against the desk for a while about this, and there are quite a few buggy hacks about this floating around the web, but…Nov 27, 20211Nov 27, 20211
Michael (Misha) SmirnovCreate placeholder data with GeoPoint and Date values, and upload it to Firebase Firestore using…At some point during the development process, you may find yourself wishing you could preview what your app would look like if it had a lot…Jul 26, 2021Jul 26, 2021