Ahmed El Deeb in Rants on Machine Learning

So what is Machine Learning good for anyway?

A few weeks ago, a friend and colleague (Alex G.) asked me this question. He was aware of recent breakthroughs in the world of Machine Learning, esp. where it came to computer vision. Popular media picked up these relatively recent successes and…

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Ahmed El Deeb in Rants on Machine Learning

Oct 5, 2015

What to do with “small” data?

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Ahmed El Deeb in Rants on Machine Learning

Jun 30, 2015

Interview Questions for Data Scientist Positions (Part II)

In a previous post, I argued for the need of a different kind of interview questions for data science and machine learning engineers. I then listed some questions I thought good for gauging data science knowledge and cleverness…

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Ahmed El Deeb in Rants on Machine Learning

Jun 22, 2015

Smarter Parameter Sweeps (or Why Grid Search Is Plain Stupid)

Anyone that ever had to train a machine learning model had to go through some parameter sweeping (a.k.a. hyper-parameter optimization) to find a sweet spot for algorithm parameters. For random forests the parameters in need…

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Ahmed El Deeb in Rants on Machine Learning

Jun 17, 2015

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Random Forests

It’s very common for machine learning practitioners to have favorite algorithms. It’s a bit irrational, since no algorithm strictly dominates in all applications, the performance of ML algorithms varies wildly depending on the application and…

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Ahmed El Deeb in Rants on Machine Learning

Jun 8, 2015

Interview Questions for Data Scientist Positions

There are loads of books on “cracking” the programming interview, and every computer scientist or software engineer has spent some time hunting down and trying to solve interesting interview problems. But the typical interview problems are not…

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Ahmed El Deeb in Rants on Machine Learning

May 28, 2015

7 Ways to Improve your Predictive Models

This is a figure I dug up from an old slide deck I prepared years ago for a workshop on…

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