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So what is Machine Learning good for anyway?

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…
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Ahmed El Deeb
What to do with “small” data?

What to do with “small” data?

By Ahmed El Deeb
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Ahmed El Deeb

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…
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Ahmed El Deeb
Smarter Parameter Sweeps (or Why Grid Search Is Plain Stupid)

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…
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Ahmed El Deeb
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Random Forests

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…
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Ahmed El Deeb
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