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Machine Learning Study Goals – April 2023: Transformer paper & Outlier Detection with Deep Learning

Last month I took a month off from setting study goals and I made basically zero progress on my studies. Admittedly it was also deadline month at work, so time and energy was rare. No matter the reasons, this month I’m back to sharing my goals online to hold myself accountable and to inspire you……

What I learned during my 14 Days Fraud Detection Challenge

The problem: Do you have many topics you would like to study or areas of coding you want to improve, but you can’t decide which is the best to focus on so you end up studying a little bit of everything and never making noticeable progress? Or you end up so overwhelmed that you just……

How to Start Learning Machine Learning: Defining Your Goal First

I often get asked “How do I get started with Machine Learning? What do I learn first?” and I really want to help out, but there is a big problem here: I think this is the wrong question to ask. Let’s tackle why I think this is the wrong question and what you can ask……

Completing a Data Science Project in 14 days – Fraud Detection Challenge Announcement

I’m challenging myself to do a full data science project on a Kaggle data set in 14 days – including data understanding, preprocessing, modeling and evaluation. I’m sharing this to make sure I actually do it and to show a realistic portrayal of what is possible in 14 days if you’re not a Kaggle grandmaster.……

Machine Learning Study Goals – January 2023: SHAP paper & getting started with Scala

In this monthly post, I tell you what I plan to study or improve on in the area of machine learning (including an update at the end of the month). Oh, and if you want to receive (bi)weekly updates on how I’m doing with these goals, consider subscribing to my newsletter 😉 Goal 1: Read……

How to install Scala on Windows and use Scala kernel in Jupyter Notebooks

If you’re coming from Python or another language that often makes use of Jupyter notebooks, you might have become a bit addicted to them like me. Especially when learning a new language, like Scala now, or functionality I often want to check my intermediate results when coding and Jupyter notebooks provide a visual and comfortable……

How to solve Advent of Code 2022 – Day 15 with Python

If you missed any previous days, click here for all my content about that: Advent of Code, if you want to know why you should participate and try to code the solution for yourself, click here: Advent Of Code 2022 – 7 Reasons why you should participate. If you’re here to see the solution of……