Coding: Navigating through #000000 and #ffffff: Color Theory in Python
Color is everywhere around us. It makes us feel certain ways. Sometimes it pushes to buy things, eat things – it often dictates our actions. Color usage is everywhere, in powerpoint, in infographics, in marketing, etc. One of the ways we can study color is through color theory. Color theory refers to how we perceive…
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Recipe: Carrot Cake Cookies with Cream Cheese Filling
ingredients cream cheese filling: 4 oz cream cheese 2 cups powdered sugar 1 – 2 tsp vanilla extract cookies: 2 cups all purpose flour ½ tsp baking soda ½ tsp salt 6 oz of butter ½ cup sugar 1 cup brown sugar, packed 2 large eggs 1tbsp vanilla extract 2 tsp cinnamon 1/2 tsp nutmeg 1/4 tsp ginger…
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Illustration: Sprigs
An Ode to Crafting
Crafting has always been there with me, every victory, every failure. She was there when I needed comfort, when I needed encouragement, when I needed space – she’s been the perfect companion in this life of mine. the beginning I am not sure why or how I was drawn to “making things”, my parents…
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Coding: A Deep Dive into Reddits’s r/SkincareAddiction
Some of you may or may not know I am obsessed with skincare. Now, you may think I am exaggerating, maybe she only has a couple products. I have 50-75 products. It’s a problem. It goes without saying, I do not put that many products on a given day. My routine consists of 6-10 steps…
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Inktober Illustrations
Inktober is a month long challenge where artists post one drawing a day based on a prompt. I am following raqueltravelillustration‘s Inktober prompts! day 19: alien day 18: eclipse day 17: magic weapon day 16: kettle day 15: invocation day 14: constellations day 13: potion day 12: ghost
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Coding: Extractive Text Summarization Using Word Vector Embeddings and Rouge_N Calculation
Text summarization, as the name implies, is a technique to summarize large pieces of text. Our goal is to generate summaries that make sense – remember high school and summarizing papers and books? Yes, we have to get the machine to do that. This far from an easy task; it is actually an area of…
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Coding: The Issue with LDA Models
Unpopular opinion: LDA models can be problematic. tl:dr; LDA models are often overused and misused. Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a very common model used in natural language processing with the intent of clustering some amount of text data into topics. LDAs have become the staple natural language processing model with hundreds of tutorials…
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Recipe: Puff Pastry Wrapped Brie with Fig Jam
Literally, mouth-watering. You’re welcome. ingredients Wheel of brie Fig jam 1 sheet puff pastry, defrosted, rolled out to 11 x 11 inches 1 egg 1 tablespoon water thyme leaves (optional) directions Preheat the oven to 400F. Prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper. Roll out puff pastry into baking sheet. Spread a generous layer of fig jam on puff…
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Things Grow 