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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Illustration: House Forest
Tools: Procreate App, Ipad Pro
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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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Thoughts On Becoming a Better Data Scientist
If you have been in the field for a while, you’ll have realized by now that every single job you’ve had as a “data scientist” consists of different responsibilities and the expectations they have of you are also vastly different. Here I’ve listed some of the things I have learned along the way that have…
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Recipe: Cheddar and Thyme Bread
I won’t bore you with some random story about the origin of a recipe; hence, here’s the recipe for glorious cheese bread! Adapted from Seasons and Suppers‘ Soft Cheese Bread recipe. Ingredients 6 1/2 cups unbleached bread flour 1 Tbsp. coarse kosher salt 5 Tbsp white sugar 1 cup lukewarm water at about 95F-110F 1 cup plus 2 Tbsp lukewarm buttermilk 1 1/2 Tbsp instant yeast 1/4 cup vegetable…
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