Bake, Craft, Code, Life
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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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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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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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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Often we will be dealing with text; short or long, and often we only want to find out the important keywords of said text. As with most things, there are several algorithms out there that you could use for this. A common one that you’ve likely even used before is TF-IDF, but there are others…
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Everyone knows South Park. I’ll admit I haven’t watched an episode in at least 5 years, but once I saw this data set I had to dig in. It’s a prime sample to do some quick and dirty linguistic pattern search. It also provide us with a way to understand how to “measure” language. The…
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NOTE: THIS WAS DONE USING PYTHON 2.7. PLEASE, REFER TO UPDATED POST HERE. A lot of times we need to dig through hundreds of lines of text. Maybe we are digging through research journals or we need to go through large amounts of text. A great technique to speed up this process is by using…
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Okay, so I have a confession to make… banana bread has been my downfall. I’ve done so many experiments to get the perfect banana bread consistency and so many have failed. BUT, I think this is the one y’all… the trick? Using aluminum foil half-way through the baking process! Yup, keeps your bread from over-browning…
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One of the most tedious things when working with data has to be processing times. Sometimes your data is not big enough and this is never an issue. Other times, your data is so big that you sit… and wait… until a Pandas process or whatever other process you’re trying to run finishes running. 2…
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For our anniversary my husband gave the “Hatch” notebook by Ink+Volt. As with all things stationary, I went crazy! It’s just a nifty notebook too. It lets you add in ideas as you go and it lets you split them up into three sections: conceive, incubate and hatch. To try out the notebook, I decided…
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Things Grow 