Bake, Craft, Code, Life
I am not sure what is it about text data that I find so appealing, but it is by far one of my favorite fields of machine learning. If I hadn’t studied astrophysics I would have probably done something in linguistics. Ever since I can recall, I’ve been interested in languages, my parents both taught…
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My son’s favorite dessert is easily anything red velvet. Red velvet cake, red velvet cupcakes, red velvet cake pops, etc. You get the idea. Recently, he’s been doing AMAZINGLY in school so I wanted to do something to surprise him after school. I don’t need to tell you how delicious these were. Omg. My son…
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We bought our first house in the fall of last year. It took a few months to be built to our exact needs and desires, but today we are all moved in and it the house could not look more perfect. One of the things I struggled with, since I am a hyper-anxious person, was…
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In my attempt to follow a healthier lifestyle, I have been trying to play with different ingredients. This week I experimented with almond meal. I had it sitting on my pantry for a few months now and I finally decided to try it out. These almond bites were so delicious! Imagine a smaller, more chewy…
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I like to spend my Sundays baking. It’s amazing to me how from raw ingredients you can make something so delicious and so drastically different. Today, I made a healthier version of banana bread. You are cutting at least a quarter of the calories, so, you’re welcome. The calorie cut comes from using light sour…
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Please, tell me I am not the only who who acts this way, Step 1: Code is running on the first try. I am a genius. Step 2: Question everything. HOW did it run on the first try? Step 3: Realize there is a bug. Freak out. Step 4: Question your career choices. Step 5:…
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A while ago I was tasked with packaging up a bunch of my functions and at the time I was like no, no, I ain’t doing that, I ain’t spending hours figuring it out, I have to keep going. 6 months later I needed to do a similar analysis and I was fucked because I…
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First and foremost, let me make clear that this is NOT a political post. I wanted to create a simple tutorial about on sentiment analysis using comments from a Facebook page. The current POTUS stirs everyone’s emotion and this is a great sample to try a quick and dirty sentiment analysis algorithm. If you want…
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Warning: The opinions expressed here are my own and won’t represent everyone’s grad school journey. Switching career paths is scary and difficult, but not impossible. Here’s my transition story from astronomy to data science that I hope helps you find your place in the data science community. I graduated from graduate school in late 2014.…
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Things Grow 