Back in early September, I came across an article on hacker news introducing a brand new class at Stanford called "How to Start a Startup". The class, which was hosted by Y Combinator founder Sam Altman, eschewed the tra…
This post is part of a series covering the exercises from Andrew Ng's machine learning [https://www.coursera.org/course/ml] class on Coursera. The original code, exercise text, and data files for this post are available here […
I've spent a lot of time this year learning about the Python ecosystem. It's not something that I've ever used formally on the job, so I had to sort of go out of my way to get exposed to Python. The reason I was motiva…
A little while ago I participated in a competition on Kaggle called the Higgs Boson Machine Learning Challenge [https://www.kaggle.com/c/higgs-boson], and I wanted to share some thoughts about my approach to the competition and so…
Welcome to my blog! This is a new type of endeavour for me as I've never blogged before, but I have a lot of interesting ideas for topics that I'm looking forward to writing about. To get things kicked off, I thought I wou…