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A primer on universal function approximation with deep learning (in Torch and R)

September 23, 2016

Arthur C. Clarke famously stated that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” No current technology embodies this statement …

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Lead your own data science projects with the 3 Ps

September 9, 2016

There’s a lot of literature on learning the technical aspect of data science: statistics, machine learning, data munging, big data. …

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Best practices for logging computational systems in R and Python

July 7, 2016

As is the case with most quant software, it’s a bit different from run-of-the-mill software. The somewhat prosaic world of …

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How to write good tests in R

June 30, 2016

Testing is an often overlooked yet critical component of any software system. In some ways this is more true of …

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Modeling data with functional programming – State based systems

May 19, 2016

UPDATE: This draft is obsolete. Please see latest draft at I’m pleased to announce the availability of my latest chapter …

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Rosie the Robot vs Roomba: Two Views on AI

March 31, 2016

This site generously supported by Datacamp. Datacamp offers a free interactive introduction to R coding tutorial as an additional resource. …

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Using Occam’s Razor to solve genius math puzzles

March 4, 2016

Math puzzles always tickle the brain, and this one has tickled quite a few on LinkedIn. Why are these puzzles …

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Is deep learning a Markov chain in disguise?

February 23, 2016

Andrej Karpathy’s post “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks” made splashes last year. The basic premise is that you …

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Making AI More Human: How To Give A Sales Pitch As A Technical Talk

February 19, 2016

I had the pleasure of seeing Gary Marcus give his talk “Making AI More Human” at the NYC Machine Learning …

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7 Ways to Perplex a Data Scientist

February 2, 2016

On the heels of a report showing the inefficacy of government-run cyber security, it’s imperative to understand the limitations of …

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