This article on causal machine learning covers a practical example of how to learn structural causal models (SCM) directly from data. We will use bnlearn, which is an open-source library for learning the graphical structure of Bayesian networks in Python. Check out my Github repo for additional code examples. For other frameworks, checkout my page …
Here is a plan to learn ML fundamentals in an afternoon by watching some videos on youtube: Follow this plan Machine learning fundamentals: What is Bias and Variance? – 6 minutes What is a Tensor? – 12 minutes [Stop and drink coffee, eat a snack] How to address bias and variance: Regularization (e.g. L2/Ridge) – …
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Python has great options for plotting data. However, sometimes you want to explore data by changing parameters and rerunning plots to explore the effect of those changed parameters. This slows down the cycle of exploration. Luckily, Jupyter offers you a way to make you plots interactive, so you can see the effect of parameter changes …
Very nice interactive 3D plots with Plotly. import plotly.graph_objects as go import numpy as np import pandas as pd # Read data from a csv Z = pd.read_csv('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/plotly/datasets/master/api_docs/mt_bruno_elevation.csv').values # Actually not necessary to provide X and Y… X = np.linspace(0, 1000, Z.shape[0]) Y = np.linspace(0, 1000, Z.shape[1]) fig = go.Figure(data=[go.Surface(x=X, y=Y, z=Z)]) fig.update_layout(title='Mt Bruno Elevation', …
Optimal Dynamic Pricing of Inventories over Finite Horizons
Example You have a user table in Postgres: CREATE SCHEMA tutorial; CREATE TABLE tutorial.crud_users ( id INT NOT NULL, username VARCHAR NOT NULL, CONSTRAINT crud_table_pkey PRIMARY KEY (id) ); You insert new users and update usernames for existing users. Update is a destructive operation that overwrites data, so how do you keep track of what …
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For the last five years, I have been fascinated with machine learning techniques, but that fascination is slowly running out. I increasingly consider ML a tool in my tool box among others, not a panacea to all problems. In particular, I’d like to return to other algorithmic techniques from my educational back, i.e. computer science. …
Programming is like writing a book. Both programs and books are written in a language, e.g. Datalog or Tagalog, but the similarity goes deeper than that. Imagine that you must write a book with the subject "a man walks his dog". There are endless ways to write that book, but only a few of them …
I have read the WHO’s sitreps on CoViD-19 daily since the end of January 2020, where I was visiting Viet Nam. I now live in Denmark (a Scandinavian country) where the Corona virus has shut down society and many people have tested positive. When I compare the numbers for Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway, Sweden) with a …
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