Python

Python & APIs: A Winning Combo for Reading Public Data

Knowing how to consume an API is one of those magical skills that, once mastered, will crack open a whole new world of possibilities, and consuming APIs using Python is a great way to learn such a skill. A lot of apps and systems you use on a daily basis are connected to an API. From very simple and mundane things, like checking the weather in the morning, to more addictive and time-consuming actions, such as scrolling through your Instagram, […]

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Dictionaries and Arrays: Selecting the Ideal Data Structure

There are a variety of ways of storing and managing data in your Python programs, and the choice of the right data structure will affect the readability of your code, ease of writing, and performance. Python has a wide variety of built-in mechanisms that meet most of your data structure needs. This course introduces you to two types of data structures: dictionaries and arrays. There are multiple types and classes for both of these data structures and this course discusses […]

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Brython: Python in Your Browser

If you’re a web developer who prefers writing Python over JavaScript, then Brython, a Python implementation that runs in the browser, may be an appealing option. JavaScript is the de facto language of front-end web development. Sophisticated JavaScript engines are an inherent part of all modern Internet browsers and naturally drive developers to code front-end web applications in JavaScript. Brython offers the best of both worlds by making Python a first-class citizen language in the browser and by having access […]

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Python and MongoDB: Connecting to NoSQL Databases

Python is a powerful programming language used for many different types of applications within the development community. Many know it as a flexible language that can handle just about any task. So, what if our complex Python application needs a database that’s just as flexible as the language itself? This is where NoSQL, and specifically MongoDB, come in to play. Throughout this article we’ll show you how to use Python to interface with the popular MongoDB (v3.4.0) database, along with […]

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Introduction to MongoDB and Python

Python is a powerful programming language used for many different types of applications within the development community. Many know it as a flexible language that can handle just about any task. So, what if our complex Python application needs a database that’s just as flexible as the language itself? This is where NoSQL, and specifically MongoDB, come in to play. Throughout this article we’ll show you how to use Python to interface with the popular MongoDB (v3.4.0) database, along with […]

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Machine Learning

Evolution Strategies From Scratch in Python

Evolution strategies is a stochastic global optimization algorithm. It is an evolutionary algorithm related to others, such as the genetic algorithm, although it is designed specifically for continuous function optimization. In this tutorial, you will discover how to implement the evolution strategies optimization algorithm. After completing this tutorial, you will know: Evolution Strategies is a stochastic global optimization algorithm inspired by the biological theory of evolution by natural selection. There is a standard terminology for Evolution Strategies and two common […]

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Basics of Natural Language Processing(NLP) for Absolute Beginners

Introduction According to industry estimates, only 21% of the available data is present in a structured form. Data is being generated as we speak, as we tweet, as we send messages on WhatsApp and in various other activities. The majority of this data exists in the textual form, which is highly unstructured in nature.  Despite having high dimension data, the information present in it is not directly accessible unless it is processed (read and understood) manually or analyzed by an […]

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NLP

HackerNoon Interview

This post is an interview by fast.ai fellow Sanyam Bhutani with me. This post originally appeared at HackerNoon with a different introduction. I had the honour to be interviewed by Sanyam Bhutani, a Deep Learning and Computer Vision practitioner and fast.ai fellow who’s been doing a series interviewing people that inspire him. To be honest, it feels surreal to be the one being interviewed. I hope my answers may be interesting or useful to some of you. Sanyam: Hello Sebastian, […]

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EMNLP 2018 Highlights: Inductive bias, cross-lingual learning, and more

The post discusses highlights of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2018). This post originally appeared at the AYLIEN blog. You can find past highlights of conferences here. You can find all 549 accepted papers in the EMNLP proceedings. In this review, I will focus on papers that relate to the following topics: Inductive bias The inductive bias of a machine learning algorithm is the set of assumptions that the model makes in order to […]

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NLP

10 Exciting Ideas of 2018 in NLP

This post gathers 10 ideas that I found exciting and impactful this year—and that we’ll likely see more of in the future. For each idea, I will highlight 1-2 papers that execute them well. I tried to keep the list succinct, so apologies if I did not cover all relevant work. The list is necessarily subjective and covers ideas mainly related to transfer learning and generalization. Most of these (with some exceptions) are not trends (but I suspect that some […]

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