• Today I Learned: Hi, Sierra

    Wednesday August 1, 2018 at 09:20 pm CST

    Today I Learned…how to get Git to work after an upgrade to High Sierra

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  • Final Project First Steps

    Sunday July 29, 2018 at 09:03 pm CST

    My final project will be training a model to develop an intuitive understanding of physics. When I say “intuitive,” I mean that the model will be able to predict the behavior of objects in space without…

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  • Today I Learned: Ruby Binding Class

    Wednesday July 25, 2018 at 11:23 pm CST

    Today I Learned…about Ruby’s Binding class

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  • What’s Up (With) Main?

    Monday July 23, 2018 at 08:31 pm CST

    As you might expect of an aspiring data scientist, I’ve been learning Python. One of the conventions I have found rather strange is the presence of the main function in Python modules. Other languages such as C and C++…

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  • RL and Final Project Proposals

    Monday July 23, 2018 at 02:07 pm CST

    In supervised learning, a model is provided labeled data, trained on that dataset, and expected to accurately describe new data based on patterns learned. During training, the model tries to make its predictions more closely match…

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  • Fun With Views and Common Table Expressions

    Thursday July 19, 2018 at 03:32 pm CST

    A view is a stored query the results of which can be treated like a table. Note that it is the query that is saved and not the results of the query. Each time you use a view, its associated query is executed.

    A related concept is that of the common table expression…

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  • Linear Regression and Friends

    Monday July 16, 2018 at 10:43 am CST

    Linear regression models are used when the relationship between some feature y and some number of other features xi is a linear one…

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