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Statistics

Weeks of October 6th

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Note, last week is missing. Most of what I did is included in the prior week, and the rest is included here. It wasn’t enough to merit its own week, because ...

Weeks of August 30th and September 6th

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I’ve decided to combine my weekly’s for these two weeks because I’ve had to spend a lot of time traveling (Germany->Strasbourg->Paris->Montpellier) ...

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NLP

Weeks of October 6th

4 minute read

Note, last week is missing. Most of what I did is included in the prior week, and the rest is included here. It wasn’t enough to merit its own week, because ...

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Neural Networks

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Neural Net

The Dance of Forward Pass and Backprop

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In order to implement a neural network, a solid understanding of Linear Algebra is needed for the forward pass, whereas vector calculus is needed for backpro...

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statistics

Week of March 15th

less than 1 minute read

What I did Monday: Worked on jupyter notebook. See plotly plot from last week Tuesday: Feff9 on linux debugging all day conference call. Wednesday: Pr...

Week of March 8th

2 minute read

What I did Sunday: XAFS Thesis writing Monday: Traveling Tuesday: FEFF Codes and disorder in XANES paper reading Wednesday: 2010 Phys Review B, “Eff...

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Coursework

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Math

Entropy, Information, and Guess Who

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Decision trees are one of the first data structures you learn in computer science (graphically, in practice you might learn them as a linked list), but you m...

The Dance of Forward Pass and Backprop

5 minute read

In order to implement a neural network, a solid understanding of Linear Algebra is needed for the forward pass, whereas vector calculus is needed for backpro...

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Convolution

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NN

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Python

Week of December 13th

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GRU’s, strings, and batch normalization. I didn’t post anything last week because I was busy with grad school work and traveling – I flew back home to New Yo...

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plotly

Week of April 4th

1 minute read

Website building, mathematica rendering, and lots of seaborn manipulation

Week of March 15th

less than 1 minute read

What I did Monday: Worked on jupyter notebook. See plotly plot from last week Tuesday: Feff9 on linux debugging all day conference call. Wednesday: Pr...

Week of March 8th

2 minute read

What I did Sunday: XAFS Thesis writing Monday: Traveling Tuesday: FEFF Codes and disorder in XANES paper reading Wednesday: 2010 Phys Review B, “Eff...

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Linux

WSL2: VM’s in Windows are now Obsolete

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In my previous miscellaneous post, I wrote about why I gave up on WSL1 and switched to running ubuntu in a virtual machine. After looking into WSL2 more, I c...

To VM or Dual Boot

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Update: Using a virtual machine has not been as smooth as I expected. I’ve ended up with some weird problems after a few days. For example: sometimes my trac...

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Neural Network

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neural nets

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PyTorch

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CNN

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Riddles

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Pandas

Week of January 10th

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I’m getting close to my final exams so most of my time will go towards studying. Accordingly, expect a hiatus from blog postings.

Week of December 27th

3 minute read

Bayesian analysis of Amazon reviews in R and the most important functions in Pandas

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tensorflow

Week of May 2nd

1 minute read

What I did Monday: NN data-loading Tuesday: NN pre-processing Wednesday: NN pause. I need to test that my gaussian averaging method is valid enough to...

Week of April 25th

3 minute read

What I did Sunday: Thesis chapter \(\LaTeX\) writing Monday: Thesis chapter \(\LaTeX\) writing Tuesday: More writing, but I also redid some figures co...

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cognition

Color Theory: Triadic

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I’ve recently added somemissing .SCSS files tomy websites github repository, which will now let write my own theme. I’ve taken inspiration from flower arrang...

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Facebook

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Miscellaneous

WSL2: VM’s in Windows are now Obsolete

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In my previous miscellaneous post, I wrote about why I gave up on WSL1 and switched to running ubuntu in a virtual machine. After looking into WSL2 more, I c...

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VM

WSL2: VM’s in Windows are now Obsolete

1 minute read

In my previous miscellaneous post, I wrote about why I gave up on WSL1 and switched to running ubuntu in a virtual machine. After looking into WSL2 more, I c...

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Pytorch

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Image Classification

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Data Structures and Algorithms

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ML

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Numpy

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Linear Algebra

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SVD

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XGBoost

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Decision Trees

Entropy, Information, and Guess Who

5 minute read

Decision trees are one of the first data structures you learn in computer science (graphically, in practice you might learn them as a linked list), but you m...

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RNN

Week of December 13th

1 minute read

GRU’s, strings, and batch normalization. I didn’t post anything last week because I was busy with grad school work and traveling – I flew back home to New Yo...

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R

Week of December 27th

3 minute read

Bayesian analysis of Amazon reviews in R and the most important functions in Pandas

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Bayesian Statistics

Week of December 27th

3 minute read

Bayesian analysis of Amazon reviews in R and the most important functions in Pandas

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Zone Identifier Fix

Week of January 10th

1 minute read

I’m getting close to my final exams so most of my time will go towards studying. Accordingly, expect a hiatus from blog postings.

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website

Week of April 4th

1 minute read

Website building, mathematica rendering, and lots of seaborn manipulation

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cuda

Week of April 25th

3 minute read

What I did Sunday: Thesis chapter \(\LaTeX\) writing Monday: Thesis chapter \(\LaTeX\) writing Tuesday: More writing, but I also redid some figures co...

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pivot tables

Week of May 10th

1 minute read

What I did Monday: Finished script to generate thousands of real-disordered structures. Tuesday: Wrote a script to loop through the results from the sim...

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raise exception

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Time-Series

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Hurst Exponent

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regression

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pipe

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probability

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boiler-plate

Week of Aug 2nd

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I created a really nice template for ML projects that I hope BNL will continue to use for a long time.

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transfer-learning

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Spark

Week of August 9th

less than 1 minute read

What I did: Monday: Kaggle work with giant spotify dataset Tuesday: Added use of the Spotify API, spotipy to the notebook. Weds - Sat: Added recommend...

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PySpark

Week of August 9th

less than 1 minute read

What I did: Monday: Kaggle work with giant spotify dataset Tuesday: Added use of the Spotify API, spotipy to the notebook. Weds - Sat: Added recommend...

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airflow

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apache

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etl

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api

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