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Machine Learning Foundations: Part 5 - Classifying real-world images

In this article we're going to look at how to use convolutional neural networks to classify complex features. In previsous part 4 -  Coding with Convolutional Neural Networks, you took what you had learned about CNNS. And you saw how to improve the f...

Alex · 3 years ago · 49

Python vs Ruby: A Balanced Comparison for 2024 Developers

In the realm of programming, a perpetual debate rages on: Python vs Ruby. These two languages possess remarkable capabilities and distinctive characteristics, leaving developers in a state of indecision. However, in the year 2024, the importance of s...

Pooja Naik · 15 March · 109

Machine Learning Foundations: Part 1 - What is ML?

Welcome to this series on Machine Learning Foundations. It's a course where you'll learn the fundamentals of building machine learning models using TensorFlow. The only thing that you'll need to know is a little bit of Python. So if you've tried to l...

Alex · 3 years ago · 128

Messaging for Beginners: Exploring the Full Potential of RabbitMQ in Python

Recently, I had to dive into the official RabbitMQ documentation and numerous articles of varying quality on the topic of different types of routing in this message broker. It turned out that there is a lot of material available, but it either explai...

Den W. · 27 June 2023 · 65

Machine Learning Foundations: Part 3 - Convolutions and pooling

In the previous part 2 - First steps in computer vision,  you built a neural network that could recognize items of clothing.  Now that you've looked at fashion example for computer vision, you've probably noticed a big limitation for computer vision...

Alex · 3 years ago · 81

Unit Tests in Python

There are two types of engineers in this universe. The first type writes code, then walks away and does not watch it run. They just assume everything will go according to plan. Then there's the second type: those who write unit tests. With Pytho...

Kelly · 11 February 2020 · 345

Machine Learning Foundations: Part 9 - Using the Sequencing APIs

In part 8: Introduction to Natural Language Processing, we looked at how you can tokenize words with simple APIs. This allowed you to turn words into numbers or tokens so that they can be more easily represented in a computer's memory. It's the first...

Alex · 23 June 2020 · 61

Introduction to JAX (AI Adventures)

NumPy is fast, but how can we make it even faster?  In this article, we're going to look at a new library from Google Research called JAX and see how it can speed up machine learning. JAX can automatically differentiate native Python and NumPy...

Alex · 3 years ago · 155

Machine Learning Foundations: Part 2 - First steps in computer vision

In the previous article Part 1 - What is ML?, you got an introduction to machine learning, and you saw how it works from a programmer's perspective by having you create answers and data, and letting a computer infer the rules that determine them. Thi...

Alex · 3 years ago · 72

Machine Learning Foundations: Part 10 - Using NLP to build a sarcasm classifier

Previous: Part 9 - Using the Sequencing APIs Over the last few parts, we haven't done much machine learning. Instead, we looked at how you can preprocess text data to get it ready for training machine learning models. In this part, you're going to p...

Alex · 25 June 2020 · 371

Machine Learning Foundations: Part 4 - Coding with Convolutional Neural Networks

In the previous part 3 - Convolutions and pooling, you learned all about convolutions and how they can use filters to extract information from images. You also saw how to create pools that can reduce and compress your images without losing the vital...

Alex · 3 years ago · 58

Machine Learning Foundations: Part 6 - Convolutional cats and dogs

Previous Part 5: Classifying real-world images In this part  where we'll take what you've learned about convolutional neural networks in the previous few parts and apply them to a computer vision scenario that was a Kaggle challenge not that long ago...

Alex · 04 June 2020 · 60

Machine Learning Foundations: Part 8 - Tokenization for Natural Language Processing

Previous Part 7 - Image augmentation and overfitting Up to now, you've learned how machine learning works and explored examples in computer vision by doing image classification, including understanding concepts such as convolutional neural networks f...

Alex · 18 June 2020 · 122

10 Python tricks for beginners

There's never an excess of useful tricks in Python. The more of them you learn, the more likely you'll be able to quickly tackle a challenge in practice. Or show your best side in a technical interview. In this article, I'll talk about tricks that ca...

Den W. · 24 August 2023 · 32

What are the Top 10 Python Frameworks for Web Development in 2022?

The future of web development, as we know it, is definitely influenced by Python. With the aid of the right tools, Python allows developers to create fast, secure and maintainable solutions in an efficient manner. It has become one of the most popula...

AnnaSharland · 28 January 2022 · 118

Machine Learning Foundations: Part 7 - Image augmentation and overfitting

Previous part 6 - Convolutional cats and dogs Over the last few articles, you've looked at convolutional neural networks and how they can be used for computer vision. You built classifiers for fashion, horses and humans and cats and dogs. But one the...

Alex · 08 June 2020 · 39