Last week, we saw how to code a simple network from scratch, using nothing but torch tensors. Predictions, loss, gradients, weight updates – all these things we’ve been computing ourselves. Today, we make a significant change: Namely, we spare ourse... [Read more...]

Contents: Introduction XGBoost - An Implementation of Gradient Boosting Load And Explore The Data Hyperparameters Training The Model: Or, how I learned to stop overfitting and love the cross-validation Making Predictions Conclusion 1 Introduction XG... [Read more...]

Week 4 Gold Mining and Fantasy Football Projection Roundup now available. The post Gold-Mining Week 4 (2020) appeared first on Fantasy Football Analytics. [Read more...]

BLAS and LAPACK comprise all the low-level linear algebra subroutines that handle your matrix operations in R and other software. Fedora ships the reference implementation from Netlib, which is accurate and stable, but slow, as well as several optimized backends, such as ATLAS, BLIS (serial, OpenMP and threaded versions) and ... [Read more...]

The Covid-19 Symptom Data Challenge (under way at the time of writing this blog post) makes available two large sets of survey data. These are provided in granular but aggregate form ie no response-level microdata, at least for this Challenge. The two ... [Read more...]

In the previous year, I published a post, which as I hoped, was the first tutorial of the series describing how to effectively use PyTorch in Time Series Forecasting. Recently, a new exciting R package was submitted on CRAN. This great news was officia... [Read more...]

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On a whim, I created a collection of colour palettes based on Metallica album covers. Each is named using an abbreviation of the relevant album, or a snippet of a song title from the album. In most cases, the song chosen is one of the stand ... [Read more...]

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Seek and Destroy meets School of Rock - What? On a whim, I created a collection of colour palettes based on Metallica album covers. Each is named using an abbreviation of the relevant album, or a snippet of a song title from the album. In m... [Read more...]

The other day I was looking to make a bunch of graphs showing some recent data from the CDC about excess mortality due to COVID-19. The idea was to take weekly counts of deaths over the past few years, both overall and from various important causes, and then show how ... [Read more...]

The countdown to VirtuEARL has begun! The online Enterprise Applications of the R Language conference starts on Thursday 8th October... The post Countdown to VirtuEARL 2020 appeared first on Mango Solutions. [Read more...]

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