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Experiments in data science

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Experiments in data science is a personal blog at blog.richardweiss.org about data, ai and programming. Since 2016, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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4HN people?
2016–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2017

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked as a worked example of using Luigi pipelines for feature extraction and modelling, specifically a Kaggle project, in a thread about Uber's Michelangelo ML platform.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

A blog about my experiments in programming & machine learning.

What Hacker News says?

  1. They do model/feature storage and versioning just fine. Or at least Luigi does - I use it daily. And feature extraction and modelling is my main usecase. It works really well, across Spark, Scikit and R, saving data in HDFS. Some examples: https://blog.dominodatalab.com/luigi-pipelines-domino/ http://blog.richardweiss.org/2016/10/13/kaggle-with-luigi.ht... https://github.com/Atreya22/luigi_rosmann_sales

    Comment linking /2016/10/13/kaggle-with-luigi.html

    on “Michelangelo: Uber’s Machine Learning Platform”
  2. Submitted Cargo cult data science as a story · 144 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Experiment: simple conditioning of WGANs as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Embedding wikipedia with gensim as a story · 2 points

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  5. Submitted Recommending Movies with Deep Learning as a story · 2 points

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  6. Submitted Using optaplanner to plan water supplies for burning man as a story · 1 points

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  7. Submitted Finding related subreddits with relevancy scoring (Demo and Code) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Adversarial infill – generating flowers with deep learning as a story · 1 points

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