InRants on Machine LearningbyAhmed El Deeb·Mar 20, 2017So what is Machine Learning good for anyway?A few weeks ago, a friend and colleague (Alex G.) asked me this question. He was aware of recent breakthroughs in the world of Machine…
InRants on Machine LearningbyAhmed El Deeb·Oct 6, 2015What to do with “small” data?By Ahmed El DeebA response icon7A response icon7
InRants on Machine LearningbyAhmed El Deeb·Jun 30, 2015Interview Questions for Data Scientist Positions (Part II)In a previous post, I argued for the need of a different kind of interview questions for data science and machine learning engineers. I…A response icon2A response icon2
InRants on Machine LearningbyAhmed El Deeb·Jun 22, 2015Smarter Parameter Sweeps (or Why Grid Search Is Plain Stupid)Anyone that ever had to train a machine learning model had to go through some parameter sweeping (a.k.a. hyper-parameter optimization) to…A response icon4A response icon4
InRants on Machine LearningbyAhmed El Deeb·Jun 18, 2015The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Random ForestsIt’s very common for machine learning practitioners to have favorite algorithms. It’s a bit irrational, since no algorithm strictly…A response icon5A response icon5
InRants on Machine LearningbyAhmed El Deeb·Jun 8, 2015Interview Questions for Data Scientist PositionsThere are loads of books on “cracking” the programming interview, and every computer scientist or software engineer has spent some time…A response icon2A response icon2
InRants on Machine LearningbyAhmed El Deeb·May 28, 20157 Ways to Improve your Predictive ModelsThis is a figure I dug up from an old slide deck I prepared years ago for a workshop on predictive modeling. it illustrates what I think of…A response icon3A response icon3
