Luciano Strika articles - 28 total
How to Create a Spoiler Tag in HTML
Using HTML to create a spoiler tag that shows/hides content.
Ant Colony Optimization and the Travelling Salesman Problem
Each ant is not especially smart, and they follow simple rules individually, but collectively they can converge to complex behaviors as a system, and amazing properties emerge.
Feature Visualization on Convolutional Neural Networks (or: Making your own Deep-Dream with Keras)
According to Wikipedia, apophenia is “the tendency to mistakenly perceive connections and meaning bet...
3 Programming Books to Read During Lockdown
Be it an O’Reilly book, or some of the Computer Science classics, many programming books can help you...
What is the one tip you would give to new bloggers out there?
Imagine you had to start your blog over again. What things have you learned in your path so far that you think would make the biggest difference this time around?
Markov Chains: Training AI to Write Game of Thrones
Markov chains have been around for a while now, and they are here to stay. From predictive keyboards...
Coding MapReduce in C from Scratch using Threads: Map
Hadoop’s MapReduce is not just a Framework, it’s also a problem-solving philosophy. Borrowing from f...
Why do Neural Networks Need an Activation Function?
Why do Neural Networks Need an Activation Function? Whenever you see a Neural Network’s architecture...
Data Scientists|Engineers: What are the Frameworks you use the most at your job?
I've seen a lot of statistics about programmers, but not specifically about Data Scientists or...
LSTM: How to Train Neural Networks to Write like Lovecraft
LSTM Neural Networks have seen a lot of use in the recent years, both for text and music generation,...
5 Probability Distributions Every Data Scientist Should Know
Probability Distributions are like 3D glasses. They allow a skilled Data Scientist to recognize...
Convolutional Neural Networks: Python Tutorial (TensorFlow Eager API)
Convolutional Neural Networks are a part of what made Deep Learning reach the headlines so often in t...
K Means Clustering with Dask (Image Filters for Pictures of Kittens)
Applying filters to images is not a new concept to anyone. We take a picture, make a few changes to i...
My First 1000 Medium Followers: A Tech Writing Journey
Are you wondering how to get Medium followers for your tech blog? Do you worry your content isn’t...
3 Machine Learning Books that Helped me Level Up as a Data Scientist
There is a Japanese word, tsundoku (積ん読), which means buying and keeping a growing collection of...
Autoencoders: Deep Learning with TensorFlow’s Eager Execution
Deep Learning has revolutionized the Machine Learning scene in the last years. Can we apply it to...
FuzzyWuzzy: How to Measure String Distance on Python
Python’s FuzzyWuzzy library is used for measuring the similarity between two strings. Here’s how you...
XGBoost: Predicting Life Expectancy with Supervised Learning
Today we’ll use XGBoost Boosted Trees for regression over the official Human Development Index...
Magic: The Gathering Meets Data Science
Magic: The Gathering has been one of my hobbies for years. Its large card base and long history make...
K-Means Clustering for Magic: The Gathering - Card Recommendation
Unsupervised Learning has been called the closest thing we have to “actual” Artificial Intelligence,...
Data Analysis: Pandas and Seaborn on a Kaggle Dataset
Curiosity and Intuition are two of a Data Scientist’s most powerful tools. The third one may be...
Exploratory Data Analysis: Pandas Framework on a Real Dataset
Today we’ll leverage Python’s Pandas framework for Data Analysis, and Seaborn for Data...
Vim: How to Start Using The Text Editor for Developers
To some, Vim is a beautiful relic from the past. To others, it’s that annoying thing you have to...
Command Magicks: How to Manipulate Files and Strings from the Terminal
In this shell tutorial, we’ll deal with tasks that require interaction with files or strings, and can...
How to Start Using the Terminal to Be More Productive
As developers, the terminal can be our second home. However, we can’t use it until we learn how to,...
How to Scrape the Web using Python with ScraPy Spiders
Sometimes Kaggle is not enough, and you need to generate your own data set. Maybe you need picture...
How to Run Parallel Data Analysis in Python using Dask Dataframes
Sometimes you open a big Dataset with Python’s Pandas, try to get a few metrics, and the whole thing...
Vim: How to use Multiple Clipboards to do Copy and Paste on Steroids
Vim: Squeezing the Text Editor’s Juice with More Features Productivity is always one pomod...