PinnedMember-onlyMy All-Time Top ArticlesAn Archive — What You Need to Know About Netflix’s ‘Jupyter Killer’: Polynote 📖 Let’s Build a Fashion-MNIST CNN, PyTorch Style Two Sides of the Same Coin: Jeremy Howard’s fast.ai vs Andrew Ng’s deeplearning.ai 9 Things I Learned from Blogging on Medium for the First Month “This is CS50”: A Pleasant Way to…Data Science1 min readData Science1 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·PinnedMember-onlyData Science Interview Deep Dive: Cross-Entropy LossWhat makes it the de-facto multi-class classifier loss function — There is much to learn and grasp to ace that important Data Science/Machine Learning interview. This article is part of a series of articles that try to make the preparation process easier and less daunting by introducing structure, use visual explanations, and keeping things relevant. Motivation The proper choice of loss…Data Science9 min readData Science9 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·PinnedMember-onlyFrom Legoland to Neural Networks: Universal Approximation Theorem in Layman’s TermsWhy Deep Learning is so powerful yet so simple in its core — So you’ve heard about AI, heard about the amazing things a well-trained Machine Learning model, especially Deep Learning model can do. In some tasks, it even surpasses human performance. For example, a computer can now recognize different kinds of objects like cats, dogs, cars better, and an average human with…Universal Approximation5 min readUniversal Approximation5 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·Dec 16, 2021Member-onlyIntuition Builder: How to Wrap Your Mind Around Transformer’s Attention MechanismA Transformer Attention Mechanism Explainer for the Rest of Us — Table of Contents · Motivation · Fundamental Building Blocks: A Special Vector Called ‘Embedding’ · Core Mechanism: Dot Product of Vectors · Let’s Apply it on Something Easier: Recommender System · Now We Can Talk About Attention: How YouTube Finds The Video You Search (QKV system) · Attention in Translation, It’s All Very Natural · Self-Attention…Transformers10 min readTransformers10 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·Nov 10, 2021Member-only7 Tips I Wish I Knew Before Clearing All HackerRank Python ChallengesThat will boost your coding speed and efficiency — I recently published a piece about how I cleared all HackerRank SQL challenges in two weeks. It was a fun ride, and there’s no reason not to ride on the momentum and brush up my Python skills. So here I am, three weeks later, writing this article sharing my experience…Python9 min readPython9 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·Nov 8, 2021Member-only7 Syntax Patterns to Boost🚀 Your Hackerrank 🐍Python Coding ChallengesThat also helped me clear all Hackerrank Challenges in 3 weeks — Motivation😎 Doing coding challenges is probably the best way to learn the practical side of programming languages quickly. Compared to doing actual projects, it has a sharp focus on improving your problem-solving skills leveraging specific language concepts and syntax. It’s depth(projects) vs. breadth(coding challenges). You will benefit more from doing it…Python8 min readPython8 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·Oct 19, 2021Member-only9 Tips That Helped Me Clear All HackerRank SQL Challenges in 2 WeeksThat will also help your SQL code challenges journey — Current projects at work require more SQL skills, so I took the time to brush up my SQL knowledge using the HackerRank coding challenges platform. It took me a bit more than two weeks (on and off between work, workout, and taking the kid to day school, etc.) to finish…Sql11 min readSql11 min read
Published in InfoSec Write-ups·May 17, 2021Member-onlyTLDR CTF Write Up: Vulnversity/TryHackMeCTF write up you should read BEFORE starting the room — Series Brief Cybersecurity has always been something I want to get into or at least apply my data science skills to. Not because of the ‘Mr. Robot’ style Hollywood hacking scene though, not that. …Cybersecurity5 min readCybersecurity5 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·May 6, 2021Member-onlyHow I Migrate My Data Science Blog from Pelican to HugoAnd you can too! — Motivation Issues of Pelican I’ve been using Pelican as the framework for my data science blog for a while now. It has worked for me, though there were always some minor glitches that made me feel not settled. It never feels complete and satisfying to me. Here are some of the big ones: Small…Blog11 min readBlog11 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·Feb 1, 2021Member-only3 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Worry About Math for Your Machine Learning JourneyAnd How to Still Achieve Success — It All Started From My Personal Struggle To tell you the truth, the fear of not being good enough at math has been hunting me from day one when I started my Machine Learning journey. It first struck me when I tried to apply the chain-rule while doing the back-propagation of neural networks. It took me a…Machine Learning5 min readMachine Learning5 min read
