Posts in machine-learning

Numbered Musical Notation Dataset – Component Extraction 1

How to detect objects (extract components)? This is a crucial problem when I’m trying to extract musical notation from typesetted images of numbered musical notation sheet music.

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Titanic Resurrected

Recently, I have been playing around with a competition on Kaggle named Spaceship Titanic.

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Matrix Calculus Demystified

Despite having been a machine learning practitioner for a considerable period of time, I have never truly dived into the mathematical details of deep neural networks, until this morning. This morning I went over a paper [1] on matrix calculus and discovered that the maths of deep learning isn’t so challenging after all! (Well, so long as you understand the basics of calculus and linear algebra).

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K-Means clustering: Implmentation and Analysis

After reading about the section K-Means Clustering in the book, I decided to implement naive (vanilla) K-Means clustering by myself.

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Sentiment analysis with a SQLite database (…and TF-IDF)

Today I’m just starting Chapter 8: Sentiment Analysis in the book. But this time I’m not just busy scribbling down notes or copying code verbatim into my Python REPL. I decided to experiment with SQLite databases! (as you can probably infer from the title) Hopefully, I will be able to practice both my ML and my DB skills 😅.

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