The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is already full of stars. — Anonymous Every wine aficionado has experienced the disappointment of purchasing a $15 bottle of wine, only to uncork and aerate it discover it is undrinkable. Wine experts…

No one deserves to be thrown into a Zoom waiting room. But a new Zoom policy automatically sends participants to the waiting room for meetings that are not protected by a passcode. This feature burdens meeting hosts with having to continuously monitor the waiting room during the meeting, admitting its…

Software engineering is, in a nutshell, the art of writing and testing efficient, understandable, reliable, reusable, and maintainable code. Here are a few simple rules to help set you on the road to good software engineering practice in Python programming. Use descriptive variable names For example, instead of variables named n and m, use…

Suppose our data set has N examples (rows). Each tree in our random forest contains a bootstrap sample of the data set, which means a set of N samples randomly chosen (with replacement) from the data set. “With replacement” means that each random sample is chosen from the full data…

Joseph Catanzarite The Naïve Bayes Classifier is perhaps the simplest machine learning classifier to build, train, and predict with. This post will show how and why it works. Part 1 reveals that the much-celebrated Bayes Rule is just a simple statement about joint and conditional probabilities. But its blandness belies…