Git is just a way to manage version control. It was made by the same person who made Linux. GitHub is a cloud service that lets you upload your git repos to the internets and have a backup or collaborate with people easily. PS: I make a mistake in this article when setting up my… Continue reading Draft: Setting up git and github for unity projects
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Playing Games with Reinforcement Learning
Bonjours! Who wants to land on the moon? Perhaps guided by an artificial intelligent agent? I’ll quickly go over using one of the easiest reinforcement learning libraries so you can train a Rocketship to land on the moon (or a moon). We’ll be training a deep learning model to play a game called lunar lander.… Continue reading Playing Games with Reinforcement Learning
Fear and Greed Index data in python (archived)
EDIT 27/05/2022 : THEY BLOCKED IT, THOSE CAPITALISTS. Namast I’ve recently started building a few regime change models and came across Part Time Larry’s YouTube video (in references) for getting recent Fear and Greed Index numbers. They show a way to easily get the data by using CNN’s endpoint. I believe a lazy quant can… Continue reading Fear and Greed Index data in python (archived)
Days of Christmath
Merry! I bring presents regardless of whether you celebrate the birth of Isaac Newton… according to the Julian calendar. I know everyone is excited to peruse math over the holiday period. Anyway, on the first day of Christmath your good friend brought to you a song and a math. December 25th: Day 1 Area of… Continue reading Days of Christmath
Fashion MNIST and why it’s better than MNIST for modern Computer Vision
Hey. Many people are familiar with MNIST, if you aren’t then it is a dataset consisting of handwritten digits from 0 to 9. It stands for Modified National Institute of Standards and Technology. It’s frequently used in training computer vision models to benchmark various classification algorithms. Grad projects and research papers alike use it to… Continue reading Fashion MNIST and why it’s better than MNIST for modern Computer Vision
Practical SQL for everybody
Hay Everyone’s favourite querying language can do more than fetch data to analyse in Python. I firmly believe that in the darkest timeline people use SQL to do everything from developing apps to creating mission critical artificial intelligence. SQL is easy to pick up and do cool things with, which makes it a good stepping… Continue reading Practical SQL for everybody
Unsupervised machine learning to cluster user data
Ohaio, It is interesting to analyse segments created by algorithms. Product managers and marketers will find it a somewhat unbiased way to make sense of customer data. The algorithms can work well but it helps to have a sufficient grasp of statistics and understand the limitations of each model. I thought it would be useful… Continue reading Unsupervised machine learning to cluster user data
Track earnings dates with Yahoo Finance and Google Calendar API
Jagshemash An earnings date is the day when a company releases their periodic financial report. I like seeing them posted by my chat bot but thought it would be nice to have them on my personal calendar too. I wanted to automate the process of finding the date and adding it to Google Calendar(s). If… Continue reading Track earnings dates with Yahoo Finance and Google Calendar API
Automating your Python scripts in the cloud ☁
Hey, It can be hard to get started running scripts in the cloud. I waited till my computer could not compute some of the larger datasets in my personal projects. Luckily I had learned some of these Linux commands when accessing the supercomputer at work. If you’re a product manager, marketer, financial analyst or data… Continue reading Automating your Python scripts in the cloud ☁
Practical Slack bots for Product Managers
Yo ✌ A lot of product managers can be code illiterate but you don’t have to be a developer to make use of some handy features in Slack. As long as you’ve used a computer before you should be able to follow along and impress your team with a bot that does something useful (or… Continue reading Practical Slack bots for Product Managers