At the time of the Wuhan virus pandemic, everything went online. So seminars become webinars. The other day I am watching somebody presenting online. The deck is useful but the speech is boring. I did a screen capture video on the slide screen for an hour (on mac, so the...
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Note taking
There is a post on HackerNews
asking for note-taking skills. Below are some good points made:
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Weighted percentile function
I posted about a paper on a family of definitions of percentile functions, but what about weighted percentiles?
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Hellerstein et al (1995) Generalized Search Trees for Database Systems
GiST is implemented in PostgreSQL and found to have exceptional performance.
This is the paper behind it.
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Cantopop id3v2 tagger using scikit-learn and Keras
A previous post on parsing Cantopop titles by machine learning shows how different machine learning techniques do to identify song title and artist names from a short string. As it turns out, the simple neural network model works nicely and we can make use of it to build a tool....
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