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About Me — Mwaniki Njagi

Look into my eyes and feel the brown — 1+1=11 and I can prove it to yah! Apparently, math is not necessarily the first thing that comes to mind whenever I try to describe myself, but I know a few tricks that can blow your mind. I use my second name as my first because these days it does…

About Me

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About Me — Mwaniki Njagi
About Me — Mwaniki Njagi
About Me

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Published in Heartbeat

·Jan 24

Training Gradient Boosting Models With Comet ML

Guide for programmers with Optuna experience — Introduction Hyperparameters are among the most important aspects of any given model in Data Science and Machine Learning applications. The right combination of hyperparameters is essential when one desires to come up with a great model. A pertinent problem that plagues engineers and coders is the fact that it is difficult…

Hyperparameter Tuning

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Training Gradient Boosting Models With Comet ML
Training Gradient Boosting Models With Comet ML
Hyperparameter Tuning

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Published in Heartbeat

·Oct 31, 2022

Why Deep Learning Underperforms with Tabular Data

And proposals to overcome this — Deep learning and tabular data infamously have a difficult relationship with each other. Research has, over the years, led to tremendous spikes in performance for deep learning in various different domains and this has led many to logically assume that the same gains could be replicated in tabular data. So…

Deep Learning

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Why Deep Learning Underperforms with Tabular Data
Why Deep Learning Underperforms with Tabular Data
Deep Learning

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Published in Heartbeat

·Sep 15, 2022

How Biomimicry Can Improve Data Science and Machine Learning Projects

Nature-inspired algorithms can go a long way to improve ML/DS — In Janine Benyus’s book Biomimicry, she describes biomimicry as “the conscious emulation of life’s genius. Innovation inspired by nature.” The book goes to great lengths to highlight a prominent fact that is so prevalent in our daily lives that we probably do not notice. We live in an environment that…

AI

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How Biomimicry Can Improve Data Science and Machine Learning Projects
How Biomimicry Can Improve Data Science and Machine Learning Projects
AI

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Published in Geek Culture

·Aug 14, 2022

These Websites Pay $100–$900 for Your Data Science/AI Articles

Good remunerations for your Data Science/AI articles — Does it often feel like the tech world never talks about the data science/AI part of things? It is all too common for practitioners and enthusiasts in the world of data science and AI to feel left behind because of the sheer amount of content tailored for web developers and…

Data Science

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These Websites Pay $100–$900 for Your Data Science/AI Articles
These Websites Pay $100–$900 for Your Data Science/AI Articles
Data Science

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Published in History of Yesterday

·Aug 11, 2022

Why You Can Only Get Massages from Blind Masseurs in South Korea

A one-of-a-kind law with a noble reason behind it — Massage services are in demand in many parts of the world for they are relaxing, therapeutic, and in some instances, even medically necessary. In South Korea, there is an interesting catch to having massages legally and an even more interesting reason as to why this happens. One can only be…

History

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Why You Can Only Get Massages from Blind Masseurs in South Korea
Why You Can Only Get Massages from Blind Masseurs in South Korea
History

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Published in MLearning.ai

·Aug 5, 2022

Coding Neural Networks in Carbon: Part 1

New language, new possibilities — Google has recently been touting its new language as the successor of C++. It has gone as far as making great strides to ensure that the language can easily be integrated with C++ on top of other features. Sadly, according to the interactions I have had with those maintaining its…

Programming

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Coding Neural Networks in Carbon: Part 1
Coding Neural Networks in Carbon: Part 1
Programming

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Jul 27, 2022

Setting Up Your Linux Machine for Google’s Carbon Programming Language

And printing “Hello World” — A few days ago, Google announced the release of a new programming language developed to be a “successor language” to C and C++. One of the main reasons highlighted is the presence of technical debt during the development of C and C++ applications. As the programming language is new and…

Programming

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Setting Up Your Linux Machine for Google’s Carbon Programming Language
Setting Up Your Linux Machine for Google’s Carbon Programming Language
Programming

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Published in History of Yesterday

·Jul 15, 2022

Does Depopulation Destroy Places?

A simple look at what it has done to a number of places — Recent events such as Elon Musk’s scandal have caused a persistent debate on the population to arise once again. He shrugged off having twins with an employee at one of his companies by jokingly saying: There are serious concerns about what population stagnation or depopulation could…

History

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Does Depopulation Destroy Places?
Does Depopulation Destroy Places?
History

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Published in History of Yesterday

·Feb 21, 2022

What Happens to a Child When Isolated for Over a Decade?

The tragic tale of Genie Wiley — Children are human offspring usually in need of great care to develop properly. Delicate care often needs to go into the development of children just to avoid the problems that may trail them later in life. …

History

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What Happens to a Child When Isolated for Over a Decade?
What Happens to a Child When Isolated for Over a Decade?
History

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