James Martini

Achievement: HAL 8999 – 2/100 Completed chapter 1 of Hands On ML and worked through the exercisesModified yesterdays example to also do both k-nearest-neighbors with both three and four neighbors. Four neighbors was further from the linear regression than three demonstrating that more is not always better. Short list but Ch1 is something of an[…]

Achievement: HAL 8999 – 1/100 Set up virtualenv for HAL8999Installed sklearn, pandas, numpy, matplotlibUnable to install tensorflow since I’m on python 3.7 and the pip installs only work for 3.6 and earlier. I can sort that out later.Read up through Example 1-1 in Hands-On Machine LearningAuthor is a little fast and loose with the example[…]

Some druids apparently wandered by and cast Wall of Thorns in my yard so I spent a good sized chunk of the morning clearing blackberry brambles.  While my hands were busy being impaled by the thorns which unerringly find the weak points in my gloves I got to thinking about some of the things on[…]

Just out of curiosity I started looking into how to get jupyter to display text and math formatted as markdown and latex in output cells. This got into my head when I was looking at symbolic integration and differentiation of functions and how to format the output in a more civilized manner. I don’t have[…]

So far this morning I’ve Gotten jupyter notebooks running natively on my workstation rather than using the linux subsystem as a workaround Learned how to integrate functions in python using scipy Got exporting of jupyter notebooks to html working properly Built a scale model of the terrain around my home town in Unity Gained three[…]

There comes a point when it’s clear that you’re not the central figure in your kid’s life. It’s a good thing. You know it’s going to happen someday. You accept it as a natural part of growing up. The problem is, that moment sneaks up on you when you least expect it and then punches[…]

One of the benefits of coming back to an existing wordpress blog rather than continuing to try to roll my own in github.io is that I can easily piggyback on other people writing plugins to solve the same problems. So far, the Crayon and MathJax-Latex plugins seem to fit the bill. Testing syntax highlighting [python][…]

I’ve been disconnected from social media for two years now. I still occasionally shitpost on reddit but that’s a habit I’ve largely broken myself of. I find, however, that I do need to find someplace to write things down that is both isolated enough from the internet that I don’t get much traffic but public[…]

I don’t know when this phrase entered my vocabulary. The only recollection I have of it is a comment that I can’t remember by a person I can’t recall on a messages board I’m uncertain of: definitely a first world problem. That little phrase so accurately and powerfully put into perspective the minor irritation the[…]

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