Last week my colleague and I spent a week at the ICML conference and presented our work at the Machine Learning 4 Music Discovery workshop. Public speaking is stressful for me, but you can prepare for it. What you can’t really prepare for are the questions afterwards. I thought of possible questions in advance – … Continue reading Two-level Explanations in Music Emotion Recognition: Q&A
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Evernote: my almost perfect productivity tool
I am a big fan of taking notes and having my thoughts and ideas organized and easily accessible. After using mainly pen and paper for quite some time I started to look for a software solution. The main reasons were that I want to be able to search my notes and access them everywhere I am. … Continue reading Evernote: my almost perfect productivity tool
Tensorflow CNN and lime on my own cat & dog images
In a recent blog post I evaluated the R package lime on a regression data set. After this I wanted to go deeper (pun not intended ;)) and use lime on more complicated models such as deep neural networks. I have started collecting cat and dog pictures a long time ago with the idea in … Continue reading Tensorflow CNN and lime on my own cat & dog images
Exploring lime on the house prices dataset
Pretty recently I found a paper with the title “Why Should I Trust You?”: Explaining the Predictions of Any Classifier. The topic of interpretability is very important in the times of complex machine learning models and it’s also related to my PhD topic (reliability of machine learning models). Therefore I wanted to play around with … Continue reading Exploring lime on the house prices dataset
First steps with DaVinci Resolve for video editing
A couple of months ago I took some videos with a GoPro during we moved all of our stuff into our new apartment. I thought it would look especially cool to have a time lapse video of me filling my bookshelf. Before I could share the video, I wanted to edit it a little bit. … Continue reading First steps with DaVinci Resolve for video editing
Find closest date before or after event (MATLAB)
It’s the second time since I have been using MATLAB that I need to find the closest date to a given target date in an array. Of course I didn’t remember how I did it the last time and I couldn’t find a solution that suited my needs on the internet. So I decided to … Continue reading Find closest date before or after event (MATLAB)
Unleashing the beast
As you might have seen in my blog post Unboxing my new PC from a couple of weeks ago, I bought a quite nice computer for doing some basic machine learning / deep learning. In this post I’d like to elaborate on the individual parts I chose for my data science and machine learning computer. … Continue reading Unleashing the beast
Learning Club 16: Genetic Algorithms
Some time ago I published a blog post with the title Know your data structures!. In this previous post I explained how I improved the running time of a genetic algorithm. I promised to go more into detail about other noteworthy things in the code in a separate article since not everything was straightforward when … Continue reading Learning Club 16: Genetic Algorithms
Unboxing my new PC
Here you can find photos of me unboxing my new PC parts! Details on why I chose them will follow soon. Although it might look like a gaming PC (for which works perfectly fine), I use my new PC for data science. Opening all the parcels felt like christmas! And look at all those beautiful … Continue reading Unboxing my new PC
Know your data structures!
Just a few days ago I stated the following on Twitter: Just reduced the runtime of an algorithm from 9 hours to 3 min. by using a different data structure… Know you data structures 🙂 #rstats — Verena Haunschmid (@ExpectAPatronum) May 1, 2017 Since my tweet has been liked and shared a lot, I thought … Continue reading Know your data structures!