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  • No one should have confidence in a model without looking at the data…

    Tom cat has yet to find Jerry mouse; instead, he has achieved a high training accuracy against training data. Unseen data brings a nasty surprise – the model has only achieved a very low validation accuracy. Is it the fault of the choice of classifier/preditor or an issue with the data? My own sinking I…

  • Writing algorithms for scalability

    The 21st Century is experiencing an unimaginable situation. A lot of data is being or has been collected, but only a small portion of it has been analysed. This means that a large proportion has yet to unleash its hidden knowledge and augment our intelligence. It is true not all data can be easily analysed.…

  • Have we started our own Caves of Steels?

    As we are in lockdown, I have decided to start writing once a month, in this blog.  This unusual starts of the decade has prompted me of a novel written in the middle of the last century,  66 years ago. The Caves of Steels.    The readers may wish to read the synopsis  (Wikipedia: The Caves…